I've surfed both. It's fleeting but amazing experience. The remoteness and structure of the coastline makes access the most fun (difficult part). AK gets trickier because its less long period swell and more localized systems, often times resulting in lots of wind and short swell windows.
The holy grail is undiscovered long point breaks.
Would love to give an LLM a dataset of satellite images and tell it to discover more waves containing similar attributes.
Surfing -Finding remote point breaks and surfing northern latitudes with nobody around.