#conditions

Near-zero visibility from heavy snow or fog.

Soft, slushy spring snow.

Waves wrecked and made choppy by too much wind.

Rough, bumpy wave surfaces churned up by crosswinds.

A thin layer of fresh snow over a hard base.

A soft wave that spills gently rather than pitching.

A soft, sloppy, powerless wave not worth much.

Hard, annoying ice chunks scattered on the slope.

The surf is exceptional and breaking beautifully right now.

Wind blowing from sea to land — the wave wrecker.

When the surf is going off with insanely good waves.

A quiet gap between sets with no rideable waves.

A very hollow barrel breaking over shallow bottom.

Exceptionally good waves or an all-time great session.

Wind blowing from land to sea — the surfer's best friend.

A wave that breaks all at once with no rideable open face.

Weak, slow, gutless waves with no power or shape.

Waves rolling in powerful and perfect, one after another.

Extremely hard, frozen, compacted snow.

When the surf is huge and pounding.

Ocean surface so smooth and clean it looks like glass.