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When winter winds blow, Surf Superior
- Article by: Jerry Zgoda , Star Tribune
- Updated: October 14, 2005 - 11:00 PM
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Originally publshed 02/24/03
Greg Isaacson once listened throughout winter nights for the
sound of the surf - "Like shotgun blasts" - reaching Oahu's famous
North Shore.
He is 30 years and 4,000 miles removed from the Hawaiian Islands.
But when the weather is just right, when a northeasterly gale roars
overnight toward a different North Shore and rattles the timbers of
his house on Duluth's Skyline Parkway, he feels it. Come morning,
he peers from his deck through binoculars down the city's hillsides
and measures Lake Superior pouring onto Park Point.
"If it's breaking two feet on Park Point, it's four or five feet
on the North Shore," he said. "It's always twice as big up on the
North Shore."
And if the waves are breaking high at Lester River or Stoney
Point or Beaver Bay, there probably are surfers in the water. No
matter the month. No matter the air or water temperature. No matter
the wind chill, for that matter.
On those days, surfers arrive before sunrise, their boards piled
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