Mike McCune surfing Alaska on a winter sunrise.

Sitting out in the lineup we look at each other and smile. Yes, it’s March 20th, we are surfing for what must be the 5th time this week!? Surely, this one is our last session before the summer doldrums, yes, the honorary nod, must be, yep, better enjoy it while we can eh?

IceMan checking the surf in his dawn patrol outfit - Sealskin hat and 'bunny' boots.

Mike McCune surfing Alaska. So close but yet, so far away.

This is a short one. I didn’t shoot a lot of photos this morning before heading into the water, but a couple of these wave shots I know will be appreciated by the surfers out there. Will we ever tire of looking at empty waves, imagining . . . bottom turn, cut back, to the lip, down again, look back, look forward, point it, more speed need more speed, whooosh everything goes dark. aahhh, a new load of refreshing saltwater in the suit to spend the next 15 minutes warming some 60ºF to body temperature.

surf alaska, nobody else is!

In full disclosure.  These weaves look awesome, and they actually are. But experience shows that it is mostly very difficult to find yourself in the right spot at the right time, and often the waves here are going a bit faster than I can keep up with. No reason to not keep trying though.  Sometimes it all comes together.

Till then,
Scott

Surf Alaska!

Just a little something from the archive for a flat Sunday afternoon.

Iceman surfing in Alaska at sunrise.

Finally back at it here on SurfAlaska.net. Thanks for your patience, and welcome to all the new followers.

We just had a couple nice days of surf in Homer, Alaska over the weekend. I managed to catch some photos and some waves. After a pretty long dry spell for me, I was mostly catching waves, but I was sure to create some new content to bring SurfAlaska back out of the flat spell too. Here are a few shots from a session yesterday morning at sunrise. Mike tells us the best waves were before sunrise and before the moon set. I wasn’t there, so we’ll just have to take his word for it. Judging by this morning’s session, I’ll believe him!

Enjoy!

Iceman heading out for a sunrise surf session in Alaska.

Mike McCune surfing Alaska.

Matt James surfing Alaska.

Mike McCune surfing Alaska.

Sunrise surf waves. You can just see Iceman ridingthe second-out wave.

Mike McCune walking out of a winter surf paradise.