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Get pitted
The Wedge, Newport Beach, California
Still from the original video by FOX 11 Los Angeles
A FOX 11 crew came down to Orange County in 2002 to shoot a weather story about the swell and stopped Micah Peasley, then twenty, as he came out of the water at the Wedge. What they got back was him describing the barrels in his own vocabulary, so pitted, wapaah, which ran on the news and then spent the next two decades going around as one of the first surf clips to go viral before anybody used the word. He told the same station fifteen years later that he had been seriously faking it.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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