Whitsun in Hanstholm

Here's a few photos from our last trip to Thy. We had 2 days with something close to epic windsurf. Two days with good wind, big waves and sun :)



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This is from Sunday afternoon just before we got in the water, at this time the waves was still quit small. During our session the waves got bigger and the wind got better and we surfed until dawn... This was the best session of the season until now!



Really like this one with the spay from a pier in the foreground and the lone windsurfer in clear blue water

Monday the wind stated blowing again in the afternoon and within a hour it changed from nearly wind still to gale force. We sailed 4.2 which was our smallest, even though we could easily have sailed 3.7. Here is a few shots from Monday.







It was quite hard to hold the camera still in 16 m/s thus I had to discard most of the photos as they was unsharp.

Surf or Ski

Until now the winter in Scandinavia has been the toughest I'w ever experienced. There has been frost and snow from mid December and there is no real sign of milder weather. Normally we get a few days with snow during a whole winter.

Friday the 12 of February a new snowstorm hit Bornholm and the south-eastern part of Skåne. On Bornholm people was evacuated and most roads was closed until Saturday. In Skåne things didn't look that bad Saturday morning, maybe because the Swedes are better handling these snow-conditions.



With the snowstorm a decent size NE swell was forecasted for southeast Skåne. This was about to become my coldest surf session ever. Air temperature was -2 degree Celsius and water temperature was -1 degree Celsius.



The ice forecast was right, the coastline was not frozen, it was only slush-ice with ice cubes.



If it hadn't been for the slush-ice I think the waves would have been quite good.



What to do when you can't surf because of slush-ice? Go skiing, luckily we brought ski and snowboards :)


Rider: Roelf Hans

The reef was then exchanged with this nice snow ledge.



But where is the lift?


Rider: René Brask

And it was possible the get a few turns


Rider: Vincent Bakker

And quickly we had build a small kicker


Rider: Roelf Hans


Rider: Vincent Bakker


Rider: René Brask

And I ended up paying with a sprained thumb :(

Hope u all enjoy this unusual winter. Europe has been locked inside a freezer. The great oceans gets one big swell after another. And the southern hemisphere gets grilled.

Cheers