ON THE GUNFLINT TRAIL – The recent cold that enveloped Minnesota's northern border bottomed out at 37 below zero, a temperature that would test the mettle of Pete Harris' blaze orange deer-hunting outfit. Fortunately, a heat wave had moved in and as we slid Pete's snowmobile off its trailer, the mercury drifted toward a more comfortable minus-7.
The goal was to fish lake trout through the ice.
Pete and his wife, Carol, live outside of Grand Marais within a stone's throw of Lake Superior, and if Pete wasn't fishing on this recent morning he'd be splitting wood or figuring out how, in the North Shore's deep snow, he'll get around in his sugar bush later this month.
