With an unusually warm winter this year, not even a full mile of track has snow. | Article/Image Credit: Cara Kopp, Northern News Now - Duluth, Minnesota 
Unusually Warm Winter causing concerns for Beargrease Marathon
If there is no snow, there is no Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.
Despite being a month and a half away from the 40th annual Beargrease marathon, Alex Angelos, who has worked for Beargrease for the last 35 years, is shocked by the lack of snow.
“This is ridiculous,” said Alex Angelos, a longtime Beargrease board member.
Over the years, he has faced all types of winter weather conditions.
“We’ve had a couple where we had to alter the start or postpone,” said Angelos. At this point in the season, Angelos says snow is usually covering some portions of the 300 miles of trail that runs from Duluth to Grand Portage.
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