In life, few things can be better than, with friends, filling the car with things, and getting ready to camp for a few days somewhere in the world where a perfect hidden wave breaks, where no one goes.

No cell phone signal, no major roads nearby, nothing but boards, friends, and basic needs met: food, a fire, and a few beers.

Like much of what Christopher Herold does, this trip was rootsy. Even though he shares Mason Ho and JOB's passion and dedication for tubes, his coverage doesn't have pro photos, pro videos, pro quality; but what part of the story is lost with the lack of quality in the lens, is made up for with the storytelling and the soul.

One can imagine that what happened was as good as good can be.

This was a Martian trip in the middle of the Chilean desert. “There were five of us in the van and we stayed there for five days. We took the van full of stuff, with tents, two large board bags, fins and fishing material, vegetables, fruit, beers… We took everything, the whole pickup truck full of stuff,” Herold told DUKE.

“The first few days the sea was really big, a little rough, but the last few days it got better and better, until the last one was the most perfect, incredible. Alone in the water, magical, magical,” he added.

To add a bit of mysticism, Herold explained: “The night before that, the stars looked out of alignment, very beautiful, and with UFOs, something that can’t be explained in any other way. Because they were going up and down, to the other side. They turned the lights on and off. They went crazy. At night there, it was super magical, in the middle of the desert.”

“Then that sound came out, kind of magnetic (he sent the sound via WhatsApp)… Crazy! It was a really good experience, we ran every day for three, four hours, we ran at least 15 or 10 tubes each. Very, very good,” he concluded.