He surfed roughly 5-inch early ice Wednesday on Silver Lake. He’s also a 66-year-old retiree skateboarder. “I started sailing in the early ’70s,” said Kimball resident Jerry Sandell.

The conditions for surfing the lake are rare, and are an inherently intense time to be out on the lake. “It rarely blows hard enough,” says Sebastian Hall, a born-and-raised Truckee local also ...

The Great Lakes surf season peaks in fall and winter when the wind creates some of the biggest waves of the year. Surfers clad in thick neoprene wetsuits embrace the cold like seals on the Alaska ...