Business & Economy
No surfing on frozen lakes but snow kiters fly high
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By NICK STANEK
Capital News Service
LANSING — Michigan’s winter surfing season is in a freeze with record-breaking lows that froze the Great Lakes. Instead of catching some waves this year, winter surfers across the state will have to wait a few months before catching the next swell. That is because more than 50 percent of Lake Michigan is iced over, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Surfer Ben McNeil hiked over Lake Michigan’s frozen sand bars recently. After he reached the last sand bar, he gazed over the frozen lake he was surfing on this time last year.