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Winters here are fierce, and it's better to admit that fact and find a way to enjoy the season than to stay home depressed. Ice skating, with its low requirements in start-up costs and athletic prowess, may be the perfect way to beat the winter doldrums. It's charming and cheap--in fact, at Lake of the Isles it's absolutely free. Wannabe Minnesota Wild players can practice their skills between the hockey nets. Figure skaters can twirl to their hearts' content. And would-be lovers have a... More »
The Olympics proved that ice skating is about both beauty and brawn. While figure skater Johnny Weir fox-furred us into a frenzy, Team USA's Zach Parise clocked in a game-tying goal with seconds left in the third to turn a great gold-medal hockey game into a legendary one. In the Twin Cities, where ice is a birthright, the Lake of the Isles skating rink provides an opportunity to imitate either end of the ice-skating spectrum. On one section of the lake, burly hockey men play pickup games in... More »
Saturday afternoon in mid-March and the endless winter has finally begun to lose its bite. The temperature is a balmy 45 degrees and the sun (sun!) is shining. Staring out our dank apartment window, we can no longer resist the lure of the outdoors. So we turn off the TV, put the unopened beer back in the fridge, and lace up our dusty running shoes. The sidewalks are still a bit icy, yet the outer path around Lake of the Isles is in remarkably good shape. Sand has been laid down to keep the... More »
Oh, we've tried them all--and, more to the point, so have our friends, who are the kind of people who actually look good precariously balanced on steel blades. Walnut Ridge in Edina, tucked away off Biscayne Boulevard where only the locals are supposed to find it. Crosby Lake out in Chanhassen, where deer sometimes watch you glide; Langford Park in St. Paul, where they take their ice very, very seriously (and consequently laugh themselves silly when we show up). We even temporarily yielded... More »
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