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Where’s Gerry?
Posted by: Don on February 1st, 2009Ever wondered what happened to Mr Pipeline? Well, it turns out that he’s been living inland since the early 90′s. A long way inland as it happens.
Gerry Lopez (picture Bend Oregon News)
Last year he published a book of essays entitled Surf Is Where You Find It and, according to a profile piece in his hometown paper, he’s going to be doing a book signing in town on Thursday.
So, if you happen to be anywhere near Bend, Oregon, you should drop in to Between the Covers and pick yourself up a signed copy.
Here’s a grab from the article…
Lopez began snowboarding in the late 1980s, and by the winter of 1992-93, he, his wife, Toni, and son, Alex, moved from Hawaii to Bend, believing it would be a good place to have a family.
“And it has been,” Lopez said. Today, son Alex — a snowboarder, not a surfer, says Lopez — is in his second year at Central Oregon Community College.
As for Dad, when The Bulletin caught up with him late last week, he was hoping the fog wouldn’t hamper his trip to Canada, where he planned to go snowboarding at Blue River, British Columbia.
Thanks for the Gerry update. Recalling that Lopez earlier pilot tested his look-so-easy Pipe style at Ala Moana, and having seen some terrific and even funny footage of that marina break, its irked me that I've never got it on out there. But I'll never ever forget those slow-mo 70's films featuring his Lightning Bolt guns pulling in over and over again at big Pipe, well before it became Backdoor and the Bolt brand morphed into attire. Wonder what happened to Rory Russell, who ripped Pipe then, when BK and a clean bow-legged Hackman, were gracing Sunset just up the beach?
With the amount of perfect waves and insane barrels Gerry would have experienced, it's not surprising that he's spending the 2nd half of his lifetime getting perfection in another one of nature's arenas. Good on him… he's still one of the most stylish surfers to have ever graced our planet.
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