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Article: Cross-country lodge pampers its snow
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- February 5, 2003
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Cross-country lodge pampers its snow
By BETH GAUPER Knight Ridder Newspapers
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Every winter, skiers start a pilgrimage to western Minnesota.
They look out their car windows at the dry yellow fields, the
frozen bare furrows, and wonder: Will there be snow?
At Maplelag, there almost always is.
Rising slightly at a point where prairie meets the eastern
hardwood forest and northern pine forest, its trees catch the first
snow from the west. Once under a canopy of maples, it comes under the
custody of Jay Richards, who combs, cossets and grooms it as if it
were the pelt of a prize poodle.
"We have to take care of it and baby it," says Richards, the son
of Maplelag ...