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Santa Barbara Surfing Back From Montana

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Santa Barbara Surfing is back in action after two weeks spent mostly in Montana. We were able to document the SUP craze even further as two SUPers glided across Whitefish Lake, Montana. They even sold those huge "Laird" boards in a local sporting goods store, right next to the fly fishing gear. These guys were pretty mellow though, not paddling outside all the time and back paddling the set waves.Another way inland culture has taken to surfing is shown in this next photo of LB demonstrating "Wake Surfing." This was our first time trying the sport which involves "surfing" behind a boat without holding onto a rope. Wake Surfing sadly led to pope's visit to Dr. Ryu for a jacked up knee. You can be in shape as much as you want for surfing, but getting dragged behind a boat with a rope puts some torque in places surfing surely doesn't.

Montana, at least in the summer, is an outdoors person's paradise, and a trip any surfer would enjoy for the scenery, outdoor activities, mellow down to earth people, and empty space. That said, we're glad we're back in Santa Barbara and can enjoy jumping in the ocean with just some trunks and a board (once that ol' knee heals up.)
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Santa Barbara Surfing. Created by Tim Maddux. Continued by Pope.