6-8 inches of snow, 10-14 feet of waves

As many of you may know by now, I am very in touch with this lake we are lucky enough to live by. When there are waves or ice or anything else that might be worth seeing, you'll find me at a beach or on the pier or somewhere as close to that lake as I can get. Well with this great blizzard we got 35 knot gusts and a good solid wind from the east to bring the fun to our side of the lake. The waves coming onto shore are huge, they rarely get bigger then 6-8 feet, and every couple months we get 10 footers. This weekend I've spent the majority of the time either sitting at the pier, or drying out at home getting ready to go back down. The waves are big enough to not just splash over the pier, but go over it at times. I have seen huge waves crash up onto the pier and flow right over to the other side. The pier being 12-15 feet out of the water means these are some once a year waves. I'll just wrap it up to avoid this being another huge post filled with my stories. The cops did come, they rarely don't when I'm out on a shoot, I guess its not cool to be sitting out in a car for an hour butted up against the pier with a tripod set up in the car... whatever.

Here are some of my personal favoirtes from 2:00 a.m. this morning.

The 2nd one down there is what it looks like when your lense gets covered in ice and fogs up. God I love my nikon, I was getting splashed on, hailed on, and my lense and camera were litterally frozen over with ice, not a single thing has ever gone wrong with that thing.


If anyone at all reads this before Monday... I'd very much suggest going down to the lake to see the warzone that is the water, its breathtaking.