CABLE, Wis. — This year, it seemed like an apparition: Hundreds of skiers gliding through pine and birch forests here in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. The 50th year of the world-famous American Birkebeiner race, inspired by a 13th-century Norwegian war tale, was under way — against the odds and a bit slushier than usual.
Snow and ice are a way of life here. See how a lost winter upended that.
Wisconsin’s Northwoods are normally a playground of snow and ice right now. But life here has become unrecognizable.
By Scott Dance
February 28, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EST