Stand Up Paddle Video of the Week - 8.28

Scott Dickerson of SurfAlaska.net mounts a GoPro to his helmet and takes us into a Turnagain Arm Bore Tide. With the snow-capped Alaskan mountains as witness, Scott catches a 3-mile ride.

 

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scott Dickerson of SurfAlaska.net is charging waves on the frontier of stand up paddleboarding. Armed with a full suit and hoodie, Scott and a few friends catch the Turnagain Arm bore tide just outside of Anchorage, Alaska.

There are only about 60 places in the world where one can witness a bore tide, and none of them quite as spectacular as this. The Turnagain Arm bore tide can reach sizes up to 6-10 feet and travel as fast as 15 miles per hour.

In a surfer's mind this means only one thing, one long ride.

Scott writes on his blog at SurfAlaska.net:

You’ll never know unless you go. This thought often makes us get in the car for the 3.5 hr one way drive to Turnagain Arm in search of the often elusive boretide. The tides are very predictable, the wave – not so much.

It’s always a gamble with the countless variables that change the wave, and then there’s the wind.  Ever since last fall we have been trying to find the monster wave we saw near the town of Hope. So far this year we are yet to see it. The serpent seems to be sleeping.

On one fine day this summer we did score a sweet, glassy, twenty minute ride with some nice clean faced sections. It wasn’t the double overhead wave we were hoping for, but it was good times.

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