[wallorcrawl]

At long last a GG trip report from the fringe. Satan is tricky you've got to stay alert; write some more GG you've got a unique and compelling style!

[Slugman]

Watch this instructive video about log safety....

[joker]

Fun report about a serious event. Glad you merely got a message rather than something more life-altering! I like to remind myself a bit of potential for problems by pondering how those logs got flung so far up beaches, often well into the plant/dune barrier at rear. Water is an amazing substance - seemingly so yielding, yet so powerful. When I checked out some familiar coast in Gloucester MA after the "Perfect Storm" of '92, I saw that two cabin sized boulders had been shoved about one hundred yards along a granite shelf far above the normal high tide line. I was recently down on the OR coast, and when walking Bullard's Beach around high tide with decent sized waves breaking on shore, I was careful to keep my clueless young dog well up at the top of the beach with me instead of letting her roam down around the stray logs that were getting licked by the waves (and rolled now and then).

[Malachai Constant]

If you are a camper, kayaker, or rafter you know damn well how strong moving water is. As we used to say, "those logs did not walk up there".

[tmatlack]

Thanks GG!! I am still recovering from some deep lung flu/pneumonia 'ish and your story generated some great horse snort laughs complete with phlegm, etc. Woke up my wife, I believe. Next time you are in similar situation, try bringing your headlamp or flashlight. Nothing gobbles illumination like a black and angry ocean. It will make you feel small all the way into your pimpin' boots. We are glad you are alive. We are more glad you could make us horse snort about it. Tom

[wolffie]

Friend of mine witnessed a helivac of someone whose pelvis was crushed by a beach log. I once casually stepped up onto a "small" log "just to keep my feet dry" near the high-water mark -- the incoming wave was only a few inches deep -- and immediately found myself face-down in the surf, with that log floating nearby.

[FungiFan]

[Sallie4jo]

I'm glad I r ok..vs a bad news story...and so important to share these OMG stories. Too often...we forget who mother nature is! Thank you

[Ski]

I suppose that in the dark without a headlight you weren't able to read the signs posted that say "Beach Logs Kill!" Great report. Glad you were able to survive (with mascara intact.) Good idea to stay up off the beach at Kalaloch in mid-winter except at low tide. I imagine you were a bit north of where these logs were being tossed around in the surf. (* be sure to have the volume turned way up when you click on that link.)

[Snowdog]

Hey GG- we finally got to meet at the xmas social this year- And if I recall, this was not your first run in with beach wood, amirite?

[Roly Poly]

I'm glad you shared your story. I very very rarely frequent oceon beaches so I did not know about the dangers that your story described. Now I know! And there is news today about two women killed while digging for clams. So thanks again for sharing your story. It was very educational.

[BigBrunyon]

Be careful out there http://www.king5.com/article/news/local/2-clam-diggers-perish-in-the-surf-on-washington-beaches/281-514372494

[tmatlack]

Last weekend at Kayak Point County Park between M-ville and Stanwood there was a 9 plus hi tide pushing up into the drift logs. Right trekking pole in ocean; left ski pole fending off caving clay cliffs. No bueno. Time to go look for snow geese and swans on Fir Island. Tom

[MojaveGeek]

We used to love those "logs in the surf can kill" with the pic of the panicing kids running... but they don't seem to be there any more? I certainly have some old photos of them! My "beach log at night" experience was not as scary as yours (must have been terrifying). Walking near Mosquito Creek at night and headed back up the beach, light drizzle and quite dark, we were walking toward a large log. It suddenly raised its head and gave us the evil eye. Very big sea lion. And seeing as we were between it and the water... we moved out of the way fast.

[Seventy2002]