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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A real man surfs in lake Superior.


3 posted on 09/02/2006 3:38:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

"A real man surfs in lake Superior."

LOL! Husband was camping up there in August when we had that week of 100+ degree temps. He camps/fishes up there nearly every year since I've known him and this year was the first time in about 15 years that they could actually tolerate even dipping a TOE into Lake Superior. He admits that there was still considerable "shrinkage." LOL!

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the Big Lake they Call Gitchegoomie..."

She is seriously nothing to mess with, even from the shoreline. ;)


6 posted on 09/02/2006 3:47:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: cripplecreek
A real man surfs in lake Superior.

Not unless he wants to turn into a popsicle in about 10 minutes.

I've been wading -- not swimming -- in Superior as a kid. Even in July, there's only about 6" of halfway-comfortable water on the surface. Below it is a layer of colder water, very uncomfortable, and a couple of feet down, it's freezing cold -- and has been for 10,000 years.

13 posted on 09/02/2006 11:24:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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