Iceman surfing Kachemak Bay, Alaska during a cold winter sunrise.

It’s been a while – But that’s the way it always feels when we start surfing again after a summer of the doldrums at my hometown break – Homer, Alaska. After spending a couple cold hours standing on the beach photographing my buddies surfing over the last week I think my SurfAlaska.net stoke has started again.

To break the ice for the season, here is a shot from 10 days ago out on the spit in Homer. There were some inside crushing tubes that I’ll post later, but this offshore boomer with iceman holds the dream and essence of surfing Alaska to me.  Just one stoked surfer out there alone with the mountains and a swell on an unnamed break. Love it while you can, thirty minutes later that sand bar was almost out of the water with the ebbing tide. That’s fine though, iceman was probable ready for a soak in the hot tub, watching the swell, hoping it would stick around for another session before dark.

Stay tuned and keep your fire burning, it’s blowing NorthWest at Augustine Volcano and the tide is flooding the bars.

Let the story telling begin.

Surfing a break near Petrof Glacier in the Gulf of Alaska.

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. With the help of friends at Homer Air we made it over those mountains twice in the last week. One evening session and then a 2-3 day camping trip over the first weekend in May. A couple thousand photos remain to be edited, but I wanted to start sharing the stoke asap.

Recently the founding ideas of SurfAlaska.net — Open sharing of information and building friendships with new surfing buddies in Alaska, has met some resistance. I’d like to make it very clear that I believe if we all get together and share knowledge, resources, and our stoke for surfing the result will be us all catching more waves in epic locations like this. In that spirit, if you are interested in joining us on a trip to Petrof leave a comment below, we rallied 9 surfers for this awesome weekend trip and we hope that next time you can join us.

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.

Fall morning with glassy waves at point Carew in Yakutat, Alaska.

During a week long surf trip to Yakutat this fall we had one partly sunny morning. Not the best waves that morning, but certainly some outstanding scenery!

Nothing happening for waves in Kachemak Bay (Homer) Alaska today.