Local View: Up north, thickening lake ice an anticipated invitation

Local View: Up north, thickening lake ice an anticipated invitation

In Minnesota, where six months entombed in snow is just called winter, it’s not enough to simply walk on frozen lakes. No, we plow highways across them, set up neighborhoods with addresses on them, and drive two-ton pickups onto surfaces that, by all rights, should only be holding up figure skaters and 12-year-old hockey players. Even in Duluth, where most sane people are busy trying not to slide backward down Seventh Avenue East, folks still fi…