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How a Bunch of Michigan Surfers (Yep!) Got Together to Save Their Sport

10/26/2021

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This article was originally published on Adventure Journal on October 26, 2021. 

By Drew YoungeDyke
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Imagine being a skier waiting all summer and fall for fresh powder. You obsessively check your forecast apps, check your equipment, wax your skis. Finally, that magic day arrives. You drive to the trailhead only to find a sign that says, “trail closed due to snow.” That’s how Michigan surfers felt this summer when a proposed Department of Natural Resources executive order would have restricted water entry from state park and recreation areas on the Great Lakes during high wave conditions.
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The wildest wilderness in Michigan is the water that surrounds it: the Great Lakes. Michigan’s coastline stretches for 3,288 miles – second only to Alaska in the United States – along four of the five Great Lakes, themselves encompassing 94,600 square miles. A third of Michigan’s more than 100 state parks provide access to the Great Lakes, where full wetsuit-clad and ice-bearded surfers can access waves provided when the wind, fetch, and all the stars align....

Read the full article on Adventure Journal here: www.adventure-journal.com/2021/10/how-a-bunch-of-michigan-surfers-yep-got-together-to-save-their-sport/


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    Drew YoungeDyke is an award-winning freelance outdoor writer, a regional communications director for national nonprofit conservation organization, the Vice President of the Michigan Outdoor Writers Association, a board member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and a member of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers.

    All posts at Michigan Outside are independent and do not necessarily reflect the views OWAA, AGLOW, MOWA, the or any other entity.


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