I feel for you MN and ND sledders. I grew up in Grand Forks and now live in Maryland (Navy brought me east eight years ago). Anyway, I have to trailer to PA and NY, and will go to Canada, but the winters have been bad for a very long time in ND and MN. The last time I rode in ND was in Jan of '97, as I was home for my grandpa's funeral, and the snow was great. Of course, the big flood came, and everyone saw it coming. It gets very old riding drifted ditches and running the rivers.