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Inside Denmark’s ‘Cold Hawaii’ Where Winter Surfing Comes Alive

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“If there is one place I absolutely don’t want to miss a good forecast it’s here at home in Denmark. I can be sitting somewhere else tropical scoring perfect waves everyday, but I keep checking the forecast and if I see a good day, I freak out when I can’t make it.” Oli Hartkopp is one of Denmark's top surfers and a multi-national champion. When he's home, and those winter swells rifle in, he's on it -- and when he's not at home, he wants to be. While the country may not be the first European surf zone that screams surf trip – it gets waves. Giant, Atlantic storms that flush across the top of Scotland can rip down the backbone of the UK, sending swell to Norway, the east coast of the UK and then down into the west coast of Denmark too. Marlon Lipke, deep in a Denmark cavern. Photo by @timwendrichphoto It's not as consistent as other places across the Old Continent, of course, but up on the country's northern western coastline is the town of Klitmøller, which has been affectionately dubbed Cold Hawaii.…

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