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A winter to remember for ULTRA snowmobile club

Though there is still snow on the ground, it's no longer deep enough for snowmobile riding in most places, so the Detroit Lakes-based ULTRA snowmobile club recently wrapped up its winter grooming season with a volunteer appreciation event. This year the club used 11 groomer operators some paid, but mostly volunteer to groom over 3,500 miles of trails throughout the season.

Snowmobile trails around Detroit Lakes lead to cozy hangouts with classic comfort food

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.

Minnesota's snowmobile trails lead to cozy hangouts with classic comfort food

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.

Snowmobile trails around Detroit Lakes lead to cozy hangouts with classic comfort food