Love the moniker - favorite MN public course?
I'm a big fan of Giants Ridge. We have a group of six guys that play the two Giants Ridge courses, the Wilderness at Fortune Bay, and rotate in a couple other courses over four days each summer. It's a great golf trip. In fact, we just made our hotel reservations at the casino yesterday. But if I have one round left in Minnesota at a course I can play (public), it would be Quarry at Giants Ridge.
My buddy got married at the quarry. Great scenery!
My grandfather was one of the many men who removed the high grade iron ore from the pit to help ensure the US could win WWII. He and hundreds of other locals provided their dump trucks to drive the ore out of the pit and to the trains that brought them to Duluth. I go up every summer, not to play the course, but to look at the blessings we all receive because people like my grandfather gave of themselves for this country. I hope the next time you drive to the Ridge, you remember the great men and women of the Range who worked tirelessly for our freedom.
Great courses, I make the same trip with a group of guys every year as well.
If I ever go back I might remember you mentioned something. My grandfather was also deployed in WWII.
I chose 3 as well. That’s about 4 or 5 less than I was projecting prior to the season.
But our hope is turnt up to 11
We’ll come out with one of our great second half runs after a Phil Jackson’esque halftime adjustment
The Quarry is my favorite of those two there as well. I do like Dakota Ridge an awful lot too.
HUH? How long did you live on the Range?
0-20. 1960s & 70s. Loved the summers. Hated the cold. Moved down to the tropics in the early 80s. Go back in the summers to recharge.
Excluding perhaps Grand Rapids, the Range has become the Gary, Indiana of the north.
Not even close, but it has certainly lost some great characters over the years. I mean, what other region can boast of having Communist Party candidates for the President of the US? Good ole Gus Hall. Today there is more economic depression, but the folks still work hard to survive.
Yeah well you have been away to long then. It has become a sheet hole from one end to the other.
I go up every summer. I ride various sections of the Mesabi Trail on my bike and kayak on the lakes. It's absolutely wonderful. The Range has always had its poor and its drunks & druggies. That's nothing new. There are a lot of good people living there, but if you want them to kowtow to you, you're likely to get an a$$ full of buckshot instead.
I was born and raised there. My dad worked in the PI Pit then later became an Engineer for one of the mining companies. The Poor, the Drunks and the Druggies are far worse now than 40-50 years ago.