Minnesota is probably the last place you would think of surfing, but a group of diehard surfers is making it happen on Lake Superior in the freezing winter, when the waves are biggest.
Photographer and Minnesota-native John Haynes captured the chilly scene last year and shared some photos here.
Most surfers go out to Lake Superior to surf, two and half hours from Minneapolis.
Picking which day to go is the trickiest part. In order for there to be good waves, there needs to be a very specific type of wind blowing, which usually happens around strong weather systems like snowstorms.
The weather can be so unpredictable that surfers will see an ideal wind forecast the night before a trip and then wake up in the morning to find out that the wind changed and everything is calm.
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