A weekend snow event and colder temperatures could help skiing and snowmobiling. 3:11 pm, Dec. 7, 2020 × Knut Clarke-Sather, 9, skis on a Snowflake Nordic Center trail between patches of bare ground during a lunchtime break from online learning Monday with this father. “We’ve skied at a few other places that weren’t as nice,” Afton Clarke-Sather said of the trails at Snowflake. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) In late October, it seemed as if the Northland was headed into an early winter, with temperatures dipping into the teens, small lakes freezing over and a foot of snow falling in Duluth, the most ever for the month.