Caspar Creek Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's get this out there. It's Rusty.

Well, it's a bit of a rough stretch for Caspar Creek, and I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. There’s some swell, sure, but for the next week, we're mostly dealing with a messy, cross-on wind situation that’s gonna have things chopped up. It's just not looking like a surf you want to paddle out into unless you're desperate.

We’re looking at a period of poor surf out of the gate. The northwest winds are blowing at 9 to 12 mph, creating a fairly choppy surface, especially through the 8th and 9th. Swell heights are there, around 6 ft to 8 ft from the northwest, but the combination of cross-onshore winds and short-period, 7 to 8 second swell makes for a pretty messy, jumbled wave.

Now, there is a pulse of energy that comes in around the 10th, Monday. The combined energy jumps to 2049, which is a solid push of moderate-to-strong wave energy. You'll see the swell bump up to 8 ft, and the period stretches to 9 seconds, which is a bit better shape. The problem is, the winds stay cross-onshore, and they're calling the surf conditions "marginal." It’s just gonna be that kind of day where you're dealing with a lot of whitewater and the odd decent wave in between.

From the 11th through the 13th, we stay in the 7 ft range from the NW, with the swell period hitting 9 to 10 seconds. The wind does start to back off a little, with 3 mph breezes, but they’re still mostly cross-on. There are some windows where it gets closer to glassy, but the overall score is still "marginal." It’s just not clean.

Things really start to die down for the middle part of the week, around the 14th and 15th. The swell drops out to under 3 ft, from 4 ft down to 3 ft, and the combined energy just collapses. The shorter period, 7-8 seconds, means the waves just don't have any push to them. The 14th does have a call for glassy conditions in the afternoon, but with only 4 ft of short-period swell, it's going to be weak and soft.

This flat stretch is going to last for a few days, through the 16th and 17th, when the swell bottoms out at 2 ft. It’s going to be tiny, just about dead. You'd be better off finding a lake to paddle on.

But, here’s the thing, this place isn't all bad. There’s a sign of life on the horizon. Looking into the back half of the forecast, we start to see early hints of something better for the 18th and 19th of August. The swell direction kicks around to the WNW, and more importantly, the period jumps to a very long 14-15 seconds. That's a real groundswell, the kind of energy that makes the drops feel more solid and the lines more defined. The combined energy is back up to 753 and then 960, which is promising. It looks like the swell will be in the 5 ft to 6 ft range. The winds stay light, but it's still cross-on, so we're not going to get perfect conditions. It's one to keep an eye out for because of that long period, but don't go booking the day off work just yet.

That’s the long and the short of it. A week of frustrating, bumpy surf, a couple of small and quiet days, and then a potential groundswell pulse for the following week that might just start making things mighty interesting.

Rusty, out.

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