Scoring
Been too busy living stories to share them lately. But don’t worry, there are some good ones coming. We are, right now, motoring out of Resurrection Bay on another 7 day wave hunt in the Gulf of Alaska. Forecast is looking good, great crew of surfers aboard, looking like another dream coming true.
Helisurfing
Realized a long time dream yesterday. Thanks to Jeff Hoke and the Chugach Powder Guides for making this possible. More photos and story coming along when I get a chance.
Surfing Kodiak between storms
As reported in my previous post, we had a pretty tough surf search around Kodiak Island early this winter with the m/v Milo. The storms were on par with the scenery, relentless and rugged. In our first few days around the island we did get to score a couple sessions when the wind momentarily settled [...]
Surfing Kodiak with Land Rover
I’m writing this from aboard the m/v Milo, It’s dark outside now, all i can hear is the willywahs beating the sides of the boat as she leans over from the force. Earlier in the day we could watch the waterspouts twirling past us, occasionally slamming right into us. When one hits us straight on [...]
Surf in Alaska – October 2nd
Just back form another surf adventure on the m/v Milo. The highlight was a great 6 hour session at a point/beach break that offered 30+ second rides with some sweet steep sections well overhead. The photo above was a set peeling when I first pulled up in the humbug (our 14ft RIB wave scout). I’ll [...]
Barrel sequence photos
The rewards for weathering hurricane force winds on our last m/v Milo expedition were aplenty. Check out this tube ride that Nicolas Sutil, a visiting surfer from Chile, scored on the third day of our exploration.
Teaser from our last AK session
I’m just back home catching up on work, looking forward to sharing photos from our latest surf exploration on the m/v Milo. We sat out a hurricane in the Gulf of Alaska for one day and surfed ourselves silly the next two days. more coming soon
Surfing Seward, Alaska
Couple quick shots from a recent session near Seward, Alaska. We are in the Seward Harbor for a crew change and heading back out for some more surfing and exploring first thing tomorrow.
Surf & SUP exploring Alaska
The m/v Milo arrived in Seward, Alaska yesterday evening after four non-stop days of surf and stand up paddle exploration in the Kenai Fiords National Park and Gulf of Alaska. The surf was better than we had expected and we are stoked after discovering three new spots on this trip so far.
Surfing Alaska – Valentines Day
It’s been a busy season here at Surf Alaska. We are getting stoked to fall into some epic surf adventures as the summer winds down. Until then, here is a little photo report from a session we had last winter, Valentines day in fact. Pretty nice offshore blowing, check out the snow manes flying off [...]
Raven SUP Shoot
Pretty flat here in Kachemak Bay this time of year. Really flat in fact. Take this morning for example – you could see the reflection of the mountains in the water it was so calm.
Stand up paddling the Kenai River
The Kenai River in Southcentral Alaska is famous for fishing. Thousands and thousands of people visit its turquoise waters to fish for record setting king salmon, monstrous rainbow trout and countless sockeye salmon. Judging by the strange looks we received, stand up paddling hasn’t really caught on here yet. Fall is a particularly gorgeous time of year on the [...]
Three Alaskan waves for surfing
Just a quick post with three Alaskan waves that I’ve been daydreaming about.
Sleuthing an Alaskan Slab
This was our second trip with the m/v Milo out to the Gulf of Alaska from Homer. Swell was forecasted to be something between seven and fifteen feet. The first day was windy, the swell was strong but it took us a few hours to discover a break that was sheltered from the wind coming [...]
SUP surfing Turnagain Arm Boretide – Aerial view
A flat spell at your home break can quickly lead a surfer to reminiscing of rides had in bygone times. How about that time we had it pretty good last fall? You know, the sessions with 5 mile rides. The one where you could catch the wave right after breakfast and ride it till lunch. [...]
Surfing Sitka, Alaska
Reporting live from Southeast Alaska. We are in the beginning chapters of an epic five week surf adventure. More details on this trip coming soon . . But to get things rolling here is a report from a couple days of surfing the local in-town break in Sitka, Alaska – Sandy Beach.
Surfing Homer, Alaska Oct 13th
Finally the weather forecast came through and we got a decent WNW wind blowing across Cook Inlet from Homer. Tuesday brought some really nice surf that built to head high and a little better by the time it was too dark to surf. This morning we started well before sunrise and surfed on the Homer [...]
Hello September
We were almost too tired from closing off August with a few straight days of surf to think about another session tonight, but who could resist a scene like this!? Gorgeous sunset surf session on the Homer Spit to welcome September. This is the essence of surfing in Alaska for me - incredible scenery and [...]
Stand up Paddle Surfing Alaska
The surf report between May and September in Homer, Alaska is typically pretty bleak. It’s actually sort of a wonder that we get waves here at all considering that Kachemak Bay is completely sheltered from any open ocean swell. In the Summer this is excruciatingly apparent. The tide has changed here though, with the launch [...]
Surf shot for a flat spell
A swell that was tracking towards Petrof Glacier went off course and diminished spoiling our plans for yet another fly out surf adventure in the wilds of Alaska. Well, seriously, how spoiled can we be? really? Catching up on office and yard projects here today I’m daydreaming about our last trip. Yet to post the [...]
Petrof Glacier surfing adventure
If you have been a regular here at SurfAlaska.net you should be familiar with our fly-out surfing adventures to Petrof Glacier. In a nutshell we pile into a bushplane at the Homer Airport and after 20 minutes of flying over some incredible ocean, mountain, glacier, and ice field scenery we are at a sweet surf [...]
Fly-out surfing Petrof Glacier
The suspense was excruciating. The swell forecast looked strong for three to four days over the weekend but the flying forecast was marginal. For the first three days the clouds were hanging thick around the Kenai Mountains preventing us from flying through them to our favorite fly-out surfing paradise in the wilds of Alaska. The [...]
Aerial photos of surfing Alaska
Working on the computer I can hear the water running down the gutters and see the slush falling from the sky. There is a 12-15ft swell brewing up just on the other side of the mountains that I used to be able to see out my windows. Today the mountains are long lost in the [...]
Aerial perspective on surfing Alaska
I’m excited to be reporting on my first successful aerial photo shoot of surfing in Alaska. I’ve been dreaming about this for a while. Like surfing at night by the light of the moon, there were a lot of things that came together for this – not the least of which was learning to fly [...]
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