While filming for his “Weird Waves” video series, Dylan Graves goes on a seemingly ill-advised mission to hunt quality barrels along the shores of Lake Superior
Last April, Puerto Rican surfer Dylan Graves hopped on a plane to chase down a swell that was predicted to be 10- to 13-feet at 7 seconds. For a veteran storm chaser like Graves, you’d think that means he set offfor a thumping East Coast sandbar or a reef-fringed Caribbean isle able to handle sizeable swell. Instead, Graves’ flight was heading to Minnesota—the shores of Lake Superior, to be exact—over a thousand miles away from the ocean.
For the past couple years, Graves has been sniffing out the weirdest waves on planet earth for his video series “Weird Waves”—including those that exist in rivers or lakes. “I always thought it sounded crazy to fly to the middle of the States and find good waves there,” says Graves. “On paper, that idea sounded really interesting.” So when local lake whisperer Burton Hathaway rang up Graves and told him the mother of all lake swells was about to slam the shores of Lake Superior thanks to Winter Storm Xantos, Graves grabbed his boards and the warmest wetsuit he could find and jumped on a plane.
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60 Years Ahead
We had a whole plan for this year. Funny, right? Surfer's 60 year anniversary volume was going to be filled with stories nodding to SURFER’s past, with cover concepts paying homage to the magazine’s most iconic imagery. Our new Page One depicts something that’s never happened in surfing before, let alone on a prior SURFER cover. And our table of contents was completely scrapped and replaced as we reacted to the fizzing, sparking, roiling world around us. In other words, 2020 happened to SURFER, just like it happened to you.
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The Art of Being Seen
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