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The Great Lakes are proof of one universal surfing truth. Every single one of us, no matter where we live, where we surf, or where we’ve chased waves around the globe, will, at some point, claim that our homebreak is “as good as any place in the world on its best day.”
Now, how often those “best days” roll around vary based on where your home break is. If you live on the North Shore, you see those A-plus-plus days a helluva lot more often than your average person. Still, Great Lakes surfers know that more than 90 percent of their days spent riding waves are in conditions most would stay in bed for. It’s part of the charm, to be honest.
Surfers on Lake Superior just had one of those days, and we can all assume this because if you scrolled by this clip on Instagram, your first glimpse of the conditions would not have screamed “that’s the Great Lakes.”
“It doesn’t happen every day, but when the Great Lakes turn on, it’s magic,” Surfline wrote. “Blustery but rippable freshwater lines peel along an undisclosed point for a crew of dedicated locals.”
The wind is clearly howling, the sky is grey, and you know it’s bitterly cold. But the waves are so obviously worth throwing on a five-mil just to get a single ride.
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