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Category Archives: Nordic Skiing

New Year’s Weekend Getaway

By marvineggert | December 21, 2009

Ring in the new year with a getaway to Lanesboro, MN the Bed and Breakfast Capital of Minnesota. The Old Village Hall Restaurant is featuring a lovely dinner all new year’s weekend including: Appetizers: Sautéed Mussels in an Orange Gin Chile Cream Sauce, Seasoned Lamb Chops with Irish Whiskey Cherry Sauce Entrées: Monkfish Scaloppini, Dry [...]

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Fall’s First Snow on Gunflint Trail

By bct | October 11, 2009

First snow of the season! Over the last two days the Mid-Gunflint aroung Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B has registered about three and one-half inches of snow. More is predicted through Monday. But don’t break-out your skis just yet. The trails still need more work; the swamps and ponds along the trails are not frozen and [...]

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Spring Snow on Gunflint no April Fools Joke

By bct | April 2, 2009

April Fools Day brought 12 – 14 inches of heavy wet snow to the Gunflint Trail’s Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and along the Banadad Ski Trail. On the morning of the first with guests planning to leave for home the roads and driveways into the B&B’s two rental cabins had to be cleared. Plowing began [...]

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Lanesboro Candlelight Ski

By marvineggert | January 2, 2009

Lanesboro’s Hillcrest Hide-Away B&B invites you to enjoy our winter wonderland in Southeast Minnesota.  The Root River State trail has a fresh blanket of snow and is groomed and ready for cross country skiing.  Click here for current ski conditions.    Make plans now to join us for the Candlelight Ski and Bonfire on Saturday [...]

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First Skiers through the Gunflint Trail’s Banadad this Winter

By bct | December 29, 2008

Gunflint Trail-With the temperature hovering above freezing on December 27, the ski conditions on the Banadad Ski Trail were not great, as Erik and Karl Hoeg became the first skier to complete the entire 31 kilometer Banadad non-stop this winter. The two boys time was about 4 hours. They both are very good skiers and [...]

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Lanesboro B&B Winter Ski Getaway

By marvineggert | December 19, 2008

Imagine – the smell of home made bread baking when you awake. Imagine – curling up to a good book next to a fireplace. Enjoy a hearty breakfast (that you don’t have to make or clean up) and then head out on miles of groomed cross country ski trails surrounded by the bluffs of the [...]

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