First Tracks at Boyne Winter 2010-2011!

Even though that white stuff has not yet officially coated our landscape the snow making crew at Boyne is busy getting their slopes ready for your sliding pleasure!  Check it out, maybe we will make our first runs of the season over Thanksgiving weekend.  I love winter!

My New Favorite Song

Sunrise Session

Here is a beautiful shot that was taken on the lake this past week.  I don't know who the surfer is, but the photo is amazing.  The sun about to come up in the background, the surfer just getting to his feet in that moment of thoughtless bliss that makes us so addicted to this endeavor.  I can only imagine how stoked this dude was for the rest of his day.  Only a surfer knows the feeling.

Lake Michigan Surfrider Meeting

This Thursday at the Old Oak around 7:30pm the Lake Michigan Surfrider Chapter will have a long awaited meeting. Anyone is welcome to show up. It should be a little business and whole lot of story. No matter what you will make some new surfer friends, or reconnect with long lost buddies of the wave.  Not to mention feel good about yourself as you help to do your part to preserve, protect, and steward our precious Great Lakes.  Hope to see some new faces!

Great Lakes Storm of 2010

Well, I guess if the NOAA isobar animation was any indication of what was about to happen, this photo sure sums it up. I hope no one sustained any major damage. Gotta love mother nature sometimes!

Isobars!!

Check out these isobars for next few days. They are so close together you can't even read the numbers. Something big is about to happen.

Alliance for the Great Lakes

I some how ended up on this Alliance ad, at one of my favorite Great Lakes point breaks. If you haven't heard of the Alliance they are doing tremendous work here to protect our Great Lakes resource. Check'em out!

Planing Hulls for GL Sliders

I am loving my mini simmons more and more as I continue to learn about its flow. For more inspiration check out www.hydrodynamica.blogspot.com


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"We hope to be able to resolve some part of that controversy now raging between those who believe in miracles and those who are dead set against them...Only one thing will stop the realization of that wish and that is the tenacity with which man clings to old forms because he does not yet understand the new."

Dawn Patrol Sunday 10/03

The biggest Great Lakes enthusiast I know having a moment with his favorite body of water.

All American Quiver for the All American Great Lake

Lake Michigan is affectionately known by Great Lakes enthusiasts as "The All American Great Lake" due to the fact that it is the only Great Lake that lays entirely within the United States. My favorite sliding tools for this special body of water are as follows. 10ft volan cloth Bob McTavish noserider (Pre-Global Surf Industries), 6ft Burly mini-simmons (locally made), and the 5'8" Grunion 9fish retro quad. This seems to cover most of my bases here in the freshies. I didn't plan them to be red, white, and blue, but thought it was symbolic enough to warrant a post. Hope all you GL sliders got some this weekend. See you in the water soon.