Happy New Year
With every ending comes a new beginning and as we say goodbye to 2006 we say hello to 2007. My hope for you in this New Year is all of the health and happiness your heart can hold. May the following …
The Root Beer Lady
Dorothy Molter was known as the Root Beer Lady because she sold her special bottled Root Beer to canoeists passing by her Isle of Pines on Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. She operated a small …
Holidays, Happy Days?
When you think of Christmas and New Years what comes to your mind? Is it a picture of friends and family gathered around a Christmas Tree singing carols joyfully? Do you think of all of the wonderful memories from …
Safe Snowmobiling
Everyone is anxious to get out and go for a snowmobile ride but the conditions are not safe yet. The lack of snow is preventing the majority of the people in the state of Minnesota from riding. According to the …
Cross Country Skiing
The Gunflint Trail is home to some of the finest cross-country skiing in the state of Minnesota. There are wilderness portages, frozen Boundary Water’s lakes, and over 176 kilometers of marked and groomed tracked trails. With good snowfall(an average …
Christmas Mourning
While most people celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas Morning, others mourned the death of long-time Gunflint Trail resident, Jerry Parsons. Jerry died in his home on Christmas Eve and is survived by his son Forrest Parsons. …
Winter Tracks 2007
If you’ve been looking for a way to experience all winter has to offer then look no further, The Gunflint Trail Winter Tracks Festival has it all. When can you ice skate, cross-country ski, play broomball, slide down a hill, …
Merry Christmas
I would like to share the following Christmas story with you all, the author is unknown but I enjoyed it very much. May you all enjoy a very Merry Christmas today. I hope you are healthy, happy and surrounded …
Ice
We’re still waiting impatiently for the ice on the big lakes to freeze so we can safely ski and snowmobile. Then there’s the people who live on the Canadian side of Saganaga who are waiting for the ice to …
White Christmas
If you are looking for a White Christmas then come on up to the Gunflint Trail or Lutsen. The Gunflint Trail has most of the cross-country ski trails packed but not tracked yet. The sleigh rides at Okontoe are …