Beyond Mavericks – Don Montgomery
ProFile – Staff Photographer, Don Montgomery
Don Montgomery was born in San Francisco in 1947 and moved to Pacifica with his family in 1958. Don was in the first Freshman Class at Terra Nova High School and was part of the first class to complete four years and graduate.
2012 Mavericks Invitational Competitors, Alternates and Heat Selection
THE JAY SHOOT 2012
A Dolphin Tale by Frank Quirarte
Ask a surfer what’s the best wave or best surf he or she had and they’ll probably say it was their very last session. Maybe it was a long ride, a few turns off the lip, a floater or better yet — a barrel. It’s almost like trying to describe what was the best chocolate you’ve ever tasted or something along those lines. It’s all good.
If you’ve surfed as long as I have, it hardly makes a difference anymore. They’re all the best at this point. And it may not have been a particular wave that made it the best. It could have been that all your friends were out on that day or better yet: you met a new one. So many reasons.
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