...good waves, cold water....
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...good waves, cold water....
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Unreal, I can't even believe this is MN.
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1230696127
I've seen some PHENOMENAL surf conditions on Lake Superior - and I don't even surf!
I have surfed on Lake Superior...in a kayak. Lester River, I got fucking hammered inside and got dragged up onto the rocks. It was rad. When they are coming every 5-7 seconds nonstop, it gets hard to escape. :eek:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/...e5f545.jpg?v=0
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The "other" kind of surfing on Lake Superior near Houghton, MI.
Great pics guys. I grew up on Lake Superior, but can't imagine surfing it...the waves come in so close together!
so sick! can't say i ever thought of MN as a surfing locale
This is unbelievable- Lake Superior, Marquette MI-
http://www.lakesuperiorphoto.com/lak...s/_MG_0967.JPG
Some worthy photos here and serious stoke as well:
http://www.lakesuperiorphoto.com/lak...slides/bw4.jpg
These guys snowmobiled in 10 miles then rappeled down a 500 ft dune then surfed ice free waters-in zero degrees F temps last week-
story here:http://www.lakesuperiorphoto.com/lak...009/index.html
This photographer has some excellent stuff of the great lakes, best IMHO
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/16...6superior.html
Decent article in the NY Times.
Lester River! I grew up there. Watched some people unexpectedly start wake boarding on an overturned 8' sailboat down there one summer day. The wind switched from the northwest to the south and the lake went from little ripples to 4 ft whitecaps in about 90 minutes. I ended up helping them get to shore. They were pretty exhausted by the time I reached them . They had no clue how fast that lake can change on you.Quote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
Good windsurfing waves can be had frequently. But surf waves, those are usually reserved for November. You've got to be one crazy mfer to get out there in those conditions.
Looks fun and all but.........Quote:
Originally Posted by aquableau
damn thats COLD :eek:
my hat is off to you guys
Exactly where near Marquette is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by aquableau
...and is there any way to get to that Dunes spot without the deathmarch or a friend with a boat?
Is there enough surf there often enough to support a Surf shop in the area? Is there one already?
Not that Im looking to get in the bus. Just wondering where someone would buy a surf board around there?
Bumping this because I'm having an eve with Three Philosophers from Ommegang and wishing I were back in da yoop.
Grand Sable Banks Grand Marais MI, a couple hours east. Family is from there. That spot is way down the snowmobile trail at the log slide but you can access the east side pretty easily. A couple times a year snow actually sticks to the bluff. That water is cold in August!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
Huckin eh,Quote:
Originally Posted by Huckin eh?
There usa surf shop there I used to rent from them when I went to school there. The name of theahop is casualties skate snow surf. They were really chill guys and had a lot of superior surfing. If you are planning on going up there usually the best place to surf is presque isle at the end of the loop (its a big arching bay so you can catch wind swells from NW to NE). Since I didn't have too many ways to transport a board up there and it was so close to campus that was the extent to my experience up therei
This is what I've been up to lately:
laying around
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standing around
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milking it
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dealing with frequent cases of the one-mores
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not winning any style contests
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yup, definitely not winning any of those
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experiencing ice cream headaches
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"brah! I can fully charge b/c of my ice hairhelmet brah!"
CORE!!!!!!^^^^^^
rog
As my fellow Minnesotans and I would say....Quote:
Originally Posted by YetiMan
Hard! Hard! Hard! Hard!
So badass!
Where are you at on the north shore? Secret spot?
it's my mom's house in the Marquette MI area. I benefit from staying out a little longer and being a bit bolder (hood off) b/c there's a warm shower waiting.
I started surfing in Washington, then I came home with these new surfing eyes and saw lefts happening in front of this house and just about shit bricks. I can't express what it's like to be here and finally making it happen. It's a longstanding dream realized.
fucking love it. nuggets are nuggets. specially sweet when off of 99.999% of the worlds surfers radar. so cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by YetiMan
rog
Is that an ice yeti? that's dedication, nice work.
The other day when it was -10f....I almost went and got my stuff but it was late in the day and the idea of going in the water by myself at 10 below after dark seemed sort of foolish.
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pussy:D
rog
Same spot...pretty much shut down for surfing for a while.
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This was a few hours ago. I was ordered out of the water by police, who threatened to charge me with "whatever they could" if I surf here again because it's "an industrial area and a shipping lane" and the only places I can "swim" are at "designated bathing beaches".
Honestly, I'm pretty upset about this. I haven't been able to surf for 4 months and life has been very difficult and I struggle with major depression. This is the one thing I really enjoy these days and these motherfuckers are trying to lock me up for it. It hurts nobody. I do my absolute best to live a clean, sober, moral lifestyle. I'm good to my neighbors, I don't drive like an asshole, I do my very best and fucking life is hard. This is sort of my "one thing"...and these cocksuckers call the police about it, and the police don't use their judgment and blow it off. It wracks me, and I'm pretty upset tonight.
Tell em to pack sand.
Lake FUCKING Superior?
BEAT IT FUCKING HAOLES!!!!!!!
Yeti: Don't let the man get you down. Keep surfing.
this is turning into kind of a shit storm. the newspaper is involved, I'm going to be on TV tonight, emails with city commissioner and police chief. I'm trying hard to stay on message and gain something for surfing here.
This what I wrote in response to the newspaper publishing my thing in the police log:
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This is trite amusement for many, please know that I understand that, but I want to find a way to briefly communicate how important this issue is to me.
First, the officer was polite, professional, and earnest; I respect him, his job, and his department. He patiently phoned this in to a supervisor and followed whatever departmental guidance was available to him. It's my understanding that the major issue with surfing in that area is, essentially, that people call 911 about it, and that call volume produces a workload they would like to avoid. They would prefer to avoid it by way of me not surfing, I would prefer to avoid it by people minding their own business and ceasing to report my safe and legal recreation to the police. Failing that, I would like to avoid it by the police recognizing me, my vehicle and board, and knowing as an agency that my paddling a surfboard is safe and legal, and not a police matter...and all reports should be treated like any other unfounded, mistaken report of a safe, legal act.
More though, I have a pressing need to communicate something else...I am not Jeff Spicoli or Gidget. I am a 35 year old veteran of 14 seasons of wildland fire, fire-aviation, and wildland fire dispatching. I made a difficult decision to quit firefighting after the "Iron 44" helicopter crash killed 9, and the "dutch creek" incident killed an 18 year old on his first fire, this in a season when my arthritis was reaching a level that made digging and cutting fireline agonizing. It has been a long, difficult road of nursing school, crewing a ship in the pacific northwest, and driving long-haul trucks to get back to my hometown of Marquette and start over. In some very traumatic and stressful times reconciling my depression, arthritis, and PTSD, surfing has been more effective than any other therapy.
Surfing, usually alone, in the big, powerful, frigid water of the north Pacific for years while I lived on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington was my meditation, my physical therapy, and my escape from a difficult life where I struggle with depression and chronic pain. It remains all of those today. I get a sense of relief and rejuvenation when I'm paddling that surfboard that is unlike any other thing available to me. It is physical, psychological, and spiritual therapy. When it's treated as some sort of trifling amusement it saddens me to my core. When people want to make it a police matter and have me removed from the water it saddens me to my core. Like many, I'm barely making a living in Marquette while I search for a better job. I live a simple, sober, and ethical lifestyle; I genuinely want to always be on the right side of the law, on the side of justice and decency. What have we become, as a society, when my innocent, harmless, therapeutic outdoor recreation is subject to police monitoring?
I hope you will read and understand this, or perhaps publish it for others to see. This is an issue close to my heart and I'm begging you to handle it with respect.
This got passed around a lot, and a city commissioner asked if I wanted to have a statement read into the record at the next meeting so I wrote this:
hopefully this all dies down soon.Quote:
I take it for granted that there is a natural, longstanding right for people to freely access navigable water at their own will. This Public Trust Doctrine has been passed down from the Roman empire through the magna carta and into the vast majority of modern civilizations. At the same time, there is a great institutional momentum toward identifying and eliminating risk, even the perception of risk, in these modern times; thus, some conflict is inevitable. I just hope we can all take a moment to clearly mark the line between what decisions are publicly regulated and what is left solely to the judgment of legally competent adults. I believe an adult's choice to challenge nature, be it climbing, or skiing, or diving, surfing, hiking, skydiving...whatever...is beyond that line; I wish to clarify and highlight that line so the process of getting out to enjoy these activities isn't stained with bureaucracy, or ever mistaken for criminality. The underlying principle is that there are unknowable gains to society that come from people having these experiences on their own terms. There are unquantifiable levels of personal growth and strength and wisdom that ultimately branch out to benefit everyone at large in a huge variety of subtle and intangible ways; if we start eroding free access to nature, even (or perhaps especially) challenging aspects of nature, we stand to lose valuable parts of our collective human spirit we can't even adequately describe.
If the commission feels an adjustment is needed, I support any needed adjustment(s) in protocol, policy, and/or procedure which would also allow unabated access to the shoreline for surfers but also allow dispatchers and/or officers a streamlined process to efficiently disregard complaints of surfing with an absolute minimum of workload for officers and dispatchers.
Yeah! The lakes belong to Vince!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Vince
Work through this. You certainly have more dedication than me, but if that is th ebest wave around, fight for it. NYC cops once ordered me out of the water and off the beach (that Perfect Storm swell was sick). When I was running back up the beach at one point I told them they could arrest me later or paddle out after me now, because I was headed back out. They never even stepped off the boardwalk, even though the water line was 50 yards away. And they did not stick around to arrest me either. I guess they had some law enforcement to go do.
Well done yeti. Well done!
amen...
Vince - you're only going to find people to beat it with in your own lineup you gaper
maholo you haole biter.
sweeeeeeeeet
That sucks. Hope it resolves successfully and quickly :)
years ago in a big summer "storm" aka a couple foot waves it was a shock going to Lake Ontario in the hopes of body surfing to find the beach closed and police/life guards turning people away.
Crazy...Quote:
Originally Posted by YetiMan
Keep fighting the good fight. Hopefully this will get resolved the right way.Quote:
Originally Posted by YetiMan
As to some of those shots, wow! I didn't know it got that good there!
I think this was my last ride of the day. I'm in the background riding...don't know the paddler in the foreground. I took a pretty good beating or two out there today, but got my share.
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there have got to be more photos...may be a few days before they start showing up.