What do you do with an old board that isn’t wave worthy anymore? Sr. Ed. Stiv turned a cancer infested log into a great backyard bench to hang out next to his fire pit. Philip Gutt turns them into art.

The Brits seem way ahead of the game in terms of electronic publications. Check out Drift an online surf rag and Tweaker a skate version. Both are beautiful to look at with worthy indepth content. So good, I almost wish they did print versions…

Now that this project is a year and half old, we’ve started to look at what we want to do in 2008. First up, we’re looking to increase how many issues we put out a year; the goal is to become bimonthly. It’ll take a little time, but our reader’s poll suggested that [...]

As a reader of wend, you most likely know that I am infatuated with bamboo. This last spring we featured a bunch of bamboo products, but I didn’t include a board from Altarnative because they weren’t ready for a little exposure. They make handcrafted bamboo boards, take a look.

If anyone is flying internationally soon, or even thinking about it, take a look this this article in The Times about how prices can be different if you buy it from a .com or a .mx. Travel booking websites can have many different sites based in many different countries.

I am sure each of you can think of a number of people who would love to have the women of climbing calendar for 2008. Including yourself, and even though we still have a few months of 07 left, you could use it to plan next year’s trips.