Back to the Ice

Finally, mid-March is here. This is the time of the winter when I start working a lot less at the ski hill and at the DECC on weekends. I scheduled myself for a lot less work on the chairlift in March, taking this whole weekend off. Chester Bowl closes on March 19th, and I have only

Extreme Winter Camping Debut in the BWCA

Three winters of my life have now passed in Duluth, MN. This winter will go down for me as the one when I finally took my first winter camping trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, something I have been dreaming of doing for decades. In our first winter in Duluth, we were lucky

Conquering your fears, ice-fishing

Being a newcomer to Duluth means learning how to answer such questions as “when is there enough ice to go ice-fishing?” For me, the main factor is just hunger. The hunger to be out on the ice, learning a new trade, finding answers to all my questions about where, when, how to catch fish. So the hunger, or “predatory instinct”, was