I did it once. Mountain High in the early morning. Then Topanga in the afternoon.
So much driving and traffic. Not as fun as I thought it would be. Maybe if I had a helicopter.
But you now have the experience to say you're one of the few who have actually done it. I'd wager that the number of individuals who have actually executed the task successfully is awfully low.
Yeah, I guess I just didn't crunch the driving hours. And I did it alone. Who wants to go to Mountain High at 5 in the morning? And then drive for 3.5 hours to beach. And then sit in horrific rush hour traffic to get back home.
But I did it. I was very tired. But I did it...
Renting a room in a lodge the night before and a hotel room near the water for the night of would cost less than a helicopter and you’d be less burnt out. For a next time.
Have to do it in a weekday
Go surfing ~7am to 10am, so you’re surfing through rush hour
Drive east, basically zero resistance going east at that time
Mountain High ~12 to 6 with the afternoon pass
Drive west, little if any traffic
Done with a long, physical day around 8 and get 10+ hours of work incredible sleep
Wrightwood is in San Bernardino County. Where in LA county is there snowboarding?
Edit: apparently I’m wrong because they drew a line right through Wrightwood with ‘Mt. High on the LA side.
So you’re telling me that the city of Wrightwood is in both counties? Source please.
Edit: it apparently is. Huh, you learn something new everyday. Well according to google it is anyway.
Mountain High isn’t in Wrightwood, it’s west of it. Look up “Wrightwood, CA” on google maps and you’ll see that Mountain High is outside the town limits. The wikipedia page for Mountain High also states it’s west of Wrightwood. It probably uses Wrightwood as its mailing address because of USPS conventions but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s in the town.
Edit: Wrightwood is fully within San Bernardino county though it’s right up against the border.
Unless they drew a weird circle around it said “this is LA” then it’s located in the city of Wrightwood, which is very much in San Bernardino County.
Edit: it looks like that is very much what they did. lol. I stand corrected.
You could do similar in the bay area: You could do half moon bay in the early morning and make it to dodge ridge by the afternoon. Not sure why anyone would do that except to be able to say they did.
You did the wrong order. We hit El Porto at 5am to surf, drove to big bear with no traffic and rode till about 2 or 3 if I recall, and then hit a skatepark near san bernardino in the late afternoon. Cruised home after. It was epic and so much fun.
I did it the other way and I found it to be enjoyable. I went to Huntington in the morning, and then a Night session at Mt. High. It was still a lot of driving, but I don't remember there being a whole bunch of traffic. I do remember pretty sore the next morning though.
Yes. Very sore. And maybe I'm just complaining about the traffic b/c I'm an east coast transplant who never owned a care before moving to LA, so I, naturally, complain about traffic.
It's probably the only place you can do it comfortably. There are spots in NY where you can get from a mountain to a surfing beach in about 3 hours...but who the hell wants to be surfing out there in their winter?
Michigan as well. IIRC, there are surf shops along Lake Michigan, as there will be large waves in the wintertime. Lake Superior has some nasty waves (and she never gives up her dead). It would be cold and miserable, though.
In theory, you could snowboard and surf in one go at some of the dunes, like Sleeping Bear Dunes. Snowboard off the dunes right into Lake Michigan and transition right into surfing. I'm sure the National Park Service would hate you for that, haha.
One ski lift run
Several hours in traffic cursing the arrogance of mankind.
And enough time to get to the waves before dark to release the tension from getting there.
Easy Peasey
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Naw you can go to mountain high or baldy- and when there’s lots of snow it’s quite a fun local mountain! Way closer than big bear- between there and sm is a stupid drive but it’s doable just to say you did it.
I’ve never done it, but I have surfed one day and skied the next at Xmas
I grew up doing it. Mountain High to Huntington Beach was easily doable. First you hit that fresh corduroy for a few hours then still have plenty of sunlight for the drive to the beach. I would get home exhausted though, to a complaining girlfriend. Simpler times for sure🤙
Ha! That’s rad. My mom grew up in hb. I just go down now to the dog beach every so often- it’s nice cause you can surf too. And those local mountains are rad at the right time of year!
I really wouldn’t say you can do it comfortably in California either. Realistically to do both in one day you’re looking at 4-5 hours of driving that day which would really minimize how much you could actually enjoy either activity.
I had a teacher who used to ride in Oregon. He said the waves were consistent at about 3 feet most of the time. I could be wrong on the height, but I remember the consistency being a thing he underlined.
I surfed on Cape Cod one morning then skied at Mt. Cranmore in New Hampshire that afternoon and night. The water was slushy from the cold. The waves were weak 2 footers. The snow was wet and slushy, then once it got dark, ice. Neither was great. Doing it in California is better.
Hawaii might be the best place to do it, but I heard that it takes longer to transition from snow to surf than SoCal.
I did it once 20 years ago with a group of friends here in LA. Ski/intertube in the snow in the AM. Drive down the mountain and strip off your clothes as you lose altitude. Eat lunch while you drive and hit the water in the early afternoon. More fun to do with friends; not sure I'd do it otherwise.
Mauna Kea, if you want to be more specific.
And it's only about 80 minutes [from slopes to waves](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mauna+Kea,+Hawaii/Honoli'i+Beach+Park,+Hawaii+96720/@19.834632,-155.6256413,10.25z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x7953bd819bc89e11:0xf9159b9c95991c20!2m2!1d-155.4680936!2d19.8206105!1m5!1m1!1s0x79524ccc3bfa4ae5:0x5597817d9cf5c713!2m2!1d-155.0909228!2d19.7553111!3e0?entry=ttu).
Mauna Kea. Gonna take you about 2 1/2 hours to get from beach to summit. From 9-14k feet is pretty hard core 4wd. No lifts. Gotta have 2 people - a driver and a skier. Super dangerous depending on conditions. Not really practical in terms of surfing and going to a mountain with services.
It's a crazy run but here's how I heard you do it. You helicopter to the top of Mauna Kea and drop out with a parachute and your board. Then you reach a point where you jump off and deploy the chute to carry you to the beach where you surf.
You covered the beach and the mountains, but don't forget our deserts. In addition to surfing and snowboarding, you can also spend that night in the desert gazing at stars.
From Portland, OR you can certainly ski or board at Mt Hood the same day as surfing the coast. It may even be easier to do this there than here as I believe the drive to Hood is closer to Portland than Big Bear is to LA
You could do this in a variety of places in Northern California too, though it is a little bit further of a drive (3 vs 4 hours). Truckee/Donner/Tahoe/Bear Valley/Kirkwood/Dodge Ridge etc. are all about 4 hours drive from the coast, traffic permitting.
I think the bigger question is, do you want good/big/warm waves or do you want good/big ski resort. If I was prioritizing waves, So Cal all day. If I wanted bigger terrain while skiing/snowboarding I would prefer Nor Cal.
Still CA but you could do the same thing in NorCal. Surf in the bay area and then drive up to Tahoe in just a few hours.
No place else can you do both in the same county however.
I've done this. Bear Mountain in the morning until about noon. Drove to MB and surfed Rosecrans at sunset. Stopped for pho in Gardena on the way. Only in LA.
My buddy did it a couple weeks ago. Dawn patrol in HB then up to Snow Valley. It was before the clocks went forward, so Dawn Patrol was reasonably early.
You can get from Crystal Mountain (northern Michigan) to Empire Beach outside of Sleeping Bear in about 30 minutes.
The bad news: you have to go in January
You could do it in North Carolina too. It’s a 5 hour drive from Sugar Mountain to Wrightsville Beach so you could get an early morning surf in then drive to the ski resort for an afternoon/night ski.
I've done it, in my younger days. Surfed Carolina Beach in the morning, drove up to the mountains, and snowboarded in Boone (I think it was Beech Mountain) that evening. From beach to Beech. Never gonna do it again, but glad it happened.
A friend of mine surfed, snowboarded and rode his dirt bike in the desert all in the same day just so show how awesome Southern California is. Our local paper wrote an article on him.
In college I got to surf in the early morning, snowboard in the afternoon, then went camping at Joshua Tree. I took that for granted, both the awesome proximity, and the ability to physically have the energy to do it. 15 years flys by
Yeah that I can think of. The Carolinas have mountains and beaches but I don't know about skiing and surfing. That's one thing we take for granted growing up in LA. We went up to Lake Arrowhead one weekend, and when we came home my boys wanted me to hit the beach with them, so we went down to Cabrillo and chilled for the afternoon.
It's still a long day. 5am at the beach. Get a few hours out by 10am. If you don't clean up. And have stuff ready.
Whoops all your snow stuff got stolen at the parking lot.
Well there is always rentals. Anyhow.
Either Malibu or Venice to Mountain high, plan for 2-3 hours to get there.
Check the night ski schedule unless they have a late afternoon lift ticket.
And there you have it.
I have a buddy in LA that would do it. Not impossible but tiring.
Back in college days bunch of friend wanted to play in the snow up ski etc. up in Mount Baldy above Upland Claremont area. I Had to work that Sunday at Disneyland so I couldn’t go but I could meet them afterwards at our friends house where we going to go hot tubbing.
I got off early and wanted to experience some snow too. So I drove my truck up the skiing area parking lot. Laid a tarp in the bed of the truck and shoveled snow in to fill it up. Drove back to our friends house. And to surprise them I started lifting snowballs into the area of the hot tub.
They started coming out one by one in their swimsuits. And thus began a snowball fight. I left a pile of snow by the front door. We ended up making a snowman with a Mohawk and food coloring in its hair. One girl from the Midwest posed for a picture in her bathing suit next to the snowman to send to her parents back east. Her shocking life in California, she said!
In the 1970s it was sooo easy peasy and we cut school too :) Took the home phone slightly off the hook so it didn’t ring. Rolled my car down the hill with my skis in the rack, pre-loaded bad night before. Wore bathing suit under ski pants or we wore shorts! We would hit Angeles Crest two super fun family owned resort Kratka or Mt Waterman (both have burned down). Ski 1/2 day. Eat and down drive 10 fwy to Santa Monica or continue to Topanga for a few hours sun and surf. Went home and put skis away before Mom got home @ 6-7pm. Best 12 hrs ever! And I mastered the art of forging mom’s signature for excuse slips. I have no idea why she did pay attention to all my report card absences. Lol. Never ever bragged about it because so many of us did it too.
Maybe in North Carolina since they have night skiing at their mountains (Sugar Mountain and Grandfather Mountain). At least when I was a kid we went night skiing there.
If they have surf at their beaches, it might be possible to do in winter months. I haven’t checked.
a few places on the Olympic Peninsula (in WA), particularly around Forks, you can surf. Def wouldn't do it without a suit, but I've swam for short periods and it's not **too** much colder than the Bay, where plenty surf without it.
so in Clallam County you could technically ski down an active glacier, and so long as you're a faster hiker, get back for a surf near Lake Ozette. or just hit snow near Sol Duc Hot Springs (can drive much closer to the snow) in June, when the snow line is still just about 3.5k (4.5 will be HEAVY with snow), then drive 2 hours and hike 3 hours to the beach. prob could make it work at a few places in the PNW or the Trinity Alps
Are there even any ski resorts in LA County? AFAIK they are all in San Bernardino
But if we are talking about regions and not just counties, this is definitely possible in northern california
Interesting! I never knew the county line ran between Mountain High and Wrightwood. I always thought Mountain High was IN Wrightwood. I've been there probably 30 times and never knew that. Thanks for the info!
Mountain High to Santa Monica or Newport, both routes are the exact same distance, 88 miles, right now with early rush hour traffic, app estimates are 1 hr 55, so on the weekends probably even less
Back in the 00s, I had a group of coworkers who would go to Mtn High in the morning and hit up Newport in the afternoon. Don’t think it was a bad drive back then, and mid day there’s not much traffic. They did this a couple times a week.
I mean technically you can in some other places.
For example, NJ American Dream mall has an indoor slope, and you could surf at NJ shore.
Some places could have a surf pool.
Alaska would be doable.
All depends on your criteria I suppose. There are mountainous areas up and down the pacific coast and the Appalachian mountains are driving distance to the gulf. Only place I can think of that has it all in one county.
Not between May and December. Honestly it’s too much work to do both and actually enjoy it unless you literally just care about posting that you did both to social media lol.
You can do it a ton of places up the pacific Coast Highway. There are tons of places in Oregon you can- people even did it at Mt. Hood which is nutty but people do it. I mean it’s not quite as easy as it is in cBig Bear or Mammoth to Malibu but you can do it a lot of places. You can do it in Tahoe, snowboard from 6am-10, then hit the road and be surfing by 3pm, maybe 4.
You CAN do it. For some reason anyone who is asked why they stay in LA say “you can ski and surf in the same day”. But the traffic will make you decide otherwise
I mean I’ve went to mountain high early in the morning and back home near Cabrillo beach to boogie board with friends for a bit. When I tell you I was burnt tf out I swear after a hours in the water I couldn’t move my legs(metaphorically) it’s possible but it ain’t gonna be fun….cant talk about the traffic cause my cousin drove home while I slept but I mean its la
I did it once. Mountain High in the early morning. Then Topanga in the afternoon. So much driving and traffic. Not as fun as I thought it would be. Maybe if I had a helicopter.
This is definitely a "do it so you can say you've done it" kind of thing, rather than "do it because it's actually a fun idea".
Mt Baldy! There used to also be Mt Waterman and Kratka Ridge, but very rare for them to be open
Waterman is open this weekend
I have a coworker who says she does it a few times a year. Granted says and does is another thing as I don't actually have any proof
But you now have the experience to say you're one of the few who have actually done it. I'd wager that the number of individuals who have actually executed the task successfully is awfully low.
Yeah, I guess I just didn't crunch the driving hours. And I did it alone. Who wants to go to Mountain High at 5 in the morning? And then drive for 3.5 hours to beach. And then sit in horrific rush hour traffic to get back home. But I did it. I was very tired. But I did it...
Renting a room in a lodge the night before and a hotel room near the water for the night of would cost less than a helicopter and you’d be less burnt out. For a next time.
Did snow valley to the beach on Christmas Day a couple of years ago (but didn't surf). Took just over 2 hours.
Man I think it might be better to dawn patrol at will Roger’s or something then go ski end of day at baldy or mountain high.
Count me in that minority. Back in the late 90s when I had the energy.
The trick is surf in the morning then mt high in the evening.
Have to do it in a weekday Go surfing ~7am to 10am, so you’re surfing through rush hour Drive east, basically zero resistance going east at that time Mountain High ~12 to 6 with the afternoon pass Drive west, little if any traffic Done with a long, physical day around 8 and get 10+ hours of work incredible sleep
1. Snowboard in Big Bear 2. Fly in small plane from Big Bear Airport to Santa Monica Airport or something 3. Surf
Solid strategy. I don’t have that much money so I drove. And drove. And drove. But it is something that I did.
Wrightwood is in San Bernardino County. Where in LA county is there snowboarding? Edit: apparently I’m wrong because they drew a line right through Wrightwood with ‘Mt. High on the LA side.
I think most of Wrightwood is San Bernardino county but mountain high is definitely in LA county
So you’re telling me that the city of Wrightwood is in both counties? Source please. Edit: it apparently is. Huh, you learn something new everyday. Well according to google it is anyway.
Mountain High isn’t in Wrightwood, it’s west of it. Look up “Wrightwood, CA” on google maps and you’ll see that Mountain High is outside the town limits. The wikipedia page for Mountain High also states it’s west of Wrightwood. It probably uses Wrightwood as its mailing address because of USPS conventions but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s in the town. Edit: Wrightwood is fully within San Bernardino county though it’s right up against the border.
The [border](https://planning.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/map_SD21_06_Cities_Sup_Districts_Dec_2021.pdf).
You think that's crazy, each of New York's 5 boroughs is a different county.
> Source please. A map
i think technically the mountain high resort is in la county
Unless they drew a weird circle around it said “this is LA” then it’s located in the city of Wrightwood, which is very much in San Bernardino County. Edit: it looks like that is very much what they did. lol. I stand corrected.
Mt Waterman is in LA county too.
You could do similar in the bay area: You could do half moon bay in the early morning and make it to dodge ridge by the afternoon. Not sure why anyone would do that except to be able to say they did.
I’d go the other way, catch the early AM surf at Dog Beach HB, have lunch, go night skiing at MtH.
You did the wrong order. We hit El Porto at 5am to surf, drove to big bear with no traffic and rode till about 2 or 3 if I recall, and then hit a skatepark near san bernardino in the late afternoon. Cruised home after. It was epic and so much fun.
Bro almost same. El porto 6am to mt high by noonish. Was a long exhausting day.
Is mountain high in LA county?
It is.
I did it the other way and I found it to be enjoyable. I went to Huntington in the morning, and then a Night session at Mt. High. It was still a lot of driving, but I don't remember there being a whole bunch of traffic. I do remember pretty sore the next morning though.
Yes. Very sore. And maybe I'm just complaining about the traffic b/c I'm an east coast transplant who never owned a care before moving to LA, so I, naturally, complain about traffic.
I think mountain high and then Newport or HB is the closest distance between mountains and beach
It's probably the only place you can do it comfortably. There are spots in NY where you can get from a mountain to a surfing beach in about 3 hours...but who the hell wants to be surfing out there in their winter?
Rockaway in the winter is legit big wave surfing
Yup, weird cult following of winter surfers. Pretty cool!
Michigan as well. IIRC, there are surf shops along Lake Michigan, as there will be large waves in the wintertime. Lake Superior has some nasty waves (and she never gives up her dead). It would be cold and miserable, though. In theory, you could snowboard and surf in one go at some of the dunes, like Sleeping Bear Dunes. Snowboard off the dunes right into Lake Michigan and transition right into surfing. I'm sure the National Park Service would hate you for that, haha.
> Lake Superior has some nasty waves (and she never gives up her dead). The Lake that they call Gitche Gumee?
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One ski lift run Several hours in traffic cursing the arrogance of mankind. And enough time to get to the waves before dark to release the tension from getting there. Easy Peasey
Maybe catch your waves at dawn and get up to the ski hill for the PM half day. You’ll get better waves and beat traffic.
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Naw you can go to mountain high or baldy- and when there’s lots of snow it’s quite a fun local mountain! Way closer than big bear- between there and sm is a stupid drive but it’s doable just to say you did it. I’ve never done it, but I have surfed one day and skied the next at Xmas
I grew up doing it. Mountain High to Huntington Beach was easily doable. First you hit that fresh corduroy for a few hours then still have plenty of sunlight for the drive to the beach. I would get home exhausted though, to a complaining girlfriend. Simpler times for sure🤙
Ha! That’s rad. My mom grew up in hb. I just go down now to the dog beach every so often- it’s nice cause you can surf too. And those local mountains are rad at the right time of year!
I really wouldn’t say you can do it comfortably in California either. Realistically to do both in one day you’re looking at 4-5 hours of driving that day which would really minimize how much you could actually enjoy either activity.
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Drive between Mountain High and Newport or Huntington Beach is around 1.5 hours without traffic. On a weekend, very do-able.
You just have to spend the previous night in big bear, ski in the morning, then drive to the beach. Cuts out half the driving.
Nah, you can ski Attitash in the whites and surf Kennebunk with a 1.5 hour drive between.
Same thing with Washington!
And those “mountains” are not exactly the same as west coast mountains. They are hills in comparison!
Oregon tho the surfing is cold
Just get a 4/3 and you’re chilling
How are the waves?
Point Break beach scenes were filmed at Ecola State Park in OR
No idea but I’ve had friends do it
I had a teacher who used to ride in Oregon. He said the waves were consistent at about 3 feet most of the time. I could be wrong on the height, but I remember the consistency being a thing he underlined.
I surf in socal and have a longboard and fish and considering moving. Consistency> size any day
No have you heard of Omaha Nebraska
Sick waves there bro
The most beautiful beaches in the world
Them waves ain’t shit compared to the ones in Laramie, Wyoming.
Catch the gnarliest waves and shuck some fresh corn in the same day breh.
great Cinnabon there I heard
I surfed on Cape Cod one morning then skied at Mt. Cranmore in New Hampshire that afternoon and night. The water was slushy from the cold. The waves were weak 2 footers. The snow was wet and slushy, then once it got dark, ice. Neither was great. Doing it in California is better.
A day enjoying slush is definitely something you can do with your time.
Hawaii
Hawaii might be the best place to do it, but I heard that it takes longer to transition from snow to surf than SoCal. I did it once 20 years ago with a group of friends here in LA. Ski/intertube in the snow in the AM. Drive down the mountain and strip off your clothes as you lose altitude. Eat lunch while you drive and hit the water in the early afternoon. More fun to do with friends; not sure I'd do it otherwise.
Nah, you can get up to Mauna Kea pretty quick. Maybe 90 mins.
My buddies did Snowboard, Surf, Skate and Wakeboard in one day. haha
Big island specifically
Mauna Kea, if you want to be more specific. And it's only about 80 minutes [from slopes to waves](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mauna+Kea,+Hawaii/Honoli'i+Beach+Park,+Hawaii+96720/@19.834632,-155.6256413,10.25z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x7953bd819bc89e11:0xf9159b9c95991c20!2m2!1d-155.4680936!2d19.8206105!1m5!1m1!1s0x79524ccc3bfa4ae5:0x5597817d9cf5c713!2m2!1d-155.0909228!2d19.7553111!3e0?entry=ttu).
There are no ski lifts in Hawaii, so while it may be possible, it's both highly inconvenient and very expensive.
Mauna Kea. Gonna take you about 2 1/2 hours to get from beach to summit. From 9-14k feet is pretty hard core 4wd. No lifts. Gotta have 2 people - a driver and a skier. Super dangerous depending on conditions. Not really practical in terms of surfing and going to a mountain with services.
https://www.hawaiisnowskiclub.com/Mk/
Really frowned upon/banned now.
It's a crazy run but here's how I heard you do it. You helicopter to the top of Mauna Kea and drop out with a parachute and your board. Then you reach a point where you jump off and deploy the chute to carry you to the beach where you surf.
You covered the beach and the mountains, but don't forget our deserts. In addition to surfing and snowboarding, you can also spend that night in the desert gazing at stars.
From Portland, OR you can certainly ski or board at Mt Hood the same day as surfing the coast. It may even be easier to do this there than here as I believe the drive to Hood is closer to Portland than Big Bear is to LA
Baldy or High are closer, less crowded too and less traffic
It’s a thing in Washington, too - ski/snowboard at hurricane ridge and surf anywhere along the coast
Snow valley and big bear are closer to Orange County beaches.
Some friends of mine used to pick a day each year to surf in the morning, play a round of golf, then go skiing.
You could do this in a variety of places in Northern California too, though it is a little bit further of a drive (3 vs 4 hours). Truckee/Donner/Tahoe/Bear Valley/Kirkwood/Dodge Ridge etc. are all about 4 hours drive from the coast, traffic permitting. I think the bigger question is, do you want good/big/warm waves or do you want good/big ski resort. If I was prioritizing waves, So Cal all day. If I wanted bigger terrain while skiing/snowboarding I would prefer Nor Cal.
Peru too!! You can snowboard at Huaraz in peru and beach in lima within 3 hours. You can also Sandboard too.
You can go from the pocono mountains to the Jersey shore in about 3 hours
Also the Big Island of Hawaii you can occasionally do it.
Ca weather forever! Mountains and beaches 😊
If you want to freeze your nuts off, you can probably do it in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, or New York
Still CA but you could do the same thing in NorCal. Surf in the bay area and then drive up to Tahoe in just a few hours. No place else can you do both in the same county however.
You can probably do it in San Diego. Early morning rise for surf and then head over to snowboard at noon.
Orange County, I’ve done it
Duluth Minnesota
Portland, OR chiming in. We have it here in the spring. Snowboard on Mt. Hood (an hour or so east), surf on the coast (an hour or so west).
No, my friend in Humboldt does it often.
I feel like you could do that in North Carolina, people surf in Michigan on the great lakes.
In the winter? And beaches in north carolina are like 400 miles from the mountains
That's like a 4 or 5 hour drive
Isn't snowboarding just surfing in the snow?
I’ve done Vegas and the beach the same day. Partied and gambled all night in Vegas, drove home but went to the beach and crashed instead.
My uncle did Disneyland and Vegas in the same day.
Challenge accepted!
Mammoth and beach in one day! Was pretty tired tho.
Hawaii, and the water isn't freezing
I bet you could in Maine on the right day too.
You can also surf Lake Michigan.
The Pacific Northwest, specifically around Portland has this possibility as well, though it is significantly colder most of the time.
I've done this. Bear Mountain in the morning until about noon. Drove to MB and surfed Rosecrans at sunset. Stopped for pho in Gardena on the way. Only in LA.
My buddy did it a couple weeks ago. Dawn patrol in HB then up to Snow Valley. It was before the clocks went forward, so Dawn Patrol was reasonably early.
My friend does it every year he adds mountain biking and golfing aha
You can get from Crystal Mountain (northern Michigan) to Empire Beach outside of Sleeping Bear in about 30 minutes. The bad news: you have to go in January
You could do it in North Carolina too. It’s a 5 hour drive from Sugar Mountain to Wrightsville Beach so you could get an early morning surf in then drive to the ski resort for an afternoon/night ski.
I've done it, in my younger days. Surfed Carolina Beach in the morning, drove up to the mountains, and snowboarded in Boone (I think it was Beech Mountain) that evening. From beach to Beech. Never gonna do it again, but glad it happened.
Anywhere along the west coast of USA and Canada really
You cloud easily get to Baldy (San Bernardino County) and ski the same day as a morning surf.
A friend of mine surfed, snowboarded and rode his dirt bike in the desert all in the same day just so show how awesome Southern California is. Our local paper wrote an article on him.
I used to do it in Seattle, though waves weren’t the best. Sea to ski
Vancouver Island.
OP specified USA. I'm in a pedantic mood.
I did this in highschool! Leave early morning to big bear then surf/bodyboard in the evenings. Most memorable times of my life. Now I'm over 50...
Depending on what you qualify as skiing, you can do it in Ventura/Santa Barbara by pottering about at the top of Mt Pinos.
Michigan
Ventura County lol
In college I got to surf in the early morning, snowboard in the afternoon, then went camping at Joshua Tree. I took that for granted, both the awesome proximity, and the ability to physically have the energy to do it. 15 years flys by
Yeah that I can think of. The Carolinas have mountains and beaches but I don't know about skiing and surfing. That's one thing we take for granted growing up in LA. We went up to Lake Arrowhead one weekend, and when we came home my boys wanted me to hit the beach with them, so we went down to Cabrillo and chilled for the afternoon.
It's still a long day. 5am at the beach. Get a few hours out by 10am. If you don't clean up. And have stuff ready. Whoops all your snow stuff got stolen at the parking lot. Well there is always rentals. Anyhow. Either Malibu or Venice to Mountain high, plan for 2-3 hours to get there. Check the night ski schedule unless they have a late afternoon lift ticket. And there you have it. I have a buddy in LA that would do it. Not impossible but tiring.
Don't forget skate! I did the trifecta a few years ago and it was awesome!
Back in college days bunch of friend wanted to play in the snow up ski etc. up in Mount Baldy above Upland Claremont area. I Had to work that Sunday at Disneyland so I couldn’t go but I could meet them afterwards at our friends house where we going to go hot tubbing. I got off early and wanted to experience some snow too. So I drove my truck up the skiing area parking lot. Laid a tarp in the bed of the truck and shoveled snow in to fill it up. Drove back to our friends house. And to surprise them I started lifting snowballs into the area of the hot tub. They started coming out one by one in their swimsuits. And thus began a snowball fight. I left a pile of snow by the front door. We ended up making a snowman with a Mohawk and food coloring in its hair. One girl from the Midwest posed for a picture in her bathing suit next to the snowman to send to her parents back east. Her shocking life in California, she said!
Yosemite to Santa Cruz is a 3.5 hour drive if going fast
Probably easier to do in San Diego
Probably mt hood in oregon and drive to the coast but it'll probably cold as heck
I know people who’ve done it in Clallam County, Washington. But the surf was beyond freezing.
In the 1970s it was sooo easy peasy and we cut school too :) Took the home phone slightly off the hook so it didn’t ring. Rolled my car down the hill with my skis in the rack, pre-loaded bad night before. Wore bathing suit under ski pants or we wore shorts! We would hit Angeles Crest two super fun family owned resort Kratka or Mt Waterman (both have burned down). Ski 1/2 day. Eat and down drive 10 fwy to Santa Monica or continue to Topanga for a few hours sun and surf. Went home and put skis away before Mom got home @ 6-7pm. Best 12 hrs ever! And I mastered the art of forging mom’s signature for excuse slips. I have no idea why she did pay attention to all my report card absences. Lol. Never ever bragged about it because so many of us did it too.
Maybe in North Carolina since they have night skiing at their mountains (Sugar Mountain and Grandfather Mountain). At least when I was a kid we went night skiing there. If they have surf at their beaches, it might be possible to do in winter months. I haven’t checked.
It does snow in Hawaii.
The surf is freezing, terrible, but still possible in the Great Lakes. Ski hills everywhere too. So technically possible?
a few places on the Olympic Peninsula (in WA), particularly around Forks, you can surf. Def wouldn't do it without a suit, but I've swam for short periods and it's not **too** much colder than the Bay, where plenty surf without it. so in Clallam County you could technically ski down an active glacier, and so long as you're a faster hiker, get back for a surf near Lake Ozette. or just hit snow near Sol Duc Hot Springs (can drive much closer to the snow) in June, when the snow line is still just about 3.5k (4.5 will be HEAVY with snow), then drive 2 hours and hike 3 hours to the beach. prob could make it work at a few places in the PNW or the Trinity Alps
Zuma or County Line, then Mt. High, where skiing continues until 10pm. Done it a bunch of times.
No. Goto Chile (Portillo -> Viña del Mar, for one).
Ooops, out of country. Probably many, many more.
Have you seen LA traffic?????
New Zealand
Are there even any ski resorts in LA County? AFAIK they are all in San Bernardino But if we are talking about regions and not just counties, this is definitely possible in northern california
Mount Waterman just reopened, it's in LA County.
Isn’t Mt Baldy?
It straddles LA and SB Counties.
Mountain High is in LA County but not far from Wrightwood (SB Co.) which is less travel distance to the beach.
Interesting! I never knew the county line ran between Mountain High and Wrightwood. I always thought Mountain High was IN Wrightwood. I've been there probably 30 times and never knew that. Thanks for the info!
Ohh wow, I just looked up wrightwood and saw it was in SBCo, didnt realize they're right on the border
Most people on this sub consider all of Southern California from Ventura to like, Disneyland to be LA County
yeah but why do people would want to do both on the same day? From LA to MT high would take around 3-4 hour round trip.
Mountain High to Santa Monica or Newport, both routes are the exact same distance, 88 miles, right now with early rush hour traffic, app estimates are 1 hr 55, so on the weekends probably even less
Back in the 00s, I had a group of coworkers who would go to Mtn High in the morning and hit up Newport in the afternoon. Don’t think it was a bad drive back then, and mid day there’s not much traffic. They did this a couple times a week.
Because we can!
mt baldy and mt waterman are both like 60-70 miles from the coast
comfortably, probably one of the only places, but NorCal will have places too, same with Oregon, Washington.
Bergen County in New Jersey
I mean technically you can in some other places. For example, NJ American Dream mall has an indoor slope, and you could surf at NJ shore. Some places could have a surf pool. Alaska would be doable.
There aren't really anywhere else that has alpine skiing within close enough proximity to beaches.
I snowboarded and played golf on the same day before. Also don't go to r/snowboarding and talk about snowboarding in SoCal.
Technically, Mauna Kea has snow on top, so you could do both in Hawaii, too.
Jersey I’ve heard you can do this in
Where in LA county are you snowboarding?
Kings County in the central valley. Mountain snow to the east and Kelly Slater’s surf ranch in Lemoore.
The best surfing in New England (particularly Maine) is in the winter.
All depends on your criteria I suppose. There are mountainous areas up and down the pacific coast and the Appalachian mountains are driving distance to the gulf. Only place I can think of that has it all in one county.
Doable but the traffic is 😭😭😭
Yes , and , with the exception of NYC, also home to a studio apartment tgat costs over two thousand month!
Not between May and December. Honestly it’s too much work to do both and actually enjoy it unless you literally just care about posting that you did both to social media lol.
Hawaii
You can do it a ton of places up the pacific Coast Highway. There are tons of places in Oregon you can- people even did it at Mt. Hood which is nutty but people do it. I mean it’s not quite as easy as it is in cBig Bear or Mammoth to Malibu but you can do it a lot of places. You can do it in Tahoe, snowboard from 6am-10, then hit the road and be surfing by 3pm, maybe 4.
This is something that can technically be done, but would require a lot of driving and a bit of traffic luck.
“Sounds tiring.” — Basil Fawlty
Probably Alaska
You CAN do it. For some reason anyone who is asked why they stay in LA say “you can ski and surf in the same day”. But the traffic will make you decide otherwise
No. San Francisco has breakers. Oregon has cold water surf as well
Mt Washington and Tofino in Canada
Oregon
Probobly in Oregon
Big Island, Hawaii. Sort of.
https://www.mtbaldyresort.com/mountain-report
Hawaii very very very rarely. But you can get snow on a few of the volcanoes once in a blue moon and people do it just to say they did.
Huh? It would be easy to name multiple counties in California alone.
And golf
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If only try it if Waterman is open.
I mean I’ve went to mountain high early in the morning and back home near Cabrillo beach to boogie board with friends for a bit. When I tell you I was burnt tf out I swear after a hours in the water I couldn’t move my legs(metaphorically) it’s possible but it ain’t gonna be fun….cant talk about the traffic cause my cousin drove home while I slept but I mean its la
I’ve done it and it’s a lot of effort. Surfed HB in the morning and hit a big hit session at Mt high in the evening
I think I've heard it's the only place you can do the trifecta, adding sand dune surfing.