Print subscribers If you're a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Non-subscribers It’s all about the turf North Country winters pose challenges for The Wilderness staff Posted David Colburn TOWER- The calendar is an odd sort of beast for Ryan VerNess, course superintendent at The Wilderness golf course at Fortune Bay Resort Casino. Spring begins in the fall, as it must if the championship-level destination layout is to meet the high expectations of those teeing up balls for the May 7 season opener. “The way you put it to bed dictates how it will wake up in the spring,” VerNess said.