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Each year at this time as we celebrate the end of a year and begin a new one, we also remember a lost friend with a subject that was dear to Anita’s heart – a bucket list. I thought of Anita a lot this year because my 2015 bucket list item took place...

It was a restless night. As a cross country ski racer, one of the things you dread is variable weather. The day before the Slumberland American Birkebeiner between Cable and Hayward, warm temperatures and rain blanketed Northwestern Wisconsin. The rain...

Are you an endurance athlete who lives in a snowy climate? Were you inspired watching the cross country ski racing events at the Winter Olympics? Or are you just looking for your next gnarly adventure? Here are a dozen rugged winter endurance events...

Dog Powered For two decades, Michelle Flanagan- Haag competed in the Elite Wave of the American Birkebeiner—aka the “Birkie,”—the largest, and one of the longest, cross-county ski races in North America, which draws 10,000- plus skiers to Cable and...

Puck and I took a trip to Northern Wisconsin hamlet of Cable to attend the Midwest Fatbike Summit and Grooming Seminar last week that was sponsored by Quality Bicycle Products, Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists (MORC), The Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association...