Bob CollinsOur hearts are always warmed when we see the boys of summer giving winter a good go. Read more →
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Tag: Embracing winter
We can learn a lot from dogs. Read more →
Let’s pause to observe the half-full nature of an ice storm in Minnesota in December.
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My non-Minnesota Facebook friends have been posting this video in the last 24 hours which makes this state look like the coolest place in the country.
They’re not wrong. Read more →
What do you do if you live in northern Minnesota, the winter is long, you have a chainsaw and an old outboard motor?
You make motorized ice circles, like Mark Verm did in Nashwauk.
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We all probably have different definitions of luxury but for a kid like me who grew up having to trudge through the woods across the street to get to the “hockey pond,” a backyard rink certainly qualifies.
So we salivate just a bit at what Shawn Carlon has done at his home in Maple Grove. Read more →
Let there be no further debate — if there was still any at all — that Minnesota is the state of hockey.
The latest proof comes from Duluth native Cory Fechner of Minneapolis, who had a pond, Google earth, and some GPS mapping knowledge. Oh, and some time on his hands. Read more →
… make snowballs. Read more →
If there’s one story today to warm the heart of an old hockey player, it’s MPR reporter Dan Kraker’s story about the hockey players who still play in outdoors rinks.
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You couldn’t have asked for more miserable weather than the Arctic blast that’s gripped us over the last few days. Which is why the people of Duluth have exclusive bragging rights for being ‘real’ Minnesotans when it counted most. Read more →
Wired profiles photographers Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber, a husband-and-wife team from Minneapolis that stumbled on the sport a few years ago.
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We’re not sure this is the most efficient way to shovel snow, but this video from Montreal (which is pretty good at getting rid of the stuff) nonetheless confirms that many of us in flyover country aren’t approaching the task with the kind of enthusiasm we could. Read more →
The Bartz boys of New Brighton are at it again. Read more →
Before we bid adieu to winter, we tip our hat to the season that allows us to start a week with a paragraph like this in today’s Mankato Free Press about the inaugural Duct Tape Derby at Mt. Kato on Saturday.
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Yep, we’re hunkered down here in flyover country, just waiting until spring.
Right, Ironton?
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