“We have the best waves on the Great Lakes”: California surfer now hangs 10 on frosty Lake Superior T
“We talk about Minnesota, surfers in Minnesota. The coldest conditions, the warmest friends. I love it here, you know. Like no place else in the world,” said 63-year-old surfer Erik Wilkie.
The problem is you may not know until the day of. Erik grew up in Southern California, where the waves are more predictable. He went to college in Wisconsin, met his wife, and settled down. But at one point, the entire family moved back to California, in part because Erik missed his childhood waves. That’s when he made a discovery.
“We’ve got about a quarter of an inch of rubber right there, a quarter of an inch of neoprene,” he said.“Without that equipment, you got about two minutes in the water, you freeze to death,” he said.
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