The announcement wasn’t unexpected, but it had to disappoint area dog mushers when, on Monday, January 29, race officials posted, 'It is with great disappointment that the Board has decided to cancel the 2024 Gunflint Mail Run.'
JEANNE WRIGHT There is a sense that time speeds up during this point in the nordic ski season. It is easy to feel that there just isn't enough time to teach, to practice, to just ski.
The Cook County Alpine ski boys' and girls' ski teams had three races over the Martin Luther King weekend: Two at Giants Ridge on Saturday and one on Monday at Mont Du Lac. The two meets at Giants Ridge are called the MLK Invite.
The last time these two teams met, the South Ridge Panthers upended the Cook County Vikings by one point in double overtime at South Ridge. That game was played on December 1, 2023. This game would be different, but for a while, it seemed like the Panthers had Cook County's number.
Mother nature is difficult, if not impossible, to replicate— se in point - the snowflake, a delicate crystal with complex shapes. Now envision artificial snow: small, tiny ice balls. There's nothing pretty about it, but it's skiable, and this year, the Cook County Nordic High School team has been grateful for it.
The Cook County Vikings won their first game in the Ely Holiday tournament against International Falls 65-52. The game was played on Wednesday, December 27, with a game to follow on December 28.
Anticipation has built over the years about a professional women’s hockey team being formed. They finally succeeded as the PWHL Minnesota with the first home game January 6 at the Xcel Energy center with a large attendance to witness a part of “herstory”.
The U.S. longest sled dog marathon outside of Alaska was canceled this week because of a lack of snow.
Widespread rain, wind and unseasonably warm weather during recent days have degraded ice conditions throughout the state, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. While the week between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays has become popular among the owners of deluxe fish houses (known also as wheelhouses), conditions so far this winter mean few, if any, areas of the state have the ice thickness necessary for these types of ice structures.
