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Welcome To The Great Lakes Mid West Surf Style, Cold Or Not. Top picture is Chris B on January the 2nd 2010 after a super cold surf on Lake Michigan. The picture below this is Pete and Chris also on January the 2nd making their way back to their warm cars. Happy Surfing The Great Lakes. Photos shot by Rusty Joe Medrow. Thanks for the pictures Rusty Joe. Thanks Transworld Surf For The Birthday Shot Out And For The Cool Deal On Us Surfing Lake Michigan. Here is the link, Burton Big Time Burton
ESA contest scores new wavepool in the Heartland, WISCONSIN GOES OFF SURFLINE Featured on Surfline.com in the surf news September of 2007, me and Fred in the summer of 2007 split a chlorinated peak in the new wave pool at Mt. Olympus Water And Theme Park No Salt Surf Style. Photo shot by Rusty Malkemes.
 Here is a link to Eight Forty-Eight - Winter Surfing on Lake Michigan
Winter Surfing On Lake Michigan, NPR interview from the Racine crew from January the 1st 2008.
Part 2 of Wisconsin Goes Off by www.surfline.com but this time we are in Lake Michigan surfing in wintertime on January of 2008.
You can find my daily surf updates for Racine County beaches on the local links also at www.northbeachoasis.com. Happy surfing and enjoy the beautiful beaches of Racine County.  North Beach Oasis - Contact Information.
Check out the first of its kind for the Great Lakes, The Great Lakes Surfer Magazine by surfer Mike Killion of the Chicago area. Recent news, photos, videos and even my daily surf reports for the Racine area. Check out his awesome website an thanks for the photos Mike. Here is some of the southend crew throwing some freshwater around. From top to bottom, Artem Abakumov cracking a cold one, Jim Hoop on a good Lake Michigan leftthander, Rich Nix chuckin some freshwater buckets, Ryan Gerard looking down the line on a fun righthander and Bryan Mcdonald surfing last winter on a very cold right and this picture was also featured on surfline.com last January called  Lake Michigan: glassy, cold and peeling | SURFLINE.COM   Great Lakes Surfer Magazine    
And more from surfline and The Chicago Sun Times on surfing Lake Michigan, Frigid Water, Gray Skies Dont Stop Surfers in Lake Michigan, Chicago Sun-Times SURFLINE
ESA, Eastern Surfing Association Great Lakes website with more contest news and freshwater surfing stuff. ESA Great Lakes District
 Surf Da Lake Racine Rat City Surf Club website by Tom Ward of Racine, Wisconsin.  Photos, forums, videos and pictures of freshwater surfing on Lake Michigan, check it out. Here is a picture from TW of a Racine County lefthander firing. You can't surf on a lake.  index
Here is one of my favorite pictures of TW surfing a good Lake Michigan left in the winter of 2008. Picture was shot by Rusty Malkemes.
You Tube No Salt Surfing Video, Burton Hathaway, Pete Madden and Tim Cole surf Lake Michigan on a winters day. YouTube - No Salt Surfing
More surf pictures, surf forums and much more for Lake Michigan freshwater surfing coming from the New Buffalo Michigan area. Third Coast Surf Shop :: The Great Lakes Premier Surf & Beach Lifestyle Shop!
Great Lakes ESA surf contest sees decent, freezing surf in Gary, Indiana, ARE YOU THIS CORE? | SURFLINE.COM   Bill Lemmons Contest at the south end of Lake Michigan featured on surfline.com in November of 2008.
 Check out  more freshwater surfing stuff from another cool Great Lakes website called  Surf the Lakes - Welcoming Surfer's Everywhere.

Featured on Transworld Surf's website called Feeling Minnesota, Will Wall through the trees on Lake Superior on a good right hander.Feeling Minnesota | Transworld Surf
Lake Superior lefts firing with no one out, photo by Bob Tema of the Lake Superior Surf Club.
For more stuff on The Lake Superior Surf Club you can check it out at Superior Surf Club, Happy Surfing on the lakes.

Now featured on Corky Caroll's website on his cool links page, nosaltsurf.com. Here is the surf legend doing a bottom turn on an good left in front of his house in Mexico on his cow board for us Mid West Great Lake Freshwater Surfers. Thanks for the picture an the add Corky and here is a link to his  website  Corky Caroll.com 

Great surf and good times with you Fred when I was out in California and just an awsome little pad you have right on the beach there in Ventura. Also thanks for letting me ride Dane's board while I was up there is was a cool little treat and we had to do it to your board Dane, actually Fred did it No Salt Surf style along with a few other boards of his and his guitar.

This picture of me was also featured on surfline.com called Lake Michigan: glassy, cold and peeling | SURFLINE.COM  click on the link and check it out. Also this picture was featured on the Transworld Surf's website called Feeling Minnesota. Picture shot by Bob Tema of the Lake Superior Surf Club, surfer Burton.

Lake Superior on fire in December of 2008. Picture by Bob Tema of The Lake Superior Surf Club.
NoSaltSurf.com now featured on  MyAirAide.com - Breathe Easier! A supplement  that will help out greatly with your breathing while surfing or other workout activities and it really works, I have tried it already while surfing and I can really feel the difference. I had recently meet the makers of My Air Aide from Nu Century Herbs out of Michigan City Indiana at my trade show in Anaheim California that I attend every year for my work. Great people with an awesome product, check it out and breathe easier. 
Surfrider Foundation Lake Michigan To help out one of our Great Lakes Vince Deur has put together the first Surfrider Foundation Chapter here on Lake Michigan, check it out and join today to keep our Great Lakes clean. http://www.surfrider.org/MNsuperior/index.html  Just added to The Surfrider Foundation is The Lake Superior Chapter as of 6/2/2009.Here is a picture of a Lake Michigan left. and below that is a picture of Vince Deur surfing on a good lake left an the photo was taken by Cherry Stoltenberg, thanks for the picture guys.. Take care of our Great Lakes and happy surfing.
"A Team" Surfin here in Racine with these last couple of epic spring swells. Seth's A Team van along with Will's surf searchin machine on April the 5th 2009.   

U.P of Michigan taken on 4/27/2009, U.P Pipeline firing, Lake Michigan. Photo by Rusty Malkemes.


Lester Priday the ESA Northeast Region Director bottom turns on his longboard in the wave pool at Mt. Olympus Water And Theme Park in the summer of 2007. Picture shot by Rusty Malkemes. And another one above that picture of Lester surfing here in Racine County with some good waves from last Sunday's surf on August the 30th 2009.Thanks Jim Mcilvaine for the picture. Under this picture is four Great Lake lefts from Alden Wolfe. Thanks for the awesome photos Alden and it was great finally meeting you an surfing with you recently up in your neck of the woods. The first picture is from this last run of waves over the weekend of 8-29-2009 with all the Great Lakes lighting up. The second picture is Alden on a really fun looking glassy lake left on the same weekend.
Dan from Marquette surfing a Great Lake right here on Lake Michigan on Saturday the 1st of August of 2009, an yeah he is trunking it. Also check out his new article from last winter surfing Lake Superior in the new Surfers Journal.
Now featured on You Tube me and TW surfing on Lake Michigan, thanks TW for putting this together. Burton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNulpCj9Cp4&feature=channeltw surfs Lake Michigan part 2
Congratulations to Alec Medrow for winning the Todd Holland surfboard in the raffle this last Saturday evening up at the 21st Annual Dairyland Surf Classic up in Sheboygan. Also thanks for the picture taken by Jason from Surf Express out of Cocoa Beach Florida and Todd for donating the surfboard for this years event. People from right to left Rusty Joe Medrow and his son Alec Medrow, Todd Holland and me. Great times this year guys and see ya next year.   
NoSaltSurf.com now featured on Magicseaweed's website along with my surf reports, check it out at Surf Reports, Surf Forecasts and Surfing Photos
Here is a recent picture that I took on Saturday October the 3rd of Lake Superior firing. Some great times and some great waves to be had by all up there last weekend, look for more to come from this recent swell up on Lake Superior. Just in Great Lakes Go Off on Transworld Surf's website. Me, Will Wall, Ryan and Artem featured on their site surfing Lake Superior from last weekends epic waves. Here is the link and check it out. Also a few pictures below that Mike Killion took that are also featured on the Transworld Surf's website, Happy Surfing The Great Lakes. Burton    Perfect freshwater surf on Lake Superior in the Great Lakes
Here is Jim Mcilvaine on a good lefthander here in Racine County recently surfing on his SUP board. This picture was taken by Rusty Joe Medrow, thanks for the picture RJM.
My good friends back home in California Richie and Zack have been shaping for the last several years and are totally stoked to contribute and shape a few lake boards for a reasonable cost. Valley Lake Surfboards now available. Any questions or to order a board ask for Richie Faris, his # is 1 949 290 1648. Here are a few recent photos of a few of their lake models.
Check out another awesome Lake Surfing website called FreshCoast created by Darryl a Canada Lake surfer.FreshCoast - A place for Great Lakes surfers to connect
Check out us surfing on Lake Michigan recently in the New Year on the Freestyle Watch blog. Thanks again freestyle for the awesome sponsorship. Here is the link. Photos shot by Rusty Joe Medrow and me.    Freestyle - Team Freestyle Blog
Just on surfline.com on their Surf Wire News on January the 2nd 2010  Photo of the Day: Catching A Wave On Lake Michigan | SURFLINE.COM.
Lake Left taken by Alden W on Sunday January the 24th 2010. Still some good cold Great Lake waves to be had in the middle of winter.
Pete, Will and me featured on The Orange County Register's website in Southern California surfing here in Racine Wisconsin on Jaunary the 5th with a good run of some excellent waves for the first part of the new year. Here is the link check it out and click onto the ice picture in the middle. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/086ybwxedN4uj/100x75.jpg&imgrefurl=http://topics.ocregister.com/article/08eI3THevR6Vb&usg=__fIjzu4SvrNcCis8j1in8nI0Bz-k=&h=75&w=100&sz=5&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=zBil9auF_DY_XM:&tbnh=61&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq=burton%2Bhathaway%26hl=en%26client=safari%26rls=en-us%26um=1
Just in, my really good fishin bro and good surfer Daryle Morita from Southern California just put together a new blog out on the west coast for us surfers that are trying to find the stoke between family and our everyday life styles. Check it out at this link.     TEAM DARYL BARYL
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