Sugar Bowl Resort and Royal Gorge Cross Country have announced the plans for the upcoming season, including mandatory vaccinations for all staff. Advance purchase will be required again this season for all visiting guests. The resort also has plans to reopen The Hotel at Sugar Bowl and all lodges, bars and restaurants at both resorts.
By Justin Scacco | Special to The Union
“As a small token of our gratitude, we’re offering a free day of skiing and breakfast to 200 educators who want to take a break and spend time outside in the mountains, said Kevin Mitchell, Homewood Mountain Resort general manager.
Homewood Mountain Resort
As Easter weekend nears, local ski resorts in the Truckee-Tahoe area have laid out plans for celebrations, and ticket sales for the 2021-22 season, while preparing for the final few weeks of an unprecedented year of enforcing mask requirements, social distancing, solo lift rides, and other COVID-19 measures.
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Snowmobile trails around Detroit Lakes lead to cozy hangouts with classic comfort food
Forum News Service food critic Eric Daeuber recently went off the beaten path near Detroit Lakes, Minn., to visit a favorite restaurant that keeps its helmeted clientele warm and full each winter. Written By: Eric Daeuber | ×
Snowmobile trails lead to all kinds of places in Minnesota. Eric Daeuber / Forum food critic
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. The cartography of snowmobile trails north of Detroit Lakes, Minn., looks like the brain map of someone cold and confused. There are miles and miles (and miles) of trails, and they wind around in the most chaotic way through some of the most beautiful forests in Minnesota.
The Thunder Burger basket ($11.99) is a standard choice at Ice Cracking Lodge. Eric Daeuber / Forum food critic
The menu is what you might expect of an up-north resort that doesn’t know how to be pretentious. But it’s also what you were hoping for. The Thunder Burger is the half-pound beef patty served in all the variations you’d expect of a bar burger, including combinations of bacon, Swiss cheese, pepper jack and barbecue sauce that give you the no-nonsense burger names you see on menus all across the Midwest like California Thunder Burger and Bacon Thunder Burger. Mercifully missing are avocados, shiitake mushrooms, chevre and wagyu pleasant in their own time and place, but not on a trail and not in the woods.