A neighborhood friend stopping by for a snack.

More with the waves. I can't help myself. Haven't surfed nearly enough this fall.

Good times and good eats. Loggin days in the woods chasing down large critters with good friends.

Home away from home last week.



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From chest high to knee high peelers, it was myself, the buffleheads, goldeneyes, geese, gulls and eagles flyin overhead and a couple steelhead rolling on the surface in the glassy waters between waves. Damn i love where i live. Obviously it's fun to surf with your friends, but there's something to be said about paddling out on your own and watching it all unfold.




Unbeknownest to me (since i don't own or use a cell phone), the boys were further down the shore, scoring their own. stoke for all.


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Spring surf.


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Minding the ice shelf as we snuck out into the water yesterday morning.

Pretty small lineup.
End of January on Lake Superior. What would you expect.

Winston going left on his McCoy Nugget. If you took the right, you were committed to dodging a few bowling ball size chucks of ice. Better to go left and ride through the rip of Skiddle size ice pellets.

Win grabs a glassy one, as the swell starts to die off.

John with some walrus sized icicles.


All an all a pretty sweet day for the end of january.

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Yet a few more from last Wednesday. Specially dig Liam carving one off the top with style in the bottom shot.





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More from yesterday. This time some shore pound. Pretty tough to convey the vertical height at this point, so you'll have to take my word when i say it was at least 10' and maybe more like 15'. Either way the Lake was showing some fury.


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On track



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Water. Life

Bring it.




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More from yesterday



This shot posted by 'Sage' over at
Superior Surf Club sums up a lot and gets props for sure.



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Loaded up on friday & cruised down the shore in search of some waves...mostly burlyish beach break due to another odd fetch to wind direction and speed ratio. Got a few rides and took some beatings courtesy of the lake before loading back up and continuing on my way down to hunt the northwoods of Minnesota.

A beautiful November morning on the drive down the shore.

And so it goes, we wait and prepare all year to gather during the second week of November for what we call the "Holy Days". I'm sure someone might slam me for calling it that, but there is so much legacy, time, patience, reverence and effort put into our deer hunt, that calling it anything less would be inappropriate.

Just a picturesque sunset the night before opening morning.


Straight up, old fashion wool.


Frosty morning.


Park the ATV's, there are Surly Pugsley's and regular ole mtb's in camp.

Just another northwoods adventure folks


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Foggy damp weekend on the northshore of Lake Superior



And tons of fun at a friends wedding and camping out with little Oskar man, Nance and Lutsen.

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midweek solo session on atypically windless waves coming from a different angle, being pushed in by gale force winds further out in the lake. up in town, winds were blowing in excess of 30 knots, while 100km south the flags lay limp and the fog thick. sun broke through as i finished up after 3 hours of bliss. no complaints here.




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Opening day glide

Goodgawd...107 days is way too long to go without surf!! Damn it felt refreshing to finally get in the lake yesterday. I'm pretty confident that that was the sentiment had by all. An early start revealed typical spring like, borderline surfable conditions, but like many sessions, the conditions improved with every set of waves...and correspondingly, so did the intensity of the driving sleet and snow, but hey, you can't have sunshine and lollipops all the time. Four or so hours later and none too worse for wear, stand by the fire...the wrenching pain of a surfless winter eased by the only medication that could remedy the feeling. peace. e




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Haven't had a stormy one out on the lake in quite some time now and judging by the ice situation, it could be a while before we see some open waters. Off to ski the backwoods this weekend and sit by the wood stove at night.
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