photos by Schtevey B
You know somethings’ wrong when you go to load your boards on to the car before dawn and there’s ice on your hood. Yes, I know cold water surfing is all the rage, what with Alaskan waves looking like Barra and warming systems in suits, but I can’t quite get used to the idea, yet. Maybe it’s that I was finally able to wear a pair of pants, only yesterday, for the first time in six months without sweating profusely1.
Surf hermano Stevey Bissonnette has a wickedly inspired set from last weekend’s foray into cold water surf: Big Waves and Cold Days: Full Report. Talk about inspiration. whoa. and some serious size in a few shots. The photo set is definitely best viewed full screen large.
For those of you not familiar with Steve. He’s a design/techie who lives in Montreal and when he’s not pulling weekend work duty he’s hauling ass down the eastern seaboard to hit up hidden surf gems. This guy has probably been in the water more this fall than I have and I live 15 minutes from my break and the water is 70 degrees2.
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Ha – thanks man. It wasn’t quite as painful as it looked but changing into a 5/4/3 in the nippy morning air certainly wakes you up! Getting out of one is worse.
Check out other peoples shots from the week – just crazy:
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Nice talk Ed!