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Lake Michigan:
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sweet shots. looks like you got it sweet on lake Michigan. I have been floundering around the north end of Lake superior for the last 2 seasons, and due to geography and poor timing, I would kill for waves like that..... Time for the November Gails !!
Going to go grab some of these on my lunch break:
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edit: it's hard to surf in blowing snow...and it's hard to hold on to a board coated in ice with wet gloves. fucking winter.
... Dude --
I Remember - Your Life is complicated And Not - easy. butt...
Here - on tgr - "f.-ing winter" Is what we search for .
surfing Superior - in November ... ! ? !!
Who do you Think you are : YetiMan?, ( he asked rhetorically ) .
oh.
yeah.
Surf Is U.P. !
eh.
From the West End ...
skiJ
Opening Day. november 8, SkiBrule, Iron River, MI
this thread constantly delivers. that looks so cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjh...e=sharenoembed
Brrrrrr.... But the water is almost 70 degrees warmer than the air w/windchill.
Nice waves! I saw this on the yahoo homepage this afternoon. Way to get after it!Quote:
Originally Posted by axebiker
... hey(,) fellas --
Not to be discouraging, (But) this week's Cold merits some recognition --
yesterday ( Jan6 2014 ), The temperature ranged from minus24F to minus17F, with Chill reported to minus54F ;
I Know for those of you in AK and northern Minnesota ( and the northern Rockies ) this is Normal., but along the south shore of the continental ' north coast ' this is Dangerous Cold.
( Please ) Be safe out there ...
... There is a cliché : ... you are always Warm and Dry ... make it True.
( ski hills - Never closed - will reOpen tomorrow - Wed., Jan7 (2014) )
btw. I love this thread - Thanks. skiJ
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/co...URFLINE-SOCIAL
More... :eek:
It's been good lately. Here are a few recent pics:
Saturday
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a few weeks ago
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Lake Michigan last month:
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and this:
Here's a few more from this last week (photos from Bill Thompson and Shawn Malone):
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shredding
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ripping
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And me...being fat never looks good, but it's warm in cold water (and I'm not kidding, it really is)
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awesome
lots of water moving and many beatings Monday.
Here is a Cory Genovese photo of Dan Schetter.
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Nice shot. It's good to see the UP get some size.Quote:
Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy
Getting into the best part of the year here:
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I like this spot because it's a nice mellow long cruiser
spent a lot of time snorkeling this year....getting to know some of these places better and spending a lot more time in the water has been good.
looking to head out to Superior from the twin cities some time in the next couple of weeks. Do you have any suggestions on areas to check out?
Grand Marais is a neat little town; that whole stretch from Two Harbors to the border is nice. Lots of great hikes.
Stoney point for surfing.
I don't really have 1st hand info on that side of the lake...but really, between google earth and youtube it's not too hard to put 2 and 2 together.
Thanks for the stoke.
I live on the shore of the Baltic Sea...where the conditions are actually pretty similar...or one could say we have smaller/crappier waves in general (even despite being on the shore of a sea instead of a lake!)
Anyway, all these pics and videos make me want to go searching (Lately I've been trying to find protected mini waves for my 145l Surf SUP...everyone here seems to surf on hellish onshores when there's some winds/swell...so I think there might be some undiscovered potential for small waves/bigger board, in a bit protected bays etc. . Still haven't found anything super good but I guess the search in itself is worth it anyway...
I like your attitude^^^^^^^:)
Yeah, if the water is moving there's likely some formation that's handling it properly. Don't settle for the howling onshore if you don't have to....Although, living in that situation I can say sometimes you just want size and the only place with the size is the howling onshore.
The laws of physics are the only thing that matters: it's 8 feet from 180, maybe it'll be 3 or 4 feet on a shore facing 90 with a side wind, maybe that shore has a big headland and there's effectively no wind at that break, maybe it's 12 feet from 180 and it's 3 or 4 feet at a shore facing 120 with offshores.
Or maybe there aren't those wraparounds, and you're looking at 12 foot howling onshore but you wait until the wind quits, or even better: the wind switches. Then you have a few precious hours of the swell cleaning and dwindling...and that can be great too. Apply your mind and search.
^^^Exactly.
There aren't that many good wraparounds though...or there are actually lots of'em but...too much...the coastline is super rugged/"fractal", there's too much every kind of formations to break up the swell. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago_Sea). The rare easy access open spots are quite known, and there the latter case (waiting for the just right moment for the swell to clean up) is the best option. On the west coast of Finland (about 450-500kilometers drive for me = too much for me usually) there are more open sea beaches, and definitely our best spots.
Actually, there are probably quite a lot of unknown spots still, but they are all on the outer archipelago, so you'd need a boat, a very good boat (think about a howling November storm) to reach the outer rocks. Well, maybe Redbull does that some day too :D
In Sweden there's some gems though: http://magicseaweed.com/news/the-hea...n-sweden/7087/ (In Finnish side the waters are shallower and even more rugged...so the new good spots are even harder to find I guess?)
PS. Btw. No intent to "hijack" the thread...so keep the stoke coming - as said I find the lake surf stuff super inspirational!
Here's a Corey Genovese shot of Dan Schetter yesterday:
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^^ That's a pretty nice looking left. Surfing with snow on the ground...The stoke is high among the northern Michigan folks.
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You need to visit New England. My first surf adventure after Columbus Day was a Black Friday at 2nd Beach, Narragansett in Rhode Island. Some younger kids were making a snowman as my buddy and I grabbed waves. I was wearing jeans and a wool sweater under a rented diving dry suit. The kind you can inflate and had some sort of metal device that bruised my chest and severely dung my Aiken (plastic mold surfboard). Good times. Muck prefer the so cackled cold water of California.Quote:
Originally Posted by Long duc dong
One more of me this morning...shot by Garrett Burton:
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^^^^like.
Is surf that size typical in spring?
No, and in fact it would be difficult to relate a sense of "typical", given sporadic and localized nature of waves on the lakes. The setup in the photo happens maybe, if I had to guess, about 20 times from spring to fall. It's very difficult to get into any size here without going full-on onshore gale. The wraparound it takes for swell to clean up takes a big chunk out of the power, and these are already gutless 6 to 8 (at most) second period waves...hence the tandem board.
As far as southern lake superior and northern lake michigan (and in all likelihood northern lake huron as well) the springtime can be a near-total skunk, as was the case a few years ago when there was still significant ice flow until mid June. In that case the usual storms had the usual effects, except everywhere waves were pushing, so was miles of ice. If the water is open, there are consistent (meaning weekly-ish) N and NW storms from late winter through maybe early May or thereabouts.
It doesn't really get going again until early september.....that time being the very best few weeks of the year, with warm water, long days, limited insects, and regular wind storms.
Looks like maybe your breaks are about to get a lot more crowded:
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"My wave!"
From the UP a couple of weeks ago, near Big Bay. It is about waist high, I would have surfed if I had a board. I have always wanted to surf up there.Attachment 211079
wtf are/were you doing in Big Bay?
Big Bay Powell Township Big Bay, or Big Bay de Noc?
If you mean Powell Township Big Bay, it's weird to see any reference to it here because, you know, it's pretty isolated (I guess not as much now as when I was a kid, but still).
It is indeed near Powell Township Big Bay. I probably should not say this, as since you are from the area you might not like me when I tell you, but I have been going up there with my family my whole life, and my mom has been going up for her whole life. She grew up outside of Detroit. We are part of a club up there, you can probably guess the one. It is located at the end of county road KK, the road dead ends at the club gate. I absolutely love it up there, I consider myself very lucky to be a part of it. Some locals don't like us because of how great the land we have is, and I might well feel the same way if I were them. It is the greatest place in the world to me, like I said I've been going up there since I was born. Since I moved to California I have always dreamed of surfing there, and I could have done it this year, albeit in mediocre surf.Quote:
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I can see why you are amazed to see a Powell Township Big Bay reference, it is indeed very remote. A great place to be away from civilization for a couple of weeks. Like I said, I am very lucky to be a part of it. Travis Rice is also a member, interestingly enough. Some of my friends know him although I don't. He always comes up at different times than I do.
I spent a summer caretaking for a family out of Chicago who had a camp halfway between Big Bay and L'anse.
Looks like some serious wind - waves are in the forcast
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Wax up your board Yetiman
http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.s..._waves_to.html
That one ended up killing two people. I got out for 3 waves close to home and had to leave the board tied to a tree because I couldn't carry it upwind. It was pretty intense.Quote:
Originally Posted by F#*k You Cat
My friend, who was a city councilman here and the director of the local chamber of commerce, was surfing another sheltered spot, and posted something on his facebook about being glad to be on shore after some tough surfing, and everyone blew up because the whole town conflated the tourons who got swept into the lake taking The World's Stupidest Selfie with the few of us who surfed that day....he had people excoriating him about going out and surfing "putting first responders at risk" etc. No surprise, he found himself a better job elsewhere this summer. He may not have said anything about that bullshit, but I can read between those lines.
No, not "some locals", every local. Your servants are spitting in your food up there. It's not about jealousy over your land, it's about how almost every one of us has had some negative experience with the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Long duc dong
Anyway, there's nothing less stokey than the Huron Mountain Bilderberg Club and its armed goon squad being assholes to everyone.
So here's something not awful for our stoke thread:
Damn. That renews my faith in the species.
Rad video. “Ever since I got back into surfing, I stopped having nightmares about not surfing”Quote:
Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy
Rad thanks for sharing I love this guy.
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