A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Lunch Counter is the name of the stationary wave located on the Snake River near Jackson Hole, Wyoming; the break is formed as water pushes into a group of submerged boulders, rises up, and folds over. A surfer performs a "takeoff" at Lunch Counter by hiking 100 yards upriver, jumping into the 48-degree salt-free water, drifting backward, then paddling furiously against the current as he's pulled into the breaking wave. 

When the CFPS (cubic foot per second) flow hits 10,000, the wave is about three foot high and 20 foot wide, with an oscillating right-breaking shoulder. Cutbacks, top turns, and other maneuvers can be strung together for as long as the surfer's legs and wind hold out—usually about four minutes. At less that 8,000 CFPS, the Lunch Counter wave is too small to ride; a second set of boulders, located about 30 feet behind Lunch Counter, then offers a larger, steeper, more difficult wave. At 12,000 CFPS, Lunch Counter turns mushy; at 15,000 it's unridable. 

Lunch Counter is usually in top form for just two to six weeks a year, from May to August. The Snake River was first surfed in the mid-'80s, and by the early '90s it had been all but commandeered by river kayakers. 

Snake River

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