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 [...]
Alaska fly-out surf adventure video
There’s a knee high wind swell hitting the Homer Spit today. I’m inside working on the computer to that all too familiar tune of water dripping down the rain gutter just outside my window. I can’t complain though, yesterday evening I paddled my stand up board for about 4 hours and easily caught my subsistence [...]
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 [...]
Petrof glacier surf – pt. 1
Let the story telling begin. Years of talking, drooling, hypothesizing, dreaming, thinking, imagining . . Petrof Glacier, so close yet so far away. From Homer this spot is only a 20 minute bushplane flight away. Just on the other side of those pesky mountains that so easily block the ocean swell from hitting our beaches. [...]
Surfing Seward Alaska – March 26th, ’09
A break that you can drive to in Seward? I don’t recall when or where I first heard of this, it sounded a bit mystical at the time. After making the 7hr round trip drive twice for nothing, that reputation was well established. When Mike asked if I wanted to make the trip again, I [...]
Surfing Yakutat, Alaska 2008 – part 4
This is the fourth post reporting on a surfing trip to Yakutat from the fall of 2008. It’s the last couple days, by now we were actually getting pretty used to squirming into that cold wet and smoky wetsuit each morning. The 15 minute walk in the surf booties down to our regular break (Pt [...]
Surfing Yakutat, Alaska 2008 – part 3
As you probably figured out, this is the third post reporting on a 7 day surfing trip to Yakutat, Alaska. Part 2 was the story for Sept 28th. Something happened between that day and October 1st. Or, what I mean is nothing happened, with the camera that is. I know there was plenty of surfing, [...]
Surfing Yakutat, Alaska 2008 – part 2
Day 2: Looking back through the photo files from 9/28/08 there’s nothing for the morning session, must have been rainy and the camera was left behind. I think we surfed Pt Carrew at first light. Back to camp for a tanner crab lunch, cheers Iceman! It’s not so bad camping in the rainforest when you’ve [...]
Surfing Yakutat, Alaska 2008 – part 1
If you search online for information about surfing in Alaska you’ll quickly find that Yakutat is by far the most documented location. It seems that this is a case of magazines and newspapers following each others lead, if there is a published story about surfing in Alaska, it’s probably about Yakutat. There are a few [...]
Heavy freezing spray surf forecast
BARREN ISLANDS AND KAMISHAK BAY WATERS 400 PM AKST SAT NOV 29 2008 …STORM WARNING THROUGH SUNDAY… …HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY WARNING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT… .TONIGHT…W WIND 50 KT. SEAS 16 FT. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY. .SUN…NW WIND 50 KT. SEAS 16 FT. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY. .SUN NIGHT…NW WIND 40 KT DIMINISHING TO 25 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. [...]
Surf Session – October 27, 2008
The 27th, Monday, brought some surprisingly nice chest high waves to Kachemak Bay. The photo above was a quick snap before I ran down the beach with a surfboard, leaving the camera in the car for this session. The photo doesn’t really do the waves justice. First of all, I was too impatient to wait [...]
2008 Homer, Alaska surf season begins
October is traditionally the time that weather patterns begin to shift around my hometown of Homer, Alaska. Along with a bunch of rain, cold weather, and slush, October brings the first real westerly winds that push waves into the Kachemak Bay. After about five months with very very little to no surf, all of a [...]
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