Aside from the crazies doing the Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day, Lake Michigan manages to slosh around icily and relatively devoid of humans throughout the cold season. And then there are the surfers...

Check out our pal and Great Lakes surfing correspondent Burton Hathaway on TV in Chicago. Yeah Burton, keep ripping that icy water!

Corona’s Dairyland Surf Classic has become the largest gathering of freshwater surfers in the world.

TransWorld SURF's Great Lakes correspondent Burton Hathaway breaks down his Great Lakes surfing experience.

In Midwest surf news (yes there is such a thing) the Chicago Parks District decided to open a few city beaches up for the sport of surfing after many years of them being closed after a tragic multiple drowning...

While most of us get excited for summer's warm water, bronzing beauties, long days, and south swells, those hardcore Great Lakes surfers just aren't into it...

Thanks to Mike Killion from www.greatlakessurfer.com for the photo. Pray for the ice to thaw!

The south end of Lake Michigan—Hammond, Indiana to be exact—thaws out just long enough for a local crew to score a fun and super glassy surf. All photos: Mike Killion/Great Lakes Surfer Magazine

“It’s warmer in the water,” said Markus Barsch, 21, a tree trimmer from Ashland, Wis., and one of a dozen surfers who had shown up to shred on a 20-degree day...

December 15, 2008 saw epic conditions on the North Shore. Not that North Shore—the North Shore of Lake Superior, just north of Duluth, Minnesota. Photos, video, and interview...