Grass Drags This Weekend, And More Sled-Related Fun Is Coming!

  Have you noticed the earlier sunsets in the past few weeks? I have, and a couple of nights this week the nighttime air blowing in the bedroom window actually felt a little bit cold.             Oh sure, the forecast for the Minneapolis area is calling for highs to return to close to 90 degrees starting tomorrow with increased humidity, but the kids are going back to school in 9 days... [Read more]

Am I An Expert Or Idiot? Both!

 Everybody is an expert at something, yet no matter how big of an expert they are, there is always somebody else who can make them look like a relative novice.             I was reminded of that fact this past weekend, when my family went on our annual long-weekend vacation with another family in our neighborhood.             When I hang out with that family, I appear to be a... [Read more]

USCC Inks National Guard As Title Sponsor

Minto, ND – The United States Cross-Country Snowmobile Racing Association (USCC) has signed the National Guard as its title sponsor for the 2010-2011 race season. The USCC circuit will be known as “The USCC National Guard Cross-Country Snowmobile Championship.” “We are excited to partner with The National Guard for the 2010-2011 snowmobileracing season,” said USCC Sponsorship Director... [Read more]

The Old Snowmobile Photo Search From Hell

Once a month, longtime contributor David Wells tries to kill me.             Not on purpose (I don’t think?!). Wells is a very nice, well-intentioned guy who would never intentionally cause me bodily hard (probably).             The problem? Wells writes our Timeline articles for each issue of Snow Goer, and does a hell of a job with the assignment. He decides on all of the... [Read more]

Sled Racing: May Not Be Big Time, But It’s Easy To Access

Wednesday night viewers of the Speed channel’s “Intersections” show got to see a comparison between Troy Dewald’s winning drive at the Soo I-500 and a truck racer’s efforts at the grueling Baja 500 race. I, in turn, got to enjoy a flashback to my first time seeing the famed Soo I-500 track in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.             I was snowmobiling in the U.P. about a dozen years... [Read more]

IWA Returns to Hill City, and Wins my Heart

The first thing I learned about journalism is that it is the responsibility of the author to report on topics in an unbiased manner.  In the few years that I have been reporting on snowmobile races, I have lived by that principle and for the most part, kept my opinions out of my stories.  That being said it has come time that I make an exception to that rule in saying that watercross is by and far... [Read more]