The Return to Open Water Winter offers much enjoyment on Minnesota’s numerous frozen lakes: snowshoeing, ice fishing, ice skating. The experience of literally walking on water is always exhilarating the first time you step out on to the ice after freeze up. I can remember building quincies on the ice on Boot Lake as a Boy Scout, and spending the night in the cramped snow shelters trying to sleep. Listening to the ice crack and moan as if it were a restless sleeper itself.  However, it’s the spring, with its warmer temperatures and lengthening sunlight that really gets me excited, because soon the lakes will be pulsing and liquid again. It’s as if the rise in temperatures thaws the memory along with the ice. The sound of the water on a rocky shore. The smell of the lake in your hair after a late night swim. The canoeing.  And the fishing, oh the fishing. I am ready. —Nick Zdon, Best Made Minnesota Outpost
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The Return to Open Water

Winter offers much enjoyment on Minnesota’s numerous frozen lakes: snowshoeing, ice fishing, ice skating. The experience of literally walking on water is always exhilarating the first time you step out on to the ice after freeze up. I can remember building quincies on the ice on Boot Lake as a Boy Scout, and spending the night in the cramped snow shelters trying to sleep. Listening to the ice crack and moan as if it were a restless sleeper itself. 

However, it’s the spring, with its warmer temperatures and lengthening sunlight that really gets me excited, because soon the lakes will be pulsing and liquid again. It’s as if the rise in temperatures thaws the memory along with the ice. The sound of the water on a rocky shore. The smell of the lake in your hair after a late night swim. The canoeing.  And the fishing, oh the fishing. I am ready.

—Nick Zdon, Best Made Minnesota Outpost

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