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43 LEISURE Summertime is the perfect time for play.
46 ART Commissioning a custom horse portrait.
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62 WELLNESS Inside the otherworldly spa at Iceland’s Retreat at Blue Lagoon.
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Kate Nelson: Adventure can take on many forms. It can be as simple as stepping outside your comfort zone in your everyday life or as radical as ascending a summit without the assistance of ropes, harnesses and the like. That’s what climber Alex Honnold did, as captured by Oscar-winning adventure photographer (and Minnesota native) Jimmy Chin, who shared with us some of his favorite shots from his wild ride of a career (page 209). Our feature takes that one step further, offering up six over-the-top experiences that’ll send either your adrenaline or your anxiety skyrocketing (page 118). It’s worthy of a read, even if only to get your heart racing. Hayley Saunders: But adventure doesn’t have to involve great acts of daredevilry. It takes on new meaning when applied to beauty (page 58), style (page 67), or even food (page 202). You can awaken your inner explorer by trying something new, like taking an outmoded mode of transportation — say a train — across the United States (page 228) or submerging yourself in the healing waters of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland (page 62). KN: One of my favorite summertime activities is horseback riding. Through a very fortunate series of events, I found myself commissioning accomplished equestrian artist Julie Ferris to paint a portrait of my beloved horse, Whim (page 46). It was an incredible experience, from serendipitously stumbling upon her artwork in a gallery to hosting her here in Minneapolis so she could photograph Whim to seeing his likeness come to life upon her canvas. HS: Another stunning work of art in this issue is the fashion photography series by Sebastian Mader that exudes the ease and indulgence of summer (page 74). If you find yourself itching to host a garden party of your own, we’ve got you covered with the chicest outdoor games to hit the backyard (page 43). Time to get your bocce ball on. KN: Putting together this magazine has been an adventure in itself, not without its fair share of blood, sweat and tears. Which is why it’s so rewarding that one of our 2018 features, “What is Northern Food?” by Steve Hoffman, has been recognized for its excellence with the James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. You can re-read the acclaimed article at artfulliving.com/northern-food. HS: Summer is the perfect time to get outside and get outside your comfort zone. We hope this curated collection of content inspires you to take a walk on the wild side — whatever that might mean to you. Happy reading,
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From luxurious sedans to powerful sports cars,
Jaguar is known for crafting autos with performance at their core. This year, the automaker made its entrée into the all-electric world with the award-winning I-PACE. This midsize SUV comes equipped with two electric motors capable of delivering an impressive 234 miles of range without expelling any pollutants along the way. The shift toward all-electric is a welcome one. New emission standards have forced automakers to rethink their manufacturing practices, and this advancement is their answer — an almost unthinkable achievement just years ago. These vehicles promise less maintenance, increased safety, cheaper running costs and a cleaner environment for all. And with the I-PACE, Jaguar has The 2019 Jaguar I-PACE unveiled an all-electric luxury • Starting at $69,500 vehicle without rival. • 0 to 60 mph in 4.5 seconds Behind the steering wheel, the • 90 kWh battery capable of a overall driving characteristics parallel that of a sports car. 234-mile range on a single charge Given that there is no need for • Maximum 394 horsepower with a standard transmission, 512 pound-feet 60 mph is effortlessly reached • Up to 51 cubic feet of cargo space in just 4.5 seconds from a • Intuitive technology standstill. The SUV also adapts • Steering/lane keep assist to current driving conditions with • Adaptive cruise control Active Air Suspension, making handling more predictable. Inside, the aesthetic and comfort are second to none. With no engine taking up space up front, the I-PACE was designed with its first- and second-row seats positioned farther apart, allowing for extra legroom for all passengers as well as generous storage throughout. Similarly, the rear cargo room is impressively expansive. With the added bonus of a large panoramic sunroof up top, the SUV feels exceptionally spacious, making it ideal for daily driving. With the I-PACE, Jaguar has redefined all-electric. To learn more, visit Jaguar Minneapolis or log onto jaguarminneapolis.com.
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It’s a fact: Game time is just way more fun in the summer.
Daylight stretches into the evening hours, making it perfect for gathering with family and friends for some affable, even lively competition. Much like cards, darts or pool, these outdoor games are social ones, requiring players to take turns. This is ideal for drinks and conversations between turns without slowing the pace or having to restart altogether. And there is nothing like putting your own spin on the classics to take your party up a notch. Try pairing your favorite game with a signature cocktail. Bocce ball, also known as Italian lawn bowling, is one of the world’s oldest games and can be played just about anywhere. So it is fitting that it pairs perfectly with a classic negroni or a light white Frascati, considered the wine of Rome. Or arrange your croquet set on a freshly mowed lawn and host a day of wine and wickets. Croquet and rosé Saturdays are fast becoming a country-club favorite, as are competitive bean bag toss leagues. And with games as beautiful as these, we recommend getting a leg up on the competition and having a set of your own (designed by Minneapolis’s West Emory and available at Target and crateandbarrel.com). Throughout the country, homes with bocce courts, manicured croquet lawns or designated outdoor game areas are on the rise. Similarly, neighborhood amenities like residential clubs and courts are becoming increasingly popular among families and retirees alike. So go out and grab some handsome, regulation-ready games that scream, “Play on!” It doesn’t matter if you are a player or a spectator — just prepare to have some fun.
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Two years ago while staying at the artful Grand Bohemian Hotel
Charleston, I found myself marveling at stunning horse portraiture on display at the onsite gallery. Upon closer inspection, I discovered it was created by renowned equestrian artist Julie Ferris. Of course, I thought. A lifelong equestrienne myself, I’d long admired the 29-year-old, SCAD-trained painter’s art from afar via Instagram, but quite serendipitously here I was, standing face-to-face with her wonderous works, beholding them in all their glory. I must have stood and stared at those paintings long enough to grab the attention of Gallery Director Dayna Caldwell, who made her way over to tell me more about the artist. As it turns out, the Grand Bohemian is one of a handful of galleries across the South that represent Ferris. I was so in awe of her artwork that hours later I brought it up while chatting with the hotel’s general manager, mentioning that I someday would love to commission a portrait of my horse, a Friesian gelding named Whim. My flight back to Minneapolis hadn’t even landed when Caldwell sent me an email: Might she assist in arranging a custom portrait of Whim? Ferris’s waitlist was a few years out, but she had a spot reserved for a Grand Bohemian commission the following summer. It was a starsaligning opportunity that I simply couldn’t pass up. Soon I was in talks with Ferris to determine the specifics: dimensions, proportion, level of detail and more. She first photographs her equine
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subjects, which allows her to get to know them (and their owners), so last summer, she made her way up from Atlanta to spend a few days with my horse and me. An accomplished equestrienne herself, Ferris knows her way around a barn, and Whim soaked up every ounce of her attention. Next came a particularly challenging part of the process: selecting a single image to serve as the inspiration for the portrait. Having spent plenty of time with us (including enthusiastically tagging along to a local dressage show), Ferris helped narrow down the options, and we landed on a photo we agreed best represents Whim’s in-your-pocket personality. And that’s when the magic started to happen. Soon Ferris was sending me progress updates: first, an oil sketch with a basic outline. Then she recreated the dynamic shades of his black coat reflecting in the summer sun using a palette of blues, grays and purples. Finally, she added in the most minute of details, down to each individual hair. And slowly, stroke by stroke, layer by layer, my sweet Whim began to appear on her canvas. In April, Ferris informed me that she had applied the final layer of paint and that once it dried, the work of art would be ready to make its journey to me. Upon receiving the shipment, I carefully unwrapped it layer by layer until there it was: a portrait of Whim so uncanny in its likeness that I just stood and stared. I’d seen it come to life under Ferris’s talented eye through countless photos, but now, here I was, standing face-to-face with this wonderous work, beholding it in all its glory. Today, it has taken its rightful place as the pièce de résistance of our home, an awe-inspiring homage to the magnificent creature I’m fortunate to call my own.
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own countdown at various intervals, like at 10, seven and three minutes. With each signal, the skipper can synchronize his watch on the fly to match the official countdown and thus maneuver to full advantage until the very last second — meaning his team is perfectly positioned to cross the line at the very second the starting signal is sounded. The aesthetics of the Yacht-Master II are also pioneering for the acclaimed watchmaker. “Historically, Rolex has only produced classic smaller sizes,” Talbert explains. “The Yacht-Master II, with a 44-millimeter case, is the largest watch in the Rolex catalog. It’s sporty and easy to read, as well as water-resistant up to 100 meters.” This precision timer is useful for sailors and landlubbers alike. For any undertaking that requires accurate timing — from grilling to golfing to hiking — this revolutionary timepiece fits the bill. “Investing in a Rolex like the Yacht-Master II is investing in an heirloom,” says Talbert. “When you pass your watch on to the next generation, you pass on a lifetime of memories.”
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that require meticulously timed precision. A minute early to an appointment? Life goes on. Not so in the sport of sailing, where perfect synchronization is fundamental. “At the crucial starting sequence of a regatta, the boats tack back and forth without crossing the starting line,” explains Aaron Talbert, who manages Wixon Jewelers’ watch department. “Each skipper must cross the starting line at the exact moment the signal starts the race. If they cross too early, they are automatically disqualified. If they pass too late, they lose precious time.” Rolex spent an astonishing 35,000 hours developing its solution to the fascinating challenge of achieving perfect synchronicity between individual watches and official timing. The Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master II is the only existing timepiece with such unprecedented flexibility. “The watch allows sailors to set a countdown timer 10 minutes before the race begins,” says Talbert. Race officials signal their
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Every now and then, along comes a beauty service so revolutionary that it’s considered a bit, well,
insane. Would you endure bee stings in the name of reduced inflammation? What about set your hair on fire — literally — to eliminate split ends? Yes, these are actual treatments, and they, along with a few other extreme methods, are gaining popularity in the relentless pursuit of self-care. The saying goes that beauty is pain, but we’ll let you be the judge as to if these five out-there services are worth the pain.
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PARIS Visit Paris and become a flâneur, a term used by French poet Charles Baudelaire to describe the passionate wanderers who roamed the City of Lights. There is no direct English translation, which isn’t surprising considering how different our cultures are. There’s a romance to smoking cigarettes, indulging in pastries without an ounce of guilt and basking in the sun at Place des Vosges in the middle of a workday while reading a book of poetry. Of course, if you’re a true Parisian, you’ll manage to look effortlessly chic while doing it, too. – A M B E R G I B S O N
RITZ PARIS The most iconic hotel in all of Paris is undoubtedly the Ritz Paris at Place Vendôme. Opened in 1898 by legendary Swiss hotelier César Ritz, this grand dame is as luxurious as ever. The word “ritzy” was invented here. Cole Porter wrote songs at the bar, and Ernest Hemingway famously “liberated” that same bar from the Nazis after World War II. Mademoiselle Coco Chanel lived here for 34 years, and today, the hotel boasts the world’s only Chanel spa for all your beauty and skincare needs. After a four-year renovation, the Ritz reopened in 2016 with fewer rooms and more suites (71 of them, to be exact). Many prestige suites are named for famous guests throughout history such as Charlie Chaplin, Frédéric Chopin and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The updated lighter color palette feels more modern while preserving the 18th century French decor, including the founder’s beloved brass swan faucets in all bathrooms. ritzparis.com
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LE CINQ There are nine restaurants in Paris bestowed with three Michelin stars. This is the best. Le Cinq is the enchanting epitome of French fine dining, a perfect balance between opulence and finesse in the art deco landmark Four Seasons Hotel George V. Chef Christian Le Squer’s deconstructed interpretation of French onion soup is a prime example: incredibly robust in flavor but refined in composition. Plump Brittany prawns are topped with light frothy mayonnaise tableside. And for the ultimate indulgence, there’s even an entire black truffle baked in brioche puff pastry lined with foie gras. The service is warmer and even more thoughtful than at other fine-dining institutions. Case in point: When you mention that the ever-so-slightly charred kouign-amann that concludes the meal is the best you’ve ever had, you’re sent home with two more for the next morning, along with a box of bonbons and caramels from the elaborate mignardise trolley. restaurant-lecinq.com
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MESSIKA Valérie Messika grew up playing with gemstones with her diamond dealer father, so it’s only natural that her eponymous jewelry line features the most precious of stones. Launched in 2005, the brand is contemporary and fashionforward, catching the attention of millennial women with playful touches like sliding diamonds in the best-selling Move collection. “I want to put the diamond on the skin like a tattoo,” she explains, describing her signature tennis bracelet that’s both delicate yet technically strong, molding perfectly to hug your wrist. Embodying Parisian style and entrepreneurial spirit, the chic working mom adds, “Diamonds are something cool a woman can buy for herself.” Up until now, Messika has been a well-kept Parisian secret, but the brand is launching its first U.S. boutiques this year in Miami and Los Angeles. The current collection inspired by the Arizona desert includes feathers, wood and Native American motifs. messika.com
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MONTE XANIC The first boutique winery in Mexico, Monte Xanic is a pioneer in the Guadalupe Valley. It is still privately owned and offers comprehensive tours and tastings, making this a popular stop for first-time visitors. Vintner Cristina Pino Villar runs a tight ship and takes an analytical, data-driven approach to winemaking, having spent the majority of her career teaching and researching. She holds a doctorate in viticulture and enology, and uses a state-of-the-art laboratory to conduct microbiological tests on grapes throughout the year. Sauvignon blanc is Monte Xanic’s largest production, but its most exclusive is the Gran Ricardo Bordeaux-style blend, made predominantly with cabernet sauvignon. Half of the winery’s 20 labels are exported to the United States, and you’ll find Monte Xanic on wine lists at Topolobampo in Chicago and the French Laundry in Napa Valley. But if you make your way to the Guadalupe Valley, you can sip a glass of rosé or chardonnay on the patio overlooking the property’s small lake and vineyards. montexanic.com.mx
Rugged and raw, Mexico’s Guadalupe Valley is the acoustic, stripped-down version of Napa Valley. The first generation of vintners in this blossoming wine region feels free to explore and experiment with varietals and techniques. Along with chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, there’s great syrah, sauvignon blanc and cabernet franc. The best part? From San Diego, it’s a relatively easy two-hour drive across the border and down the coast. There are more than 120 wineries here to discover, but many of the roads are still unpaved and GPS service is spotty, so consider a helicopter tour as a stress-free mode of transport. –A . G .
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CASA 8 With just eight rooms, Casa 8 at Bruma is a hot reservation you’ll want to book well in advance. Every room is unique, and all are connected by a main house and common area, including a heated pool, deck, kitchen, and outdoor living room with vineyard views. Casa 8 is wonderful for groups and a great place to make new friends sharing a bottle of wine around the communal table or playing a game of billiards. Guest quarters are sparsely decorated, with no plastic anywhere to be found and instead natural, recycled materials in its place. Rough stone walls create the feeling that you’re in a cave, but in a chic, sustainable way. In true B & B fashion, friendly locals cook up breakfast at your leisure each morning, including chilaquiles topped with farmfresh eggs. Along with Casa 8, Bruma’s agritourism project encompasses a boutique winery and Fauna restaurant for rustic, wood-fired food. bruma.mx
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ORIGEN Distinctly Mexican yet unlike anything you’ve tasted before, the food at Origen is simultaneously bold and dainty, a captivating interpretation of Ensenada’s agricultural bounty. Dishes change daily depending on what’s available from the two organic onsite gardens. The restaurant also offers beautiful panoramic views of the valley. Reimagining his childhood favorites, 27-year-old Omar Valenzuela oversees all fare at Encuentro Guadalupe (including an incredible poolside breakfast) and is one of several young homegrown chefs shaking up the culinary scene in the Guadalupe Valley. His cosmopolitan cooking is remarkable considering he has never worked outside the region. Proteins get pretty adventurous, including luscious cubes of slow-cooked cow’s udder served with crunchy radishes. Nasturtium cake with lemon gelato tastes downright virtuous, while the final mignardise of fried Brussels sprouts leaves sandwiching dulce de leche leaves you wanting more. grupoencuentro.com.mx
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ISLE OF WIGHT Where she sits just off England’s southern coast, the Isle of Wight is a fantasy. This well-off-the-beatenpath destination is known for its beauty and beaches, its dining and dinosaurs, its history and romance. It’s a world gifted with unrivaled natural allure thanks to the jagged cliffs that frame its shores, the coastal scenery that surrounds the land, and the sandy beaches that touch the waters of the Solent strait. From Queen Victoria to Winston Churchill to Charles Dickens, the isle has been a refuge for royalty and noblemen, poets and playwrights. And to this day, she remains a sparkling jewel in the UK’s crown. –G I N A S A M A R O T T O
THE ROYAL While less than 200 years old, the Royal in Ventnor has an atmosphere even the most passionate of history buffs can appreciate. Originally a coach inn, it was renamed in celebration of Queen Victoria’s patronage. While other isle accommodations have not always been known for their opulent trappings (Charles I was imprisoned within the nearby Carisbrooke Castle before his execution in 1649), the hotel has served as the luxury lap since 1832. A Michelin charter member boasting a place in the first guide published in 1911, this elegant inn has commanded a listing in every edition since. Designed in the style of an English country house replete with wrought-iron veranda and sweeping coastal views, the Royal is a romantic daydream. Adventurers will enjoy one of its more unique offerings, the Royal Rib. This sleek, swift speedboat is available to charter by the day and comes complete with skipper. And be sure to make time for an indulgent spa treatment followed by a dip in the outdoor heated pool; it’s the perfect prelude to the hotel’s acclaimed afternoon tea. royalhoteliow.co.uk
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ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL Founded by brothers Bill, Ray and Ron Foulk, the Isle of Wight Festival has long brought the biggest names in music to this tiny English haven. Since its debut in August of 1969 — just 11 days after performers at Woodstock took their final bow — the extravaganza has welcomed everyone from Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix to Leonard Cohen and Jethro Tull to its open-air stage. It is the UK’s longest running music festival and one of the most popular across all of Europe. In fact, the event has seen such success that in 1971 — after an estimated 60,000 attendees flocked to the Isle of Wight for the show — British Parliament passed legislature precluding overnight, outdoor gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the isle without special licensing. But fear not: With all necessary permitting properly filed, this year’s event is scheduled for June 13–16 with promised hot-ticket performances from Lily Allen, George Ezra, KT Tunstall and more, as well as a wide array of films, theater productions and the like throughout the four-day affair. isleofwightfestival.com
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THOMPSON’S The Isle of Wight has evolved from a seaside holiday spot to a lauded gastronomical destination. Leading that charge is Robert Thompson, Michelin’s youngest British starred chef. Debuting in 2015 to rousing applause, his eponymous eatery features contemporary British cuisine served in an inviting, open-kitchen space. The menu here is direct and to the point, comprising inspired, seasonal, locally sourced dishes crafted to perfection. Pick from the à-la-carte offerings, try the two- or three-course set menu, or indulge in the elaborate eight-course tasting menu served with or without a well-selected wine flight (we recommend with). Pressed pork belly cassoulet followed by ravioli with duck egg yolk and truffled potato, anyone? Can’t get enough of the talented chef or his notable cuisine? Reserve a seat for one of the morning demonstrations, where Thompson himself guides attendees through the preparation of his menu du jour before serving cocktails and a three-course lunch in the upstairs dining room. robertthompson.co.uk
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GRAND CAYMAN Nestled in the heart of the Caribbean Sea with Cuba to the north and Jamaica to the east, Grand Cayman is a tiny island surrounded by some of the world’s most beautiful coral reefs and crystal-clear aquamarine waters. Whether you’re traveling with your adventureseeking family or a romance-loving significant other, this destination has plenty to offer. Part of the British West Indies, it boasts a sense of order along with the best service in the Caribbean, proving that smaller may indeed be better. –F R A N K R O F F E R S A N D H AY L E Y S AU N D E R S
THE RITZ-CARLTON, GRAND CAYMAN This supersized, manicured resort occupies the island’s east-west point, spanning 144 acres smack in the middle of famous Seven Mile Beach facing west over the Caribbean. Its 375 guest rooms and suites are situated in two towers positioned on both sides of West Bay Road connected by a sky bridge. The chic, crisp decor features a traditional design, local artwork, and off-white furnishings with a beachy color scheme. Spacious marble bathrooms with plush robes and Asprey toiletries make for a spa-like experience. Outdoor activities abound, with two oceanfront pools, a small marina, a golf course, a tennis center and basketball courts on the property. La Prairie Spa brings Swiss wellness techniques and treatments to the Caribbean. And a 9,000-square-foot fitness center is available for resort guests daily. The dining scene is anchored by Blue from chef Eric Ripert. It is one of the region’s best fine-dining venues, with a menu boasting daily seafood catches and the most popular dishes from Ripert’s Le Bernardin in New York City. Seven is a visually striking steakhouse with ocean views. Andiamo is an alfresco Italian eatery serving housemade pasta, pizza and flatbreads. And just off the lobby, Taikun offers a vast sushi collection with real wasabi grated tableside. The resort is family-friendly, and the hands-on Ambassadors of the Environment program developed by Jean-Michel Cousteau keeps children occupied. The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman features the most exceptional service in the Caribbean infused with a sense of place and order. ritzcarlton.com
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KIMPTON SEAFIRE RESORT + SPA The latest luxury property to make its debut on Grand Cayman is the Kimpton Seafire. With seven miles of white sandy beaches, ample seaside activities, daily yoga sessions and healing spa treatments, there is truly something for everyone. The light, airy lobby is modern yet homey with sleek decor, bold pops of color, and custom local art. In the communal library, guests are treated to complimentary coffee and tea each morning and wine and light bites come evening. There are three onsite restaurants, a chef’s counter experience, and a grab-and-go option for smoothies and picnic fixings. Coccoloba is steps from the sea and the perfect spot to nosh on fish tacos and sip a piña colada. Ave and Avecita offer simple yet vibrant cuisine, with dishes ranging from Spanish-style tapas to fresh Mediterranean fare. The 226-room property has been exceptionally designed. Accommodations range from spacious guest rooms to over-thetop suites to secluded bungalows. Most boast dramatic water views through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and all have balconies beckoning you outdoors. Other room amenities include walkin closets, separate seating areas, king beds with Frette linens, and expansive bathrooms with rain showers, oversize soaking tubs and double vanities. Families will appreciate the option for bunk beds and an additional bathroom. Outside, lush foliage blankets the grounds leading to the infinity pool, where sunbathers can take in the turquoise water views from the comfort of their umbrella-shaded lounge chairs. Beach goers can enjoy the soft sand and calm waters, an ideal spot to paddleboard or lounge on a raft, complimentary for all hotel guests. And beach and pool cabanas are the ultimate indulgence, where attendants ensure no need goes unmet. seafireresortandspa.com
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STINGRAY CITY Located in the North Sound, aptly named Stingray City is one of Grand Cayman’s most popular attractions. Ocean aficionados can have up-close and personal encounters with marine life like wild Atlantic stingrays that clock in at 150 pounds and five feet in width. Multiple outfitters offer excursions, but among them, Stingray City Cayman Islands is the best, with a variety of daily tours and a team of tenured, knowledgeable crew members. It is thought that Stingray City’s origins began to take shape decades ago when the creatures started gathering in the area to take advantage of the feasting grounds provided by fishermen returning from the deep ocean waters, who would clean their catch in the shallows. Over time, the animals began to associate the sound of a boat engine with food. Visitors to Stingray City can feed, hold and take selfies with the friendly giant rays. stingraycitycaymanislands.com
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SIX EXTREME ADVENTURES SURE TO GET YOUR ADRENALINE PUMPING. BY G I N A SA M A R OT TO I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y M A R T I N S AT Í
There is a time in life when the ordinary just won’t do. A time when you crave a hands-on
approach to the kind of chest-clutching excitement formerly reserved for heroes. A time when your ears pound with the rhythm of adventure. A time when you crave an escape from the mundane as profoundly as you crave the air you breathe. This is the stuff that extreme dreams are made of. And when you find your thoughts thrust eons beyond the everyday, you need something out of this world. You need intense activities designed to reach out and grab you in an unrelenting grip. Insane excursions simultaneously heart-pounding and not for the faint of heart. Exponential encounters that exist without equal. For the adrenaline junkie lusting to unearth the pinnacle of excitement, here are some of the world’s most gasp-worthy experiences. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy read.
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hamonix-Mont-Blanc, long lauded as one of the most beautiful ski areas in the world, is now the epicenter of an entirely different adventure-driven sport — and the basophobia-plagued need not apply. Similar to skydiving, wingsuiting is said to be as close as you can come to soaring. What sets it apart is simple: A wingsuit dive requires, naturally, a wingsuit. That is, a garment that adds surface via fabric between the legs and under the arms. Also called a birdman suit, it enables a significant increase in lift, resulting in a markedly slower descent (as low as 25 mph compared to the 120 mph a tandem skydiver can expect) and thus greatly prolonging the time you are in free fall. Still interested? You’ll have to do a lot of mundane skydiving before making your debut. As per the U.S. Parachute Association, would-be wingsuiters need to rack up no less than 200 skydives to qualify for training. Scenic though France may be, you needn’t travel to Europe to give wingsuiting a try as there are hundreds of stateside drop zones from which to choose. Florida’s Skydive City offers a First Flight Course, complete with ground instruction, wingsuit rental, video, debrief and solo clearance, while Wicked Wingsuits is an all-in-one resource that can not only outfit you but also hook you up with a professional coach.
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ou’ve conquered Hawaii’s Banzai Pipeline, mastered California’s Mavericks and burst the Bubble in Fuerteventura, Spain. So what’s a surfer to do? Simple: Head to the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range near León, Nicaragua, and hang 10 down a volcano. No, you won’t be catching a wave of molten lava. Volcano surfing takes place on the slopes of (mostly) inactive volcanoes. Although peaks in places like Hawaii, Ecuador and Fiji are being surfed, Cerro Negro in western Nicaragua is a clear favorite among the sport’s most impassioned aficionados. According to legend, volcano surfing first erupted (see what we did there) in 2004, when a man by the name of Daryn Webb decided to ride a discarded mini fridge down the side of the Nicaraguan behemoth. No one knows what exactly happened to the fridge, but both the surfer and the sport survived, and since then, its popularity has grown exponentially. With all due respect to Mr. Webb and his mini fridge, you are best served by engaging a guide before pushing off the peak. Project Expedition and Vapues Tours both offer excursions including overland travel from León, bilingual guides, technical training, board use, and safety equipment. You will be led to the top of Cerro Negro — a rough hike thanks to the steep incline and loose rocks — before taking the 2,300-foot plunge down the side of the volcano. Cheers to sticking that landing.
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n Iceland, world-class heliskiing is nothing short of an art form. Outfitters like Viking Heliskiing offer private outings, one-on-one instruction, top-of-the-line equipment and the like. You can experience similar excursions in New Zealand with High Peak Heliski or stateside in Alaska with Black Ops Valdez. But heliskiing is so 2018. All the cool kids know that the best way to find virgin powder is to take to the skies in a zeppelin before repelling out to conquer the pristine, unsullied swaths of snow below. Pioneered by Stefan Ager, Andreas Gumpenberger and Fabian Lentsch, the sport made its debut earlier this year when the trio abseiled from the safety of an airship floating above the Austrian Alps to ski their way down the 7,326-foot Kleiner Valkastiel. Alas, despite the notable acumen of the athletes involved, it was the preparation rather than the execution that proved to be the activity’s biggest obstacle. Wading through endless red tape to obtain the necessary permitting coupled with the challenge of engaging a ready, willing and able airship operator (as it turns out, they are few and far between) results in a woeful lack of zeppelin skiing options. Sadly, this means you’ll have to wait a bit longer before you too can launch yourself from an airship to hit the slopes. So go ahead and strap on your bindings, but don’t cancel your chopper just yet.
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t’s a fixer-upper of a planet, but we could make it work,” remarked Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, about the possibility of settling on Mars. Indeed, space truly is the final frontier, and regardless of your willingness to admit as much, there are scores of us still firmly committed to our “When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut” phase. Well space rangers, consider your wishes granted. From simulated training while firmly planted on terra firma to catapulting into space via a very real hydrogen-oxygen rocket, the ability to indulge your inner galactic explorer has blasted its way out of fantasy and landed squarely in reality. Kennedy Space Center has two rocket launches planned for this summer and with them a curated Feel the Heat package designed for those craving a front-row view. Bringing you as close to the launch pad as possible, it includes live reports, communicatorled commentary, up-close encounters with the Mars Rover Vehicle Navigator, and special appearances by veteran astronauts like Bob Springer. Want even more Space Center excitement? Sign up for the Astronaut Training Experience and take your first simulated spacewalk in a microgravity environment or land on the Red Planet, all without leaving sunny Florida. If you are bored by mere simulations and have seriously unlimited means, Space Adventures awaits. To date, the high-flying company has already successfully launched seven clients into orbit, who have cumulatively traveled nearly 30 million miles and spent more than 80 days in space. Offering several bespoke experiences, including the chance to be the first private citizen to walk in space, Space Adventures breathes life into the dreams of celestial-lusting civilians.
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s astutely explained by the International Rock Climbing School, “Free solo climbing is usually done either by complete idiots or climbing geniuses or Siberians. Members of all three groups die regularly. It is highly not recommended to anyone!” Enough said. This wildly extreme form of rock climbing involves ascending without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment. And despite the frequency of injuries and deaths associated with it, climbers are clamoring to give free soloing a go, citing the purist beauty that exists when summiting sans traditional aids. The sport was thrust into the spotlight when Alex Honnold’s record-breaking 2017 free solo ascent of California’s El Capitan was made into the National Geographic documentary Free Solo. Directed by adventure photographer (and Minnesota native) Jimmy Chin, the Oscar-winning film debuted last summer at the Telluride Film Festival, and would-be soloists have been salivating ever since. While the desire to forgo the use of climbing accoutrement to instead rely on your physical prowess and mental determination is heady, given the plethora of potential outcomes filed under “What could possibly go wrong?” it is readily discouraged. As a reasonable alternative, aid climbing offers you the adrenaline rush you’re craving without the treacherous risk associated with free soloing. Washington’s American Alpine Institute offers a four-day aid climbing and big wall technique course that promises to boost your climbing acumen.
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The Father of All Escape Artists
The High-Flying Glass Ceiling Breaker
Nicknamed the Flying Angel thanks to her good looks and her ability to, well, fly, Debbie Lawler was America’s stunt sweetheart in the 1970s. This extreme sports maven paved the way for other women wanting to ride with the big boys, once quipping, “When people say something can’t be done, I go out and do it.” Often ranked alongside the stunt supermen of the era, Evel Knievel and Super Joe Einhorn, she possessed an uncanny ability to shatter both stereotypes and world records. And despite a penchant for donning her lucky orange bra when she jumped, nothing could slow Lawler’s meteoric rise, not even her gender. After breaking Knievel’s long jump record by launching herself and her motorcycle over 16 trucks at the Houston Astrodome, the stuntman (rather misogynistically) was quoted as saying, “I can spit farther than she can jump.” He ultimately reclaimed the record (albeit by only one truck), leaving Lawler to live in infamy as the lesser Evel.
The king of escape and grand master of all things (seemingly) impossible, Harry Houdini became a household name in the late 19th century as the world’s first celebrity illusionist. Known for maneuvering himself out of constraints and situations that would have landed a lesser man squarely in the afterworld, he handily released himself from the belly of a whale, a jail cell within Murderers’ Row, a shipping carton tossed into the East River, and what was billed as his Chinese Water Torture Cell — not to mention various leg irons, suspended straitjackets and the like. In the end, it was science (sans fiction) that killed the great Houdini. Testing the illusionist’s claim that he could withstand any blow to the abdomen, a college student by the name of Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead slugged him four times. Not expecting the punches, Houdini doubled over in pain but went on to perform that evening. He was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly thereafter, subsequently developed peritonitis and ultimately died in 1926.
In the early days of aviation when just getting on a plane (even without TSA checkpoints) was an act of bravado, Bessie Coleman already had her head in the clouds. Dissatisfied with her job as a manicurist at a Chicago barbershop, she vowed to find a way to turn her dream of becoming the first female African American pilot into reality. Despite (or perhaps because of ) being denied acceptance into every U.S. flight school, she taught herself French, moved to Europe and attended the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation. Specializing in stunts, acrobatic flying and parachute jumping, Coleman earned a lucrative income — not to mention a place of honor in aviation history — by barnstorming and performing death-defying aerial tricks. She soared above the glass ceiling again in 1922, becoming the first African American woman to make a public flight in the United States. Sadly, her life was cut short in 1926 when her plane crashed during rehearsals for an aerial show performance.
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According to Hollywood heavy hitter Quentin Tarantino, the 1992 flick Police Story 3: Supercop features the “greatest stunts ever filmed in any movie.” We can’t disagree. After all, in one memorable scene, Jackie Chan tries to stop a fleeing helicopter while suspended from a speeding train. The feat made for great footage but ended poorly when a malfunction sent the chopper colliding violently into the actor. For most of us, getting hit by a helicopter would be reason enough to hit the retirement button, but it takes more than an errant whirlybird to ground Chan, whose decades-long career includes such stunts as leaping atop a moving hot-air balloon in Armour of God, falling six stories in Project A and crawling across hot coals in The Legend of Drunken Master. The actor ultimately announced his retirement in 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival. To the best of our knowledge, he didn’t make the announcement while riding a breaching narwhal (though we bet he could have).
Decades before Michael Phelps was so much as a glimmer in his parents’ eyes, Gertrude Ederle was one of swimming’s most illustrious icons. Known for the incredible speed of her eight-beat crawl (eight kicks for each full arm stroke), she held 29 national and world records and in 1924 was a member of the U.S. Olympic Team that brought home gold from the Paris games. In 1925, she made her first (albeit unsuccessful) attempt to swim the English Channel. She returned the following year, and as it turns out, the second time was the charm for Ederle. She completed the swim to Kent, England, in 14 hours, 31 minutes — soundly smashing the men’s record by 1 hour, 59 minutes (we think she might have frittered away that extra minute so as not to embarrass the boys). While a back injury in 1933 ended her competitive career, Ederle continued to swim publicly, most notably in the Billy Rose Aquacade at the New York World’s Fair.
While most kids have goals surrounding video-game high scores, Jordan Romero’s list of dream accomplishments is a bit loftier: 29,029 feet loftier, to be exact. In 2011, the mountaineering California teen made history by summiting Everest at the ripe old age of 13. Having already conquered Kilimanjaro in 2006, Australia’s Mount Kosciuszko in 2007 and Denali in 2008 (to name just a few), he naturally set his sights on Everest, his seventh major summit — and the one that catapulted him into fame for successfully summiting the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. All this before he was old enough to legally drive. Following his remarkable success, the Chinese government implemented restrictions mandating climbers be at least 18 years of age. In doing so, the country ensured the safety of its impressionable youth while guaranteeing Romero’s record as the world’s most successful teenage summiteer could never be broken.
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ong before Ishmael first laid eyes on Moby Dick, whales have fascinated humankind. With their soulful eyes, curious nature and playful antics that bely their school bus–sized bulk, these mammoth mammals are easy to crush on. And with whales found throughout all of the Seven Seas, you can play with a pod practically anywhere in the world. In the Polynesian paradise of Tonga, WhaleSwim Adventures offers glamping trips in which you stay in a beachfront tent tricked out with hardwood floors, an en-suite bathroom, and all the de rigueur trappings of a five-star holiday. Yet despite such indulgence, the whales are the real appeal: You spend your days paddling alongside the humpbacked bathing beauties who call the warm waters of Tonga home. Not to be outdone by their more familiar baleen brethren, blue whales weigh in at up to 200 tons and reach 100 feet in length. Their tongues alone weigh as much as an elephant, their hearts matching the heft of a car — so naturally, the most adrenaline-seeking amongst us feel compelled to meet them face-to-face. Enter Natural World Safaris, a UK-based outfitter catering to those looking for a whale of a good time. Among their itineraries is a Sri Lankan excursion where you work alongside a research team and get up close and personal with blue whales — all while having your magical experience immortalized by renowned wildlife photographers, of course.
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5905 Boulder Bridge Lane, Shorewood
An architectural masterpiece in a park-like setting, this home lives to entertain both inside and out. Interior features formal and informal living spaces, movie theater, and catering kitchen. Deeded Lake Minnetonka access. 5 BED / 5 BATH $3,495,000
Drew Hueler
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3350 Fox Street Orono A world-class combination of timeless architectural design and craftsmanship, this private sanctuary offers Old World elegance, modern conveniences, breathtaking gardens and extraordinary water views. Amenities include a tranquil 7.2-acre setting with 700+ feet of south-facing shoreline, palatial master suite, flawlessly designed gourmet kitchen, astonishing resort-style pool, and pool house. 5 BED / 8 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
Cindy Redmond
612-850-7015 cindy@cindyredmond.com
1716 Colfax Avenue S. Minneapolis Beautiful, luxurious and elegant. Reminiscent of the double gallery–style maison of New Orleans, it is spacious yet intimate and an artistic wonder in itself. There are rare aesthetic touches such as imported French wallpaper and custom carpentry throughout. Lake of the Isles and Kenwood Park are just a few blocks away. Brilliant city skyline views and Thomas Lowry Park. 6 BED / 8 BATH $1,995,000
The Fogel Group Tash and Jimmy Fogel
612-924-4377 tash@cbburnet.com 612-889-2000 thefogelgroup@cbburnet.com
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DREW HUELER
EXCEPTIONAL OUTCOMES
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4632 Palmer Pointe Road, Minnetrista
835 Hunt Farm Road, Orono
151 Bell Street, Excelsior
5905 Boulder Bridge Lane, Shorewood
14413 Westridge Drive, Eden Prairie
7 George Street, Excelsior
Stunning 1-story Denali build on 160+ feet of lakeshore. 4 BED / 6 BATH $2,795,000
Mark D. Williams build nestled in charming Excelsior. 2 blocks from Lake Minnetonka. 4 BED / 3 BATH $1,299,000
1-level living at its best. Private setting and stunning views of McCoy Lake. 5 BED / 5 BATH $779,500
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Huntington Manor: an estate home rooted in classical architecture with a steampunk twist. 6 BED / 7 BATH $9,950,000
Gracious living spaces and elegant finishes make this home an entertainer’s dream. 5 BED / 5 BATH $3,495,000
The perfect opportunity to build a lakeside retreat. Gorgeous Lake Minnetonka views. $795,000
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STICKNEY REAL ESTATE 9 5 2 - 4 7 6 - 3 6 9 4 | G S T I C K N E Y @ C B B U R N E T. C O M
365 Highcroft Lane, Wayzata
5820 Loring Drive, Minnetrista
2172 Homestead Trail, Medina
154 Glenbrook Road N., Wayzata
11981 Eaken Avenue SE, Delano
275 Cheyenne Trail, Medina
Stunning masterpiece built by Cudd in 2005. Set upon a private but usable 1.85 acres. 5 BED / 5 BATH $3,195,000
Extraordinary newer construction featuring breathtaking views overlooking 22 serene acres. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,799,000
Enjoy this 1.5-story country home that overlooks a breathtaking 45 acres in Delano. 6 BED / 6 BATH $1,250,000
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Incredibly remodeled Lake Minnetonka retreat overlooking 153 feet of picturesque shoreline. 6 BED / 6 BATH $2,295,000
Stunning 2015 custom-built home in downtown Wayzata tucked away on a quiet cul-de-sac. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,350,000
Beautifully updated home on 5+ acres with barn, pool and sport court. Orono schools. 5 BED / 4 BATH $899,000
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MEREDITH HOWELL
WITH EXPERIENCE COMES SUCCESS
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1330 Willowbrook Drive Medina Nestled in the privacy of the ever-changing woods just minutes from charming Wayzata village. Impeccably maintained with the highest craftsmanship. Car lovers will rejoice with the oversize 4-car polished garage sure to please. 4 BED / 5 BATH $1,995,000
3594 Northome Road Deephaven Elegant 1-level living perfect for entertaining. Courtyard terrace centered around pool and gardens. Pool cabana complete with changing rooms and bathroom. 4-season porch transforms into a screen porch with a touch of a button. Private wooded setting. 3 BED / 5 BATH $1,495,000
2020 Kimberly Lane N. Plymouth Beautifully maintained 2-story on a quiet cul-de-sac. Sun-filled rooms with many updates: newer kitchen, updated bathrooms and gleaming hardwood floors. Perfect location just minutes from charming Lake Minnetonka village of Wayzata. Spacious backyard. 5 BED / 5 BATH $749,900
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ELLEN DEHAVEN DEHAVEN DEWING
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20760 Linwood Road, Deephaven
430 Ferndale Road W., Wayzata
3705 Northome Road, Deephaven
2730 Woolsey Lane, Woodland
2440 Old Beach Road, Orono
5425 Bartlett Boulevard, Mound
The ultimate in design and construction with perfect Lower lakeshore. A true masterpiece. 5 BED / 6 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
Like-new estate with 250 feet of shoreline, amenities galore, pool, and sport court. 5 BED / 6 BATH $5,395,000
Stunning French-inspired, fully updated home with 180 feet of lakeshore. Spectacular views. 4 BED / 4 BATH $3,345,000
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Private estate located on 2.61 acres with 180 feet of Main lakeshore. Walkable to town. 6 BED / 15 BATH $6,995,000
Unparalleled Wayzata estate on 4+ acres with 500 feet of lakeshore and pool. 6 BED / 6 BATH $4,750,000
Picture-perfect Nantucket-style home with fine finishes, sandy beach and south-facing lakeshore. 5 BED / 4 BATH $2,395,000
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2650 Northview Drive, Minnetrista
2520 Willow Drive, Medina
1000 Old Long Lake Road, Orono
116 Salem Church Road, Sunfish Lake
2501 Crosby Road, Minnetonka
9547 Sky Lane, Eden Prairie
Impeccably remodeled Whaletail Lake estate with guesthouse on 40 acres and 900+ feet of shoreline. 4 BED / 6 BATH $3,575,000
Gated estate on 2+ acres with luxurious finishes and home theater. Private setting 5 minutes to downtown Wayzata. 5 BED / 5 BATH $2,295,000
Enjoy 2.4+ private acres offering stunning Lake Minnetonka views. Open to all builders. $1,500,000
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Exceptionally designed home with open floor plan and indoor sport court. Serene 5-acre setting. 5 BED / 7 BATH $2,995,000
Gorgeous 2015-built home with high-end finishes and pool tucked away on 3.5 private acres. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,749,900
Beautifully built masterpiece with open floor plan and nature views. Quiet cul-de-sac setting. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,295,000
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KRISTI WEINSTOCK THE WEINSTOCK GROUP
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19340 Park Avenue, Wayzata
17587 Groveland Place, Wayzata
110 Brunswick Avenue N., Golden Valley
6807 3rd Street SE, Buffalo
Modern 2016 custom-built home with an open floor plan in an excellent location. Walking distance to Deephaven Beach and Thorpe Park. Enjoy gorgeous views of St. Louis Bay from the sun porch and great room. Located in the Minnetonka school district. 5 BED / 4 BATH $2,195,000
Great location just minutes from downtown Minneapolis. Stunning custom-built home by Wooddale Builders with open floor plan and tasteful finishes throughout. Details include arched doorways, wall of windows, screened porch, wonderful millwork, and built-ins. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,395,000
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Situated in a private cul-de-sac of 8 exclusive homes, this custom home is blocks from Groveland Elementary. Enjoy the screen porch with fireplace, lower-level in-floor heating, home theater, and wine cellar. Just steps from Lake Minnetonka and parks. 5 BED / 7 BATH $1,250,000
Wonderful opportunity to own a custom-built home on 2+ acres with 150 feet of sandy shoreline on Lake Charlotte. This home offers main-level living, walls of windows to enjoy the southern views, 6 garage stalls, a spacious deck, and an unfinished bonus room. 6 BED / 5 BATH $1,099,000
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MICHAEL B. STEADMAN 6 1 2 - 2 9 6 - 0 9 0 0 | M B S T E A D M A N @ C B B U R N E T. C O M
2842 Deer Hill Road Medina Cape Cod masterpiece from Wooddale Builders. Enameled woodwork and shiplap interior. Expansive porch with soaring stone fireplace and reclaimed wood beams. Lower level features alder cabinetry, sport court, billiard area and wine cellar. Gorgeous bluestone patio. 4 BED / 5 BATH $2,875,000
230 Calamus Circle Medina Stunning property in Wild Meadows. Main-floor master, chef’s kitchen, detailed woodwork throughout, nanny’s quarters with separate bath. Extensive landscaping and luxurious pool. Perfectly sited on 1.38 acres abutting a 200-acre conservation area. Wayzata schools. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,799,000
355 Lythrum Lane Medina Meticulously updated, this home is perfect from top to bottom. Large open floor plan, 2-story fireplace, lovely kitchen with granite counters. Lower level boasts an exceptional exercise room, wet bar, media room and new sauna. Demand Wild Meadows. Wayzata schools. 4 BED / 5 BATH $800,000
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3216 Robinsons Bay Road, Deephaven
16035 48th Avenue N., Plymouth
Tony Jewett
Jody Peterson Lodge and Karen Alton Danielson
Build your dream home on Robinsons Bay in Deephaven on this secluded, level, west-facing, 1-acre lot. 4 BED / 5 BATH $3,750,000 612-963-8851 | tjewett@cbburnet.com
612-386-8699 | jpetersonlodge@cbburnet.com
2650 Countryside Drive W., Orono
18322 Kylie Court, Minnetonka
Tim Beduhn
Craig Moen
Gorgeous updated Orono home has it all. Fabulous landscaped yard with pool and sport court. 5 BED / 6 BATH $1,299,900 612-275-4205 | tim.beduhn@cbburnet.com
Exceptional craftsmanship. Walkout 1-story overlooking woods and marshlands. Minnetonka schools. 4 BED / 5 BATH $1,100,000 612-850-7639 | cmoen@cbburnet.com
2927 Casco Point Road, Orono
4245 Trillium Lane E., Minnetrista
Carrie Hey
Jeff Martineau
Meticulous cottage on 50 feet of lakeshore. Original character with many updates. 2 BED / 1½ BATH $1,250,000 612-309-6022 | carrie@cbburnet.com
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Fabulous great-room ranch in Trillium of Lake Minnetonka. ž acre manicured grounds. 4 BED / 5 BATH $939,000 952-210-2626 | jmartineau@cbburnet.com
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341 Ramsey Road Wayzata Make your summer memories on this gorgeous Wayzata back patio. This property sits high at the end of a private drive surrounded by 100-year-old pines inside Harrington Gates. Completely remastered yet plenty of opportunity to create your own private retreat. 6 BED / 9 BATH $2,695,000
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1205 French Creek Drive Orono This estate with heated outdoor pool is built on the keystone lot in the private French Creek community. The residence has sweeping views of the 32-acre French Creek Preserve. 5 BED / 6 BATH $2,250,000
Tracy Larson
612-759-5158 tracy.larson@cbburnet.com
2845 West Road Wayzata Charming year-round home or cottage on Lake Minnetonka. Deeded access to 500 feet of Wayzata Bay shoreline. Private beach, association dock, dock slip based on availability. Neighborhood association amenities include a playground, lighted tennis court and more. 4 BED / 3 BATH $525,000
Kristi Weinstock The Weinstock Group 612-309-8332 kdweinstock@cbburnet.com
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JOHN C. ADAMS
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4615 Merilane, Edina
20395 Linwood Road, Deephaven
929 Portland Avenue, #2201, Minneapolis
5841 Robert Road, Independence
To-be-built concept designed by Rauscher & Associates and built by John Kraemer & Sons on a 1.8-acre setting. 4 BED / 4 BATH $3,995,000
True penthouse with 2,575 square feet and floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic skyline views. 3 BED / 3 BATH $999,500
264 Hamilton Hills, Independence
New construction model home built by Gonyea/Stonegate sited on a 2.5-acre hilltop setting. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,099,500
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Gonyea to-be-built new-construction concept in the heart of Cottagewood with a sport court. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,299,500
New development in Orono schools. Enjoy a countryside setting within a 17-homesite neighborhood. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,249,500
232 Hamilton Hills, Independence
To-be-built concept by Gonyea/Stonegate. Other options available from $850,000s to $1.4 million. 5 BED / 5 BATH $899,500
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JOHN F. ADAMS
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465 Spring Hill Road, Wayzata
1520 Bohns Point Road, Orono
Spectacular 10-acre northwoods setting on Lake Lydiard with a luxurious main-level master. 4 BED / 6 BATH $3,995,000
Enjoy panoramic views of Crystal Bay and a fully renovated, bright, open floor plan. 6 BED / 9 BATH $5,995,000
28120 Boulder Bridge Drive, Shorewood
28028 Woodside Road, Shorewood
544 Rice Street E., Wayzata
1830 Deer Hill Court N., Medina
Private 2.6-acre Grand View Lodge–like estate with lake views and a 32-foot boat slip. 6 BED / 8 BATH $2,995,000
Landschute-built home with 2+ bedroom suites, elevator, and a rooftop deck with lake views. 2+ BED / 4 BATH $1,895,000
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Idyllic main-level living with incredible entertaining spaces and 180 feet of west-facing lakeshore. 4 BED / 4 BATH $3,250,000
To-be-built concept designed by James McNeal and built by John Kraemer & Sons on 1.23-acre setting. 5 BED / 5 BATH $2,995,000
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GARY AND IAN PETERSEN 9 5 2 - 4 5 1 - 0 2 8 4 | G A RY P E T E R S E N @ C B B U R N E T. C O M
793 Ferndale Road N., Wayzata
214 Barry Avenue S., Wayzata
4731 North Shore Drive, Orono
20325 Manor Road, Deephaven
2817 Westwood Road, Minnetonka Beach
5110 Manor Road, Greenwood
Calming retreat with bespoke updates top to bottom. Peaceful, private setting with luxurious pool and access to Lake Lydiard. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,495,000
Breathtaking sunny, southerly views. Impeccable, nearly new walkout 2-story. Flat yard leads to stunning lakeside entertainment setting. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,495,000
Expansive vistas over Lafayette Bay. Adjacent to Lafayette Club. Create your dream lake home with your builder or ours. $1,275,000
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Peaceful hideaway in the heart of Wayzata. Former Parade Showcase with easy 1-level living and top-quality finishes. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,850,000
Build your dream on the serene shores of Footprint Lake. Curated designs tailored to your needs and wants. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,450,000
Prime location on St. Albans Bay. Major renovation brings modern detail and maximizes lake views. Flat yard, sandy beach. Room for pool. 6 BED / 5 BATH $3,990,000
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GREGG LARSEN
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2663 Woodbridge Road, Minnetonka Beach
4423 North Shore Drive, Orono
20960 Oak Lane, Greenwood
565 Leaf Street, Orono
Connecticut Colonial on Crystal Bay. Sweeping views of lake and Lafayette Club golf course. 5 BED / 5 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
Unique Adirondack-style home on Lake Minnetonka. Prime location close to Excelsior. 4 BED / 3 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
1276 Tealwood Place, Long Lake Rare lakeshore townhome on Long Lake. Sunset views and great entertaining spaces. 3 BED / 4 BATH $589,900
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Beautiful 2-story home sited on 1.5+ acres. 700+ feet of Lake Minnetonka shoreline. 5 BED / 4 BATH $1,799,900
Charming English cottage tucked in the woods. High-end finishes throughout. Orono schools. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,299,900
20458 Knightsbridge Road, Shorewood
Exceptional Amesbury townhome. Private setting close to Excelsior and Lake Minnetonka. 3 BED / 4 BATH $559,900
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ERIK MYHRAN
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18540 County Road 6, Plymouth
3621 Landings Drive, Excelsior
3651 Landings Drive, Excelsior
10860 Purdey Road, Eden Prairie
Amazing property on Mooney Lake. New construction features 6,600 square feet, indoor sport court, long wooded driveway, amazing porch, treetop deck overlooking lake, superb finishes, walkout lower level, 3 fireplaces, and bonus room with bar. Wayzata schools. 5 BED / 6 BATH $1,975,000
New construction in spectacular neighborhood. This stunning rambler features main-level living plus a finished walkout level. Open, casual floor plan boasts huge kitchen, great room with 10-foot ceiling, lovely master suite, 2 fireplaces and natural stone details. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,047,500
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Stunning new home in Minnewashta Landings neighborhood. 4,422 square feet of custom living spaces flooded with sunlight through huge windows. Screen porch with fireplace, gorgeous kitchen/great room, 4-car garage. Minnetonka schools and neighborhood swimming beach. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,139,000
Big and bold architectural home in prestigious Bell Oaks neighborhood. Stunning walls of windows, huge updated kitchen, exquisite main-level master suite, soaring vaulted spaces, huge walkout-level entertaining spaces, and pool with waterfall. A “wow� home. 5 BED / 6 BATH $945,000
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JOHN MCWHITE
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6012 Kellogg Avenue, Edina
5625 Interlachen Circle, Edina
6640 Parkwood Road, Edina
4514 Bruce Avenue, Edina
New construction in Pamela Park neighborhood of east Edina with Traditions by Donnay. Wonderful home features the finest details and amenities with high-end finishes on all 3 levels. Large master suite, main-floor office and 2nd floor laundry. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,299,000
Charming, updated walkout rambler in demand Parkwood Knolls. Remodeled kitchen with center island, main-floor family room, spacious master suite, grand living and dining rooms, gorgeous fenced backyard, and huge deck. A perfect home for entertaining. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,095,000
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Stunning home situated on one of the best lots in Edina. Custom millwork, black walnut floors, leaded glass transoms, imported tile, movie theater, walls of glass, and exercise room. Very private with backyard access to Highland Lake and walking trails. 4 BED / 5 BATH $1,995,000
Absolutely charming home on a private fenced lot. Sun-filled rooms, enameled woodwork, lovely French doors leading to large paver patio, gleaming wood floors, box-beam ceiling, 2nd floor laundry, and new heated concrete driveway — this home has it all. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,295,000
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ERIC AND SHARLA STAFFORD 9 5 2 - 4 7 0 - 2 5 7 5 | I N F O @ S TA F F O R D FA M I LY R E A LT O R S . C O M
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6553 Bartlett Boulevard Mound Enjoy luxurious lakeshore living in this beautifully finished Craftsman home on Lake Minnetonka. Enjoy extensive millwork and the highest quality amenities, including an elevator and a tram to the lake. Offering a maintenance-free lifestyle. 5 BED / 5 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
6925 Lake Harrison Circle Chanhassen Perfectly situated on a private lot surrounded by wetlands and woods, this urban Prairie-style home features sophisticated design and high-quality craftsmanship that combine to create warm, welcoming spaces for everyone to enjoy. Minnetonka schools. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,150,000
10540 Purdey Road Eden Prairie Located in the heart of beautiful Bell Oaks, this custom home has been freshly updated and offers high-end amenities from the chef’s kitchen to the stunning lower level. Sited on a private lot with a large, level lawn set against a backdrop of mature trees. 5 BED / 4 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
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680 Brown Road S. Orono Expansive southeasterly views situated on 7.7 acres with mature specimen trees, beautiful natural grounds, lovely gardens and an addition by James Dayton Design in 2000. 6-car garage motor court, sport court and separate gym, all 25 minutes to downtown Minneapolis. Extensively remodeled walkout level, bathrooms, kitchen, and guest suite above the attached garage. For those days when electric power might be lost, there is a fully automatic Generac generator, installed in 2016. Summer screen porch, the best views in the western suburbs, and a dock for canoeing or flats boat. Low-maintenance all-brick estate that will take your breath away. Insurance carrier states replacement value at $3.6 million. 6 BED / 8 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
Ben Rae
952-495-4000 bgr3@mac.com
1150 Wyndmere Road Orono Constructed in 1968 by a family member of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, this stunning all-brick chateau is surrounded by almost 4 acres in desirable Orono. Only 25 minutes to downtown Minneapolis, across the street from the Spring Hill Golf Club, and minutes to Wayzata and Woodhill country clubs. Nearly 10,000 square feet of living space with solarium, gym and heated 3-car garage. 5 BED / 9 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
Ben Rae
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Brian Kruesel
952-495-4000 bgr3@mac.com 612-227-7909 bgkruesel@cbburnet.com
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BERG LARSEN GROUP
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6425 Indian Hills Road, Edina
1300 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis
5905 Lee Valley Road, Edina
4501 Edina Boulevard, Edina
4807 Sheridan Avenue S., Minneapolis
4615 Moorland Avenue, Edina
Phenomenal contemporary on 1+ acre with 20-by-40-foot in-ground pool and 6-car garage. 5 BED / 6 BATH $1,995,000
Denali-built home set on a gorgeous, level 1.83-acre site with room for tennis or pool. 5 BED / 6 BATH $2,795,000
Exceptional renovation and restoration of landmark Lake Harriet home with elevator and pool. 5 BED / 7 BATH $2,995,000
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Historic landmark grand mansion offers commanding city views, amazing pool and cabana. 10 BED / 11 BATH $5,995,000
Landscaped courtyard setting in premier Country Club. Location, location, location. 5 BED / 4 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST
A most admired Country Club home with octagonal main-level family room and garden terrace. 6 BED / 5 BATH $2,795,000
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5200 France Avenue, #30, Edina Superb brownstone with its own elevator to service 4 living levels and heated 2-car garage. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,890,000
5912 Vernon Avenue, Edina
1819 Logan Avenue S., Minneapolis
Central Park meets Kenwood. One-of-a-kind 4,200-square-foot penthouse 1 block to Lake of the Isles. 3 BED / 3 BATH $2,495,000
270 Mississippi River Boulevard S., St. Paul
Destination home for all seasons. Elevated privacy with resort-like amenities and pool. 6 BED / 7 BATH $1,995,000
Architect-designed residence of exceptional character. Pond, bridge and triple garage. 7 BED / 7 BATH $2,595,000
1721 Morgan Avenue S., Minneapolis
5016 Skyline Drive, Edina
Overlooking Kenwood Park, this home features elevated privacy and light. Dual laundries. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,345,000
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Stunning newer kitchen affords direct access to 1-plus-acre site with bluestone terrace and pool. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,695,000
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6429 Indian Hills Road, Edina
21 Circle W., Edina
5621 Eden Prairie Road, Minnetonka
115 W. 50th Street, Minneapolis
Park-like setting on private channel with 300 feet of shoreline, pool, and tennis court. 5 BED / 9 BATH $3,495,000
Majestic Italian stone villa. Soaring interior volume, owner’s wing, elevator and pool. 5 BED / 9 BATH $2,495,000
Exceptional newer-construction lake home with dock, sport court, theater and custom ski tow. 4 BED / 4 BATH $894,900
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Exceptional Colonial estate with awe-inspiring spaces and richly ornate details. 7 BED / 7 BATH $2,350,000
Exceptional Prairie-style home with walls of glass overlooking wetlands and open spaces. 5 BED / 6 BATH $1,695,000
Exceptional Tangletown Colonial with thoughtfully renovated spaces and meticulous finishes. 3 BED / 2 BATH $550,000
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3630 Zenith Avenue S., Minneapolis One-of-a-kind French architecture with lake views, theater, fitness room and sport court. 6 BED / 6 BATH $3,150,000
4315 E. Lake Harriet Boulevard, Minneapolis
2427 E. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis Signature Spanish Revival with theater, exercise room, elevator and sweeping lake views. 4 BED / 8 BATH $5,400,000
2212 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis
English-inspired Tudor with world-class luxurious renovations and historical architecture. 5 BED / 6 BATH $2,995,000
Remarkable estate with magnificent interior spaces and expansive water views. 7 BED / 9 BATH $3,250,000
2406 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis
3817 Sheridan Avenue S., Minneapolis
Impeccable English Tudor with timeless design in a perfect lake- and park-wrapped location. 5 BED / 5 BATH $2,495,000
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This extraordinary property offers walls of glass, an open floor plan, luxe finishes, and a pool. 3 BED / 4 BATH $2,799,000
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2821 Benton Boulevard, Minneapolis
2609 Burnham Road, Minneapolis
2472 Parkview Drive, Medina
6280 Coteau Trail, Eden Prairie
4905 Yuma Lane N., Plymouth
120 Meadow Lane N., Golden Valley
Great city lakes location. This layout is ideal for everyday living and entertaining. Pool. 4 BED / 5 BATH $999,000
Stunning setting on nearly 20 acres with breathtaking lake views. Full apartment. Pool. 4 BED / 7 BATH $1,295,000
Established neighborhood home with all the amenities. Overlooks pool, yard and golf course. 5 BED / 5 BATH $724,000
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Tucked between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, this home has a wonderful open floor plan. 4 BED / 4 BATH $995,000
Custom-built home in sought-after Enclave development. Timeless charm and simple elegance. 5 BED / 5 BATH $899,000
Unique opportunity to own a multipurpose home in Tyrol Hills. In-law apartment. Huge lot. 4 BED / 6 BATH $649,000
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1301 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis
4511 E. Lake Harriet Parkway, Minneapolis
1303 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis
2200 Sheridan Avenue S., Minneapolis
Tudor exterior complete and framed. Includes generous allowance for elevator and luxury finishes. 4 BED / 4 BATH $2,450,000
Best value in Minneapolis. Extraordinary craftsmanship and timeless elegance. Elevator. 3 BED / 5 BATH $1,749,000
2207 Penn Avenue S., Minneapolis Recently renovated Kenwood charmer. Great spaces for entertaining and everyday living. 3 BED / 3 BATH $995,000
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This Georgian-style home on Lake Harriet has a conservatory, pool and more. Panoramic views. 6 BED / 6 BATH $2,495,000
This historic Kenwood home has had an award-winning restoration and seamless expansion. 6 BED / 5 BATH $1,995,000
1805 W. Lake Street, #204, Minneapolis
Rarely available unit in the Edgewater with views of Lake Calhoun. High-end finishes and modern conveniences. 2 BED / 2 BATH $1,649,000
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2224 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis
1901 Penn Avenue S., Minneapolis
Fran and Barb Davis
Josh Zuehlke | The Wille Group
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine this well-preserved landmark home. 7 BED / 6 BATH $2,000,000 612-925-8408 | fdavis@cbburnet.com
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4337 Chowen Avenue S., Minneapolis
1930 Irving Avenue S., Minneapolis
Josh Zuehlke | The Wille Group
Josh Zuehlke | The Wille Group
Crisp, modern build in the heart of the most walkable section of Linden Hills. Park views. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,075,000
612-735-2345 | jwzuehlke@cbburnet.com
Stately Georgian Colonial on a double lot. Updates and preserved period details throughout. 4 BED / 5 BATH PRICE UPON REQUEST 612-735-2345 | jwzuehlke@cbburnet.com
1640 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis
5007 Dupont Avenue S., Minneapolis
Bob Kessler
Ruth Whitney Bowe
Exceptional architect-designed townhouse with 10-foot ceilings. Overlooking Kenwood Park. 3 BED / 4 BATH $1,295,000 and J ose
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Gracious, light-filled spaces from this stunning Kenwood perch with city and park views. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,200,000
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Stately Lynnhurst residence combines ease of modern living with elegance of early 1900s. 5 BED / 3 BATH $699,000 612-805-7412 | rwbowe@cbburnet.com
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2416 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis
6015 Ridge Road, Shorewood
David Azbill Group
David Azbill Group
Beautifully renovated Mediterranean villa. Stunning detail with exceptional amenities. 4 BED / 6 BATH $2,395,000
612-925-8402 | david@davidazbillgroup.com
Private estate setting on 2 acres with 220+ feet on Silver Lake with amazing amenities. 6 BED / 7 BATH $2,695,000 612-925-8402 | david@davidazbillgroup.com
7317 Auto Club Road, Bloomington
3220 High Point Drive, Chaska
Steve Schmitz
Mary Hageman
Spectacular, private 3.5-acre estate overlooking the Minnesota River. 4 BED / 5 BATH $2,495,000
952-484-6045 | steveschmitz@sellshouses.com
Lake Bavaria 4-acre estate featuring stunning architecture, sandy shoreline and privacy. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,780,000
612-382-0481 | mhageman@cbburnet.com
4965 Yuma Court N., Plymouth
13914 45th Avenue N., Plymouth
Michael McGee
Lisa Piazza
Prairie design with high-end finishes throughout, open floor plan and in-ground pool. 5 BED / 5 BATH $799,000 612-669-1922 | mmcgee@cbburnet.com
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Executive rambler twinhome with exquisitely detailed design and spectacular private views. 2 BED / 3 BATH $534,900 612-751-0976 | lisa.piazza@cbburnet.com
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Skillman Lane, North Oaks
Island Road, North Oaks
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13001 Twilight Road, Onamia
139 Otis Avenue, St. Paul
Architect-designed midcentury modern masterpiece on a hilltop with privacy galore. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,795,000
Private retreat in North Oaks on Pleasant Lake. Generous spaces with lake views. 4 BED / 5 BATH $1,475,000
Historic perfection with 400 feet of frontage on Lake Mille Lacs with separate guesthouse. 4 BED / 3 BATH $1,295,000
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Architectural masterpiece on Pleasant Lake on 2+ acres. Infinity pool with waterfall. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,650,000
All-brick home with patterned hardwood floors, curved staircase and brick-paver driveway. 6 BED / 5 BATH $995,000
Enjoy city living with today’s amenities. Open floor plan, updated kitchen and 3-car garage. 4 BED / 4 BATH $945,000
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Little Carnelian, Stillwater
St. Croix River, Afton
20286 St. Croix Trail N., Scandia
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Lake St. Croix, Solon Springs, Wisconsin
Picturesque setting with Mulfinger-designed home. 350 feet of frontage. 4 BED / 5 BATH $1,350,000
Gated estate surrounded by 6+ wooded acres and lush gardens. Warm and inviting spaces. 3 BED / 4 BATH $779,000
Home in private community of Cedar Cliff includes private marina on river for residents. 4 BED / 4 BATH $1,100,000
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Unique St. Croix River estate with 12+ acres, panoramic views and 185 feet of frontage. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,689,000
Stunning 6-acre retreat. 700 feet of frontage, creek, and waterfall create one-of-a-kind setting. 4 BED / 4 BATH $2,750,000
Very rare 80-acre estate. 2,000 feet of level frontage featuring classic log lodge and cottage. 7 BED / 4 BATH $1,295,000
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1096 Weatherhill Woods Lane SW, Rochester
5283 Trident Lane SW, Rochester
Shawn Buryska
Shawn Buryska
Breathtaking custom-built 2-story home with pool and guesthouse. Private lot on 4 acres. 6 BED / 7 BATH $1,490,000 507-254-7425 | sburyska@cbburnet.com
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7089 North Shore Trail N., Forest Lake
179 Sherman Street, St. Paul
Josh Leonhardt Team
Jane Austin McGrath
94 feet of south-facing frontage on Forest Lake. 4,629 square feet with 3 fireplaces and 8 garage stalls. 5 BED / 4 BATH $1,300,000 651-982-1725 | jaleonhardt@cbburnet.com
Located at Upper Landing in St. Paul, this end-unit condo has direct views of the river and beautiful finishes. 2 BED / 3 BATH $630,000 651-282-9625 | jmcgrath@cbburnet.com
80 Wedgewood Drive, Mahtomedi
215 Board Circle, Mahtomedi
Pat McGrath
Pat McGrath
Former model on cul-de-sac. Best backyard in the neighborhood. Convenient to everything. 4 BED / 4 BATH $725,000 651-653-2449 | pmcgrath@cbburnet.com
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Spectacular new model home with a very fresh cosmopolitan design in Lilly Farm on 2 acres. 5 BED / 6 BATH $1,450,000
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Awesome family home on cul-de-sac. Private fenced yard and 6-car garage. 4 BED / 4 BATH $795,000
651-653-2449 | pmcgrath@cbburnet.com
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7 Apple Orchard Court, Dellwood
7660 N. Field Ridge Road, Grant
12180 Upper Heather Avenue N., Hugo
Cedarleaf Point, Mahtomedi
Dellwood’s pinnacle cul-de-sac. Grand family home with outstanding outdoor entertaining spaces featuring tennis/sport court, tiered decking, pool and room for a 30-yard pass. Heated 7-car garage perfect for the collector. Man cave over the garage. 5 BED / 5 BATH $1,150,000
Country-setting Colonial on 5 acres located just north of White Bear Lake in Dellwood Ridge. South-facing views for miles. High ceilings and classic architecture. Walkout to expansive backyard featuring in-ground pool and carriage house. Mahtomedi schools. 5 BED / 4 BATH $1,095,000
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Classy and comfortable French Country estate near White Bear Lake. Thoughtfully designed and perfectly positioned on 2.5 acres. 350+ feet of west-facing shoreline on fully recreational Pine Tree Lake. Nature abounds. Beautifully detailed inside and out. 4 BED / 5 BATH $2,850,000
New construction. 13 wooded and waterfront lots on scenic Echo Lake. Quiet setting. Convenient to everything. Award-winning schools. Custom design and build with 30-year industry veteran DeWitt Homes. Additional lake lots coming this summer. 4 BED / 4 BATH STARTING AT $1,100,000
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North Oaks Contemporary Homes Amenities, privacy and unique architectural details are all part of the North Oaks experience. Originally a farm owned by railroad baron James J. Hill, the 6,000-acre community was developed with homeowners’ privacy and the natural landscape in mind. The properties extend beyond the usual lot lines to the middle of the roads, making every street private and therefore creating a private city. Former vice president Walter Mondale once called North Oaks home and former 3M CEO George Buckley still does. People driving by might assume that North Oaks is only for the rich and famous. But that is hardly the case as buyers can find houses priced from the mid $300,000s into the millions. Lots typically vary in size between half an acre and five acres. Some of the higher priced properties are lakeshore homes, as there are a number of different lakes within the development. Along with lakes and hundreds of acres of conservation land, North Oaks also has miles of trails for walkers, cyclists, and cross-country skiers. The city has soccer and baseball fields, tennis courts and a tennis program, ice-skating rinks, a private
beach, a preschool, and the private North Oaks Golf Club. Because North Oaks was first developed in the 1950s, the custom-built homes throughout the city range in style from ramblers to Prairie style to elaborate two-story residences to very modern, contemporary designs. The city has also seen its share of teardowns in recent years, particularly around the lakes. Other attractions include the city’s proximity to both downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis, a low crime rate, and lower property taxes than surrounding cities. North Oaks also has a lot of folks who stay in their homes for a long time and watch their children and grandchildren move back to the neighborhood. The North Oaks Legacy event, founded and hosted by Krista Wolter, an agent with Coldwell Banker Burnet, reunited more than 250 longtime residents last September and celebrated their many years of contributions along with the unique advantages of living in North Oaks. All residents that had lived in North Oaks for 25+ years along with their adult family members were invited to attend.
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The city of North Oaks allows for privacy yet has a strong sense of community, offering several social events throughout the year. And the North Oaks Golf Club allows for both golfing and dining as well as being a great place to entertain and a spacious place to hold events. All in all, North Oaks is a great place to call home.
Submitted by Krista Wolter, North Oaks resident & Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Burnet
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the home rather than against them. “We took to neutrals like gallery-white walls and black-framed windows, making the space more about the forms and the furniture,” she says. “We infused sinuous-shaped chairs plus pops of color like citron and turquoise for the pillows, throws, accent tables, and even the books and flowers.” The beauty of this room’s architecture, she notes, is that you can strip away design elements that might come and go yet maintain a solid foundation that allows for elements of surprise or whimsy at any juncture. “This lets the clients’ story keep unfolding with accents that change in and out,” Penfield says. “In and out” has another meaning in this space. Sliding glass panel doors extend the invitation from the interior living room to the exterior dining space, a sprawling patio that boasts views of 100-year-old trees and the lake beyond. This harmonious blend of in and out coupled with luxurious livability make this space a success. As Penfield notes, “We’re mindful of design that lasts, that has roots and permanence but still feels fresh and has a little spunk and personality.” A mantra that will always be in style.
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craftsmanship of WD Flooring in any space (commercial or residential) and any Instagram post (tagged or not). From reclaimed antique hardwoods to Scandinavianinspired oiled and brushed finishes to steely gray hues reminiscent of Alaskan beaches to classic unfinished floors, each provides a stop-in-his-tracks moment to appreciate the important sustainability story underfoot. It’s a story that has been unfolding since Connor’s great grandfather, WD Connor, inherited the company from his own father and transformed it into a beacon of sustainable practice. “WD was a true visionary,” says Peter, the fifth generation company president. “While we can honor him, we could never hope to achieve the amazing influence he had that changed the perspectives and culture of the forest products industry.” You see, WD authored Wisconsin’s Forest Crop Law, which was based on the best practices he set forth for his own company. It became landmark legislation that rewards sustainable forestry and seeks to preserve this natural resource. It is now replicated in nearly every state with a timber industry. Peter has made strides in sustainable production in his own right, holding fast to his family’s Laona, Wisconsin, timberland and sawmill. In the nineties, he and his team went after the mere 20% of the industry not cornered by FLOORING IS A BEACON OF SUSTAINABILITY. the heavy hitters of lumber. BY MERRITT RETHLAKE “We did everything they weren’t willing to do,” he says. “We grew tremendously and became known as those crazy folks from Wisconsin making floors that, at the time, no one else made.” Which meant breaking away from typical strip oak floors and going after walnut and yellow birch. That forward thinking carried Peter through the U.S. recession and into Europe, where he refocused his attention and worked with craftspeople who showed him just how beautiful hardwood flooring could be. “It was truly transformative,” he recalls. He then spent two years in and out of Minneapolis shops learning the intricacies of finish production, never letting go of the company’s sustainable virtues. “We have more standing timber on our land than we did 100 years ago, and we have a zero-waste product,” he explains. Some 90% of the wood comes from a 90-mile radius of the mill, with the remaining 10% coming from Iowa, Indiana and Kentucky. The bark is used for fuel; sawdust helps dry the lumber and feeds wood pellet production; and larger wood chips are converted into packaging materials. And the lumber, of course, tells a story as unique as the building floors it covers. From providing 200,000 feet of clear, certified sustainable maple for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to matching the antique floors of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, WD Flooring projects feature a range of wood as varied as the spaces themselves. The Frank Gehry–designed Weisman Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, Orchestra Hall, and the homes of actors, athletes and musicians all tell a part of the story. “These spaces aren’t meant to be temporary,” Peter explains. “Nothing says longevity like a hardwood floor.”
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Mike and Susan Seeland were craving balance.
That is, “a balance of developing land and dedicating it to nature,” as the thirdgeneration developers put it. And so in 1994, they purchased 194 acres in Medina and Orono. They set out to conserve what could be saved — including a rare tamarack bog and remnant maple-basswood woodlands — then restored the rest into native prairie. Today, 90 of those acres are permanently preserved and serve as the namesake for the Deer Hill Preserve community. “It was already a beautiful piece of land, but we knew it would require conservationminded development,” notes Susan. “Our entire family was committed to ensuring this project was successful.” This was no small feat, and special attention was paid to even the tiniest shrub. To start, the Seelands planted some 4,000 trees. When it came time to pave the roads, they designed them to conserve as much land as possible, relocating 30 oversize oak trees that otherwise would have had to come down. They saved an additional 15 trees through careful management of the grade and margins. Under the guidance of St. Paul’s Landbridge Ecological and internationally recognized expert Neil Diboll of Prairie Nursery in
Westfield, Wisconsin, the Seelands cultivated a landscape that would restore to natural prairie while complementing a livable neighborhood. They didn’t want residents to have to wade through eight-foot-tall grass to borrow a cup of sugar, so they planted short grass varieties like little bluestem and prairie dropseed. They also sowed 14,000+ plugs that this summer will bloom into dozens of flowering plants, including pollinator-friendly liatris, heliopsis and butterfly weed. The duo approached the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to sign on as a partner and to hold the conservation easement. “The most powerful watershed district in the state wanted open spaces to help filter and clean water — and we wanted the same thing,” Susan explains. “So we provided a corridor through the community that ties the wetlands together with an open field for wildlife.” With conservation and restoration well underway, it was time to think about the residents of Deer Hill Preserve. Landscape architect Roland Aberg of Hart Howerton provided the vision and focus for the overall concept, while architect Andrea Swan consults on the design review for each home. “Her dedication has resulted in significant
architectural improvements,” Susan says. “She’s really got a good eye.” Next, they enlisted four top builders: Elevation Homes, John Kraemer & Sons, Swanson Homes, and Wooddale Builders. “They all have slightly different styles, yet all are excellent at what they do,” she adds. “Working with a limited group of builders has helped fulfill our vision.” Taken altogether, Deer Hill Preserve is a sanctuary for humans, flora and fauna. Sandhill cranes and trumpeter swans consider themselves part of the community, which boasts a two-acre park that serves as a communal gathering space. Residents enjoy all the benefits of living within a natural landscape yet remain within minutes of vibrant downtown Wayzata’s dining and shopping. Parents can rest easy knowing their children have access to not only wide open spaces but also one of the best school districts in the state. Neighbors have space to breathe but also to gather. Added paths and trails will allow for easy exploration. The Seelands make cultivating a community look like a walk in the park, quite literally. To learn more about Deer Hill Preserve or to schedule a visit, head to deerhillpreserve.com.
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From the Ground Up Meet the builders of Deer Hill Preserve.
SWANSON HOMES
ELEVATION HOMES A division of Streeter & Associates, Elevation offers its clients trusted guidance while expertly building thoughtful, design-oriented residences that perfectly complement both urban and rural developments. The team helps choose the ideal lot, leads the selections process, and integrates its building expertise to create efficiency, value and a rewarding experience.
This third-generation family-owned company is passionate about designing and crafting distinguished living spaces. Swanson has a reputation as a trustworthy partner in the design/build process. The firm’s inspiring work ethic and dedication to guiding principles bring projects to life and instill a sense of pride in everyone involved.
WOODDALE BUILDERS JOHN KRAEMER & SONS Since 1978, John Kraemer & Sons has built and remodeled some of the finest homes in Minnesota. The company is renowned for its superior quality and customer service. The brand’s collaborative, transparent and ethical approach to business has earned it the title of Builder of the Year a record four times.
Since 1975, Wooddale has been a leading builder of Minnesota’s custom luxury homes. The company partners with leading architects and has a dedicated team of construction experts. Working in close collaboration with clients, the firm designs and builds custom dream homes.
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Valley Polo Club. As part of the pairing, the clubs will host jointly sponsored tournaments twice a year, with a winter event at Mandarina and a summer one in Aspen, Colorado. Other planned features include the family-friendly Canalan Beach Club; an estuary with walking paths; and a farm complete with gardens, orchards and a greenhouse. Harvested produce serves as the basis for a truly farm-to-table culinary experience. And programming for kids revolves around jungle adventures, replete with treehouses, hanging bridges and a butterfly sanctuary. One&Only Mandarina is located just an hour north of the Puerto Vallarta International Airport. Villas are now available, ranging in price from $4.5 million to $12 million. Residents enjoy an extensive menu of first-class services, such as property management; charging privileges at all hotel amenities; in-residence private dining; spa services; personal training sessions; travel arrangements; pre-stocked groceries; laundry and dry cleaning; medical services; and boat moorage.
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more iconic than cruising on Lake Minnetonka is admiring the homes that line its shores. Tucked into an angled lot, this one hints that there’s more to see than what meets the lake’s-eye view. Its copper edging reflects golden hues in the sunlight and contours the elegant, elongated layout with its series of hip roofs that echoes the water and the shoreline. This vision came to architect Charles Stinson as he stood on the lot, shortly after Jaleh and Patrick Peyton purchased the property. The couple interviewed a handful of architects, but Stinson was the only one who actually set foot onsite, solidifying their decision to partner with him. “I’ll stand on a lot until I realize where the house wants to be, what orientation it has — you have to feel it,” the architect explains. The uniquely shaped lot angles inward before doglegging out to the lake. It was originally owned by the beer-pioneering Gluek family, and the Peytons are only the fourth owners since the property’s 1800s beginnings. The site, however, came with its fair share of challenges. Trees
and vegetation had encroached over the years, so the first order of business was restoring the natural beauty. The team removed 200 dead or damaged trees then redefined the lot by planting 300 new ones. After four years of landscaping and building, the couple was able to call the house home in June 2017. The exterior immediately evokes warm, modern appeal, with natural materials like stone and copper welcoming guests inside. A light well rises above the roof and pours natural radiance into the residence, while black-stained Loewen windows offset the aesthetic. The house, boathouse and detached garage boast similar geometric elements and proportions, making up one cohesive composition. The Peytons primarily reside in Miami but call Minnesota home during the summer and the holidays. Six children and eight grandchildren keep the couple busy and were major motivators for the layout of their lake home. To achieve their family retreat goals, Stinson designed an environment with special twists and turns. “Every inch of the playroom is part of the adventure, from the carpet to the
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were replaced with large continuous walls and gallery-like spaces. Similarly, numerous walls were designed to be artful in and of themselves, featuring beautiful paint and plaster treatments that can stand alone or enhance art. “We collect artwork from young, mid-career and well-established artists from around the world,” explains Jaleh. “The power is in the story that each artist brings.” A narrative that has transferred beautifully to their home, its vision brought to life by builder Streeter & Associates. “This house is put together like a Lego set; the specifications and execution are tight as a drum, and only a builder like Streeter could do it,” Patrick remarks. Streeter Senior Project Manager Kevin Hilgers has always wanted to build a Stinson home, and with this project, he finally got the chance. “The structural work was intense, but the partnership we had with the homeowners and with Stinson’s team made for a flawless finish,” he notes. “This home was always meant for this site. It’s rewarding to give someone something as special as family time.”
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walls,” laughs Jaleh. It includes a bunkroom that sleeps 14, cozy play nooks inside and out, extensive outdoor space, and a playhouse inspired by Stinson’s children’s book, Stripey Island, that features slides, ropes, climbing walls and even a 500-ball jumping pit. Adults most certainly enjoy the residence as well, from the catering kitchen and 28-seat dining room to the private guest rooms to the deck spanning the length of the house (complete with infinity pool — one of few on Lake Minnetonka). The Peytons ultimately eliminated a third level to keep the space open yet intimate and efficient. “Charles took great efforts to design the interior and exterior spaces we anticipated for both the current and future generational needs of our family,” Patrick explains. Throughout the bustling abode, Stinson thoughtfully emphasized the homeowners’ art collection to create moments of pause. “We didn’t want to lose the warmth of our home, but we wanted to maintain a quiet elegance where our art enriches our daily lives,” notes Patrick. Early designs of stone walls
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As a kid, I followed my dad through pheasant fields and spent hours mesmerized watching dogs work the fields. In fact, I became so dog-obsessed that I asked my parents for a breed book. I memorized every breed in that book (true story) and became fascinated with different dogs, what they were bred to do and their history. Today, watching the natural birding instinct of a pointer or retriever turn on like a light bulb still brings me joy. These dogs love their job, and it shows. Labradors and German shorthaired pointers seem to dominate hunting fields, but there are many lesser-known gun dogs that make not only great hunting companions but also quality canine family members.
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his American breed originated in the Wateree River area of South Carolina. Originally bred to chase ducks and turkeys, the Boykin spaniel is a petite retriever that now excels in upland hunting and water retrieves. It is known as the dog that won’t rock the boat in duck blinds, but its high heat tolerance and eagerness to please make it great in many hunting situations. Plus, the teddy-bear appearance is pretty hard to resist.
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aabeautiful creature and a dedicated ahunter wrapped into one, the large Munsterlander is originally from the MĂźnster region of Germany and was brought to North America in the seventies as an upland bird-dog. Although it is considered a versatile hunting dog, this canine is a pointer first as that has been engrained in its 100+ years of German breeding. The large Munsterlander is known to be quite smart with limitless drive, but it can be slow to mature and therefore requires some extra patience when it comes to training.
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he bird-dog with a mustache, the Pudelpointer has as much character in personality as it does in appearance. It was originally bred in Germany, combining the best traits of the German hunting poodle and the English pointer. Perfecting the breed took a painstaking 30 years, but the result is a highly intelligent, high-energy hunting pal. A Pudelpointer is ideal for a very active family that spends plenty of time outdoors as this dog needs to burn off its endless energy.
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Fo rag i n g Fisherman MARSH SKEELE EXPLORES THE WILDERNESS OF ALASKA THROUGH ITS FOOD. BY JULIA HEFFELFINGER
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Marsh Skeele knows that if you’re looking for the best camping
spots in Southeast Alaska, you’ll have to share with the bears. “It’s where you find the salmon streams and bushes of wild berries,” he explains. The fisherman and co-owner of Sitka Salmon Shares, a community-supported fishery that delivers impeccable seafood directly to consumers across the country, learned early on that the cleanest fish, the ripest berries and the most distinctive herbs are found deep in the Alaskan wild. “Food here has its own terroir,” he says. “It’s a beautiful, untamed place, and you can taste it in every ingredient.” Every summer throughout Skeele’s childhood, his family traveled from their western Washington home to Port Alexander, Alaska. Situated on the southern tip of Baranof Island, this 80-person town is accessible only by floatplane or a choppy 12-hour boat ride. They would pack up the necessities and move into their rustic cabin constructed from reclaimed cedar from an old fish cannery. It was deep in the bush, with no electricity or refrigeration to speak of. Whatever food you needed, you had to find in the woods or on the water. Skeele’s dad, a commercial fisherman, would spend all day on the boat, while his mom smoked and canned salmon. “It was an amazing way to spend summers as a kid,” he says. “My sister and I would pick wild blueberries for that morning’s pancakes or forage for edible seaweed. It taught me that the best food comes from the best environments.” By age 12, he was helping out on his dad’s 40-foot boat, pulling in salmon and halibut off the coast of Port Alexander. He had no intention of going into the family business and only picked up deck hand gigs while going to school to make some extra money. But in 2011, an opportunity arose to buy his own boat. “I knew that being a captain was very different from being a crewman,” Skeele explains. “The risk, the reward, the glory and the failures all fall on the captain.” Atlantic salmon is one of the last great abundant wild foods. Catching it and maintaining its freshness is hard work: Every fish needs to be bled, gutted and chilled on ice immediately. Skeele quickly realized that the quality of his very perishable product was completely lost once it made its way through the many steps of the traditional seafood chain. What was the incentive for a fisherman to take care of his bounty if it was only going to bounce from supplier to wholesaler then sit in a display case? Skeele’s pal Nic Mink, a professor of sustainable food systems, proposed a solution: He began selling the fish directly to his friends and colleagues at Knox College in Illinois. What began as a campus-wide buying club soon spread across the Midwest to Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Madison. By 2012, the duo had launched Sitka Salmon Shares. Now fans from coast to coast can get pristine seafood — every piece traceable back to its fisherman and the day it was caught — straight from this community of sustainable, small-boat fisheries. And starting this summer, customers can buy seafood, attend a fish fry and more at the company’s first brick-and-mortar outpost in the renovated Garver Feed Mill in Madison. Skeele now lives in Sitka, Alaska, year-round. When he’s not on the water or at the docks overseeing hundreds of pounds of incoming fish, he can be found deep in the woods, foraging for mushrooms, beach greens or rose hips. But this isn’t the kind of roughing it you might be picturing; you’ll never find him without his trusty cast-iron skillet, a pair of sturdy tongs and a cooler full of good wine. He feels at peace surrounded by the towering pines (and in a Forest Service cabin — remember, bears). “This is my kind of camping: spending all day by the fire, sipping on a glass of pét-nat and cooking an elaborate meal with whatever I can find,” he says. Whether that’s a fillet of freshly caught salmon smoked over a cedar plank or meaty spot prawns bathed in miso butter, it’s bound to be one of the best meals in Alaska. When the air smells of smoldering alder and Skeele’s fingers are stained with blueberry juices, he swears he can taste the wildness of the last frontier in each bite.
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B rown S uga r– S m o ke d So c keye with S pruce Ti p s Makes 4 servings One of Marsh Skeele’s favorite summer meals is a whole side of salmon cooked low and slow over a fire until it is tender and has absorbed a smoky flavor. For garnish, he tops it with spruce tips: edible buds with a citrusy, woodsy taste that are fresher and more vibrant than any herb he can buy in rural Alaska. (If you can’t find them, dill is a fine substitute.) Serve at room temperature on a bed of tangled greens and drizzled with a mustardy vinaigrette or hot off the plank with a cooling sauce of Greek yogurt, lemon juice, dill and capers. ¼ cup ¼ cup 1
brown sugar kosher salt 1-pound skin-on sockeye salmon fillet spruce tips for garnish (optional)
1. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and salt. Rub mixture over salmon and let sit 30 minutes. Rinse and pat dry. 2. Meanwhile, soak a cedar plank and 1 cup alder or cherry wood chips in water at least 30 minutes and drain. If using a grill, place wood chips in a smoker box or wrap in foil, poking a few holes in packet. 3. Heat grill to 200°F by piling a small amount of charcoal off to one side or turning a gas burner to low. When hot, set wood chip packet directly on coals or burner and let it begin to smoke, about 5 minutes. If using a wood-burning fire, adjust grate to sit 12 inches above heat. Let wood burn down to a lowburning coal base then scatter over Wine Pairing wood chips. Skeele recommends 4. Set salmon on cedar plank and pairing this hot-smoked place on grate over indirect heat. salmon with a light, Cover (if using a grill) and cook juicy red that can take until salmon is just cooked through a bit of a chill. Try the and its flesh flakes easily, about Brick House 2017 Gamay 30 minutes on a grill or 45 minutes over Noir from Oregon, a a wood-burning fire. Transfer salmon to drinkable red with hints a work surface and let rest 10 minutes. of tart cherries and a bit Serve warm or at room temperature, of minerality. garnished with spruce tips.
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S p ot Prawns with Mis o Bu tt er Makes 4 servings Spot prawns have a rich, sweet tail meat much like a cold-water lobster. While they make for a next-level shrimp cocktail, they’re incredibly decadent as a main course when tossed in a savory miso butter spiked with sake. This recipe calls for the stovetop, but you can easily make it on a grill or over a campfire. In this case, Skeele recommends making the miso butter in advance then adding it to your skillet to warm with the prawns. Serve with plenty of crusty bread or grilled naan for sopping up all of the unctuous sauce. 2 cups sake or dry white wine ¼ cup rice vinegar ¼ cup mirin (Japanese rice wine) 1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced ¼ inch thick 1 medium shallot, peeled and halved through the root 4 tsp. white miso paste 5 Tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and softened kosher salt pepper 2 pounds spot prawns or large wild shrimp, peeled and deveined julienned scallions for garnish lime wedges and crusty bread for serving
1. In a small saucepan, combine sake, rice vinegar, mirin, ginger and shallot. Bring to a boil over high heat then reduce to low and simmer until thickened and reduced to roughly ½ cup, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and discard ginger and shallot. Whisk in miso paste and 4 Tbsp. butter until butter is melted and sauce is smooth. Wine Pairing Season with salt and pepper. Keep warm over very low heat. Skeele’s ideal pairing for these full-flavored prawns 2. In a medium skillet, melt remaining is a fruity, slightly savory 1 Tbsp. butter. Add prawns and cook orange wine. The added over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, skin contact (which gives until beginning to curl, about 1 minute. the wine its signature Add sauce to skillet and cook over color) provides balanced moderate heat, stirring occasionally, tannins. Cantina Marilina until prawns are just cooked through, Sikelè Grecanico from 1 to 2 minutes more. Sicily tastes like a dry cider, 3. Divide prawns and their sauce between with a ginger-like spiciness. 4 shallow bowls. Garnish with scallions. Serve with lime wedges and crusty bread for mopping up the sauce.
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Wi l d Blu eb er ry Cl a f o u t i s Makes 4 to 6 servings Clafoutis is a custardy, pancake-like dessert that can be made with any fruit you have on hand. Because wild blueberries are abundant in Alaska in the summer, this version is Skeele’s go-to. If you’re camping, pack up the heavy cream in a large glass jar and pop it in your cooler. Pour a cup into the batter then use the jar to shake up any remaining cream for a whipped topping. To make this recipe over a campfire, use a cast-iron skillet or pot with a heavy lid to replicate an oven. Nestle the pan into the low-burning coals so the clafoutis cooks evenly. large eggs 3 sugar ½ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled 2 Tbsp. whiskey 1 tsp. heavy cream, plus more whipped for serving 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ cup wild blueberries 2 cups
1. Preheat oven to 325°F. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, butter, whiskey and heavy cream until smooth. Add flour and mix until just combined. 2. Pour batter into a 10-inch cast-iron skillet or large pie dish and scatter blueberries on top. Bake until clafoutis is puffed, golden brown and just set in the middle, 35 to 40 minutes. Serve immediately with whipped cream on the side.
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sparked in his youth during a family vacation to Montana’s Glacier National Park, where he was awestruck taking in the surrounding mountainscape. Since then, his adrenaline addiction has only grown: He’s scaled and skied Everest, trekked 300 miles across Tibet’s Chang Tang Plateau, and ascended Meru Peak via the treacherous Shark’s Fin — earning a Guinness World Record alongside his climbing comrades. The 45-year-old’s career in adventure photography happened almost by accident, when he nabbed a friend’s camera to snap a photo of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park; his pal submitted that shot to an outdoor clothing company, which opted to purchase the image. Emboldened, Chin bought his own camera and hasn’t looked back, his work since featured in such powerhouse publications as National Geographic and The New York Times. It’s only fitting that all these years later, El Capitan continues to captivate Chin, who earlier this year won an Academy Award for his documentary Free Solo (co-directed with his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), a vertigo-inducing account of climber Alex Honnold’s successful free solo ascent of the iconic granite monolith. –Kate Nelson
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March 28, 2015 During a down day from skiing, professional skier Kalen Thorien explores the Athabasca Glacier and ice caves in the Canadian Rockies.
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In 1960s post–Cold War America, a high-tech, sci-fi future seemed right around the corner.
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A life filled with Jetsons-style robots, touchscreens and flying cars felt not only possible, but inevitable. At the same time, urban areas across the country had started buckling under the rapid growth of the population. Rather than flee to the suburbs alongside his white, middle-class peers, Minnesotan scientist and eccentric Athelstan Spilhaus had a bold idea: What if all this new technology could solve modern urban dilemmas like crime, pollution and overcrowding? And what if, instead of trying to incorporate these developments into existing cities, we built an entirely new one — one away from any existing mess, outfitted with the most ambitious advancements and enclosed under a geodesic dome to protect it from the elements? The idea progressed to the point where a site was chosen: the unincorporated 204-citizen community of Swatara — about as close to nowhere as you can get. Spilhaus and his fellow scientists saw the sprawling farmlands as fertile ground in which to plant their wildest dreams. Some 250,000 people were projected to move to this new city, along with major companies like 3M and Honeywell. Plus the project had buy-in from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the state government and a high-profile advisory board of scholarly masterminds like Buckminster Fuller. There was only one problem: No one told the people of Swatara about the big plans. And once the residents found out, their resistance played a big part in bringing the $4-billion project to a screeching halt. The story of the North’s failed futuristic city, officially dubbed the Minnesota Experimental City, is so bizarre it’s a wonder that more of the state’s residents don’t talk about it. But of the project’s many missteps, its largest was its failure to reach outside the bubble of elite scientists and social engineers who cooked up the idea and communicate with the public. And so MXC lived and died mostly in secret, with millions of state dollars quietly funneled into a project that amounted to little more than a dozen file boxes of sketches, meeting notes and lost dreams.
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Dean of the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, Spilhaus was a restless, radical intellect. This inventor, geophysicist, meteorologist and oceanographer channeled many of his ideas for the future into the nationally syndicated comic strip Our New Age. Some of his fascinations proved prescient. His first-ever comic, published in 1958, warned that an increase in carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuels could trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, declaring “We live in a greenhouse!” Other strips envisioned a future filled with self-driving electric cars — an idea that has only recently been embraced by the mainstream thanks to entrepreneur Elon Musk — and personal computers that could connect users to a global network of information. Spilhaus created the comic strip with the intent of teaching scientific ideas to hungry young minds who were more apt to read the funnies than a textbook. But by the early sixties, the influence of Our New Age on the leading minds of his generation had been firmly established. When he met John F. Kennedy in 1962, the president told him, “The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip in the Boston Globe.” In fact, Spilhaus had already contributed one seemingly far-out invention to the world: a system of covered, second-floor skyways to protect city dwellers from extreme weather, today found across Minneapolis and St. Paul. So when he began floating the idea of an experimental city in Our New Age, politicians and engineers were intrigued. What might sound like a far-fetched fever dream became a clarion call. Cities were expanding too rapidly to remain healthy, Spilhaus argued, and an experimental city could create a testing ground for new systems of modular building, mass transportation and waste management. A dome would protect residents from the elements and help mitigate the effects of climate change. “It is not only to be a viable city in itself,” he told Minnesota Public Radio in 1972, “but to be a laboratory for the testing of both technological and social innovations that once proven can be introduced into the older cities.”
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As his idea snowballed, Spilhaus launched an informal speaking tour to sell the concept to other leaders in the scientific community. He had the early support of Otto Silha, president and publisher of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and together they secured enough funding to officially launch the project in 1966. Between the two of them, the duo had enough political and social capital to assemble a national advisory committee and begin bending the ears of Minnesota decision makers. They spent the next several years in smokefilled conference rooms drafting up plans and debating the technical details: Would MXC be a utopia or an ever-fluctuating system of trials and errors? What if the buildings could be disassembled and moved around like modular furniture? And would it have a dome or what? Oddly enough, discussion of the location for such a major project came late in the game, and it wasn’t until 1972 that the committee began making site visits and narrowing in on economically depressed Aitkin County. By this point, Spilhaus had long departed from the project, frustrated by the bureaucracy and bored by the slow pace of development. The committee had evolved into the state-backed Minnesota Experimental City Authority, with members appointed by Governor Wendell Anderson. It was given a budget ($140,000) and tasked with proposing a site to the state legislature by the spring of 1973. And so the process of whittling down potential locales finally began.
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The authority knew it wanted the experimental city to be at least 100 miles away from a major metro area and surrounded by lots of open green space to stave off the overcrowding that plagued other cities. Swatara fit the bill, with an added bonus: Not only was the town enveloped by large swaths of undeveloped land, a state park and a national forest, but the population was dwindling and struggling to stay employed. Surely they would welcome the chance for something as exciting as MXC. “Because of the economic situation in Aitkin County, the thought was that residents would be receptive to development, whether or not that happened to be under a domed city,” says Chad Freidrichs, director of the 2017 documentary The Experimental City. “The thinking was that they would be welcoming to people who were bringing economic development to a place that was in dire straits at the time.” Turns out that thinking was wrong. “Some things you just can’t predict,” he continues. “How can you predict that the people of Swatara weren’t going to want a futuristic city dropped on top of them?” Visit Swatara today, and you might think you’ve stumbled onto a vacant film set. A weathered general store is frozen in time along the block-long main drag, one ancient gas pump left unattended on the front sidewalk and paint peeling away to reveal rotting wood underneath. Down the street, another building is so dilapidated it looks like a strong gust of wind might blow it over like a house of cards.
The only remaining sign of Swatara’s early 20th century prosperity is an old railroad platform that’s been turned into a roadside sign greeting passersby. The only visitors passing through are the ATV riders and snowmobilers who roar from town to town along the Soo Line Recreation Trail, occasionally stopping off for a beer or a sandwich at a local watering hole. Even that is a rare enough occurrence that a stop at the Corner Club is met with raised eyebrows from the lone bartender and patron who sit inside. These days, few locals have any desire to discuss the crazy plan for the domed city that almost displaced Swatara. But back in the winter of 1972–1973, it was the talk of the town. As soon as the newspapers reported that Aitkin County had been chosen as one of two possible sites for MXC (the other being a small town in Douglas County), residents began writing panicked letters to the governor, all of which remain neatly stacked in manila folders at the Minnesota Historical Society like a time capsule. Some saw the experimental city as a chance for a brighter future: “We need jobs badly,” wrote Gladys Garner. “Our forests have been cut down many times. Our fish are few — far apart and small. Our hunting is gone. ... We’ve lived here since 1934. My husband and three boys have all had to go away to earn our living.” Others saw it as a devastating blow to an already hurting town: “My father-in-law and I stand to lose our homes, our land and our small place
of business,” wrote Roger Sundberg. “That doesn’t give a man much to live for, does it?” Ben and Carol O’Brien, meanwhile, wrote countless impassioned letters tagged with the phrase “Save Our Northland” and peppered with dramatic pleas: “Give us liberty or you will give us death (our hopes, dreams and homes).” Unsatisfied with the lack of response, they took matters into their own hands and staged a protest. To show just how upset they were, the O’Briens walked the 170 miles from Swatara to the state capitol in subzero temperatures to hand deliver a signed petition to Governor Anderson. The Minnesota Experimental City Authority officially chose Swatara as the proposed site on February 12, 1973, but the entire project died soon thereafter due to public backlash, the changing political climate and pushback from the Pollution Control Agency. The legislature, which had turned from Republican to Democratic control in the beginning of the year, completely backed off MXC, writing it out of the following year’s budget. In a scramble to dissect the now very public dilemma, newspapers didn’t know whether to blame the people of Swatara, the committee, the government or all of the above. Swatara residents did their best to return to their quiet country lives, though many still carry grudges about the doomed domed city to this day. As George Trepanier told the Star Tribune in a follow-up story in 1987, ‘‘You can’t stop progress. But they did.’’
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Obscura THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO TAKE A TRAIN ACROSS THE UNITED STATES — BUT I DID IT ANYWAY. B Y C A I T Y W E AV E R
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Tell your fellow Americans that you plan to cross
the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror that they, through some fatal social miscalculation, have become acquainted with a person who would plan to cross the United States by train. Depending how you slice it — time or money — there are either 61 or 960 immediate reasons not to travel by Amtrak trains from New York City to Los Angeles. Those are the extra hours and dollars, respectively, that you might reasonably expect to forfeit if you forgo a six-hour $129 nonstop flight and opt instead for an Amtrak sleeper car. Covering the interjacent 2,448.8 miles can easily consume some 67 hours for a mind-boggling $1,089. Of course, you might remind your quote-unquote fellows, any form of modern engine-based transport, even Amtrak, is preposterously fast compared with the method that Homo sapiens employed to move ourselves and our tchotchkes for most of our species’ 300,000-year history, which is walking. Crossing the stretch of land where roughly half the Donner party starved, froze or, in the case of the group’s two Miwok guides, were shot to death for food — an overland journey that took the party about five months to complete in 1847 — could be done in under two hours by a Honda Accord today (assuming normal traffic), while a plane from Springfield, Illinois, their starting point, to Sacramento, California, would zoom over their whole route in half a day, including layover. Because of this ability to effectively teleport between locations, 21st century Americans have become flippant about transcontinental voyaging. To truly appreciate the size of the landmass (the third largest country in the world by land area) and the variety of its terrain (rainforests, deserts, prairies, Margaritaville, etc.), you have to see it from the ground. Amtrak clings to the hope that someday people will view its service not as something that sucks and that they hate, but as something that is actually nice and that they don’t hate. There’s a whole separate Amtrak website dedicated to this (amtrakvacations.com), where Amtrak does things like describe Los Angeles to people who have never heard of it: “The ‘City of Angels’ is one of the premier attractions in sunny Southern California.” But the other selling point of a crosscountry train trip is a chance to look behind the American scrim, to learn where the nation makes and stores the hidden parts that run it, to find new places you wish you had been born, to spy on backyards and high-school football fields whose possible existence had never occurred to you. Or me. Why not me? My boyfriend and I were planning a short vacation out West anyway; I could just leave a few days before him and get there after he arrived. As I quickly learned, there are no passenger rail routes that cross the entire United States in a single trip, nor are there likely to be any soon. Even proponents of the high-speed railway systems much lauded in Asia and Europe (and tentatively proposed in Congress’s Green New
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Deal resolutions) generally give the competitive edge to planes for travel across distances greater than 600 miles. At present, reaching California by rail from New York requires at least two trains, one of which will depart from Chicago or New Orleans, all of which, like most lines operated by Amtrak, have names so sumptuously picturesque (Coast Starlight, Maple Leaf, Sunset Limited) they make the storybook Polar Express sound as sterile as “Amtrak” by comparison. To book tickets, a person must first complete a battery of tests measuring her patience, hand-eye coordination and aptitude for deductive mathematical reasoning, in the guise of Amtrak’s impossible-to-use online trip planner. (While the trip planner cannot identify the train station nearest to an address or even a city, it can tell you the name of the city you have already typed into its search bar, provided there is an Amtrak train station there.) The fastest way to complete this slow journey is to take the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago’s Union Station then board the Southwest Chief to Los Angeles, one of sunny Southern California’s much-hyped premier attractions.
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ontrary to multiple acquaintances’ declarations that I would encounter “some real weirdos” on the train, the first person I met on board my first sleeper car after boarding the train in Penn Station was a man in a sparkly cardigan and leather pants who breezily identified himself as “a prophet,” which is perhaps the world’s second oldest profession. And forgive me if I find nothing weird about being gainfully employed under a supervisor with the kind of multinational name recognition God has. As he doubtless expected, the prophet and I were in opposite Viewliner Roomettes: private compartments Amtrak describes as “designed for one or two passengers,” although a roomette is both narrower and shorter than a standard porta potty. What Amtrak has managed to cram into this minuscule space is impressive: a fold-down sink, two cushioned benches that convert to a bed, a second premade bed that lowers from the ceiling, a tiny foldout table with an inset of alternating colored squares for checkers or chess, a coat hook, a luggage cubby, a large picture window, and the largest variety of not-quite-matching shades of dark blue upholstery fabrics ever assembled. There is even a small metal toilet with a pucecolored lid, which invites a brainteaser: Is it more luxurious to have a private toilet inches away from your sleeping area or a shared toilet elsewhere? The car’s friendly attendant advised me that the recommended way to enter the upper berth was to step first atop the toilet seat (a little over a foot off the ground), then, using a wallmounted handle for balance, climb onto the narrow built-in ledge above the toilet, rotate my body 90 degrees and, fueled by a cocktail of optimism and derring-do, launch myself into the bed suspended in midair. To prevent occupants from rolling off their 28-inch-wide
mattresses (the same width as a standard casket) and falling several feet to the floor, stowed beneath the mattress of every upper bunk is a kind of net of seat belts that hooks with grim determination into the ceiling. Once on the bed, I subjected my body to a series of Cirque du Soleil–inspired experiments to confirm that this safety web would indeed hold my weight, were I to roll unconsciously into it at 2 a.m. I tested the strength of the straps with one leg. I rolled from the wall into the net, flopping my limbs. I placed each hand on a segment of net and pushed against it with the full force of my upper body, something that I had never done in my sleep but that now seemed possible or even probable. It seemed secure. It also seemed representative of Amtrak’s casual, makeshift approach to passengers — a slightly refreshing, slightly unnerving attitude to encounter after a lifetime of air travel. The freedom to move about in a train evokes an illicit, almost danger-courting autonomy. (The nonprofit National Safety Council reports that a person in the United States is several times more likely to die of “sharp objects” than a plane or train crash, though the events that preceded this year’s emergency Boeing groundings make such statistics cold comfort.) The instructions given by conductors and attendants were not so much formulaic as they were desperately obvious — a black comic litany of bare-minimum survival tips. “Just for your safety, please do not walk or play on these tracks,” went one announcement. Another asked parents to ensure young children did not “wander around the train alone.” Although there was no whiff of a TSA screening in place (it would presumably be possible for someone to arrive one minute before departure carrying a duffel bag of uranium and swords, and hop right on, although hopefully no one will), pantomimes of security distributed responsibility among everyone aboard. “WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER... LITERALLY” read the text on a safety brochure promoting Amtrak’s If You See Something, Say Something campaign. Even on short plane trips, every passenger is offered the kindergartner’s communion of juice and cookies, as if the majority of adults are incapable of going 90 minutes without such provisions. On trains, passengers are treated as individuals even more powerful than adults: independent teenagers who just want to smoke. Amtrak knows you want to smoke. Amtrak knows you love to smoke. But while you’re living under Amtrak’s roof, you have to follow the rules, of which there is only one: Don’t smoke inside. “Albany is going to be a smoke break,” a young male voice declared over the intercom as the train hurtled northward. “Just a reminder, ladies and gentlemen,” a voice like that of a female jazz radio DJ warned on a westbound train, “this is a completely nonsmoking train.” She added: “Your first official stop for a smoke break is Kansas City, Missouri.” In winter, the 3:40 Lake Shore Limited experiences just 90 minutes of daylight before
darkness descends for the majority of its journey west to Chicago. The first leg of the trip follows the Hudson River, revealing glimpses of hidden islands and idyllic ruins, like the crumbling remains of a fanciful 20th century castle built by an arms dealer in need of an out-of-the-way place to stash his stores of live ammunition, some of which eventually exploded, creating the crumbling remains. At sunset, when all that was left of the day was a tangelo slash along the horizon, that same color flashed up from partly melted ice craters that caught the light as the train chugged past. Suddenly, the air outside the train became crows — thousands of crows, rushing in from all angles and alighting on the blue-white frozen river, as if deposited there by an unseen hand. Sleep the first night came easily and, as it was interrupted several times, frequently. After performing the traditional nighttime rituals of climbing atop the toilet and carefully catapulting into bed, I was rewarded with the gentle rocking of a hammock experiencing a constant minor earthquake tremor. The atmosphere on board was library-like; even the periodic train whistle sounded very far away, as if in someone else’s dream.
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gear discussed leukemia treatment with a swish black grandmother. Another man, while gathering up armfuls of research books from a table, bid farewell to a farmer and suggested that he might run into him on the same train next year. I was seated at dinner with an Amish couple traveling to Arizona for a construction job, and by the time our Amtrak Signature Steaks with optional béarnaise sauce arrived (the food is on a par with the fourth best airplane meal you could ever imagine), we were deep in a conversation about one of my favorite topics: myself. I offered a tip I’d learned about cleaning up glitter using dryer sheets, and they laughed as they tried to envision a situation in which this information could ever be useful. “‘Who told you that?’” the husband asked himself, anticipating companions’ questions. “‘Some girl that writes in The New York Times!’” “They’d never believe us,” mused his wife, who had ordered cheesecake for dinner. At another meal, my table mates were a Missouri-based retired physician and her husband, a retired special-ed teacher, plus a retired architect from Arizona who was traveling alone. In the middle of a conversation about how they met their spouses, the architect suddenly seemed preoccupied with his iPhone. “I read one where it said,” he muttered into his chest, “‘Keep your photo of your wife when you met her.’” He lifted the phone and showed the table his lock screen: a black-andwhite photo of a beautiful young woman in 1960s dress. I barely managed not to cry into my Land & Sea entrée (Amtrak Signature Steak with optional béarnaise sauce, plus additional crab, shrimp and scallop cake). Back in my warm little room, there was something I couldn’t put my finger on that made it subtly nicer than my Lake Shore Limited accommodations, and that was the inroom toilet, because this roomette did not have one. I had been given a stationary pointing tour of the compartment by the Chief’s sleepingcar attendant — a middle-aged woman from a small town in Mexico, who, like every Amtrak attendant with whom I interacted over the course of three days, hummed along with the unflustered friendliness of a benevolent spirit continuing to go about its business in a hotel decades after the property has been converted into luxury condos. Her soothing voice made everything she said sound like the hurried recitation of a familiar recipe. Her assessment of me — “You are on vacation, you probably want to close the curtains and sleep and sleep, wake up and eat and then go and take another nap, it’s OK, that’s why you are on vacation” — was delivered all in one breath.
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ansas shares a border with Colorado. I never could have imagined that I would one day say this, and I know many people will be disconcerted by the statement. They will
wonder if, this whole time, they have been reading an avant-garde work of science fiction or perhaps a Mad Lib. “Is magical realism always this scary?” they will ask themselves. Some will claim I am lying. Many will assume I am wrong, demented or a clumsy typist. To all of whom I respond: The truth of our nation’s internal demarcations is stranger than fiction — stranger than even the kind of brilliant avant-garde science fiction I am most likely capable of producing yet choose not to. But the unvarnished fact is Colorado has to start somewhere, and for whatever reason, that’s inside Kansas. I woke in Colorado to a weather phenomenon called the pogonip: freezing fog that condensed on tree limbs and sagebrush until they looked dusted with powdered sugar. The terrain of the Colorado tablelands is so flat that it seemed possible to detect the exact location where the pogonip ended and blue skies began, the margins of the changing landscape revealing themselves as definitively as gutters between panels of a newspaper comic. A childlike compulsion to identify distant cows rippled through the observation car as we hurried along. So fast did we fly past baby deer that the “Aw!”s caught in our throats. Whichever way you face, you are privy to an all-day show, although there is a nagging sensation that by focusing in one direction, you are missing something spectacular unfolding in another. Sometimes you are. Sometimes other people will even tell you you are, like when a grizzled stranger sat down next to me, close enough to be way too close, jerked his head behind us, growled, “That’s Pikes Peak” and walked away. Unknown to me, on the north side of the train, the Rockies had just begun to loom up out of the prairie. Azure and golden orange were the colors of the afternoon. Action-movie posters are dominated by this color combination, famous for its vibrancy, and indeed, a horizon filled with just these hues seemed to draw the Sightseer Lounge into a kind of trance. For a long while there was nothing but sky and earth to observe — I saw actual tumbleweeds somersault by — yet everyone, myself included, remained riveted to the windows. It was possible in the Sightseer Lounge to watch weather roll in from a great distance, even from one side of the car to the other. As we ascended hills covered in pinyon and juniper, flakes began to fall, and soon we were in a winter forest. But just as quickly as we had entered the snowscape, we were back in dusty New Mexican grasslands, rolling through a hailstorm of white birds. Sunset pushed the denizens of the Sightseer Lounge to the brink of insanity, as all but the Amish frantically tried to capture the flamecolored sky on our cellphone cameras. A companionable mother I met earlier in the day, accompanying her own parents on a casino trip to Nevada, dashed from another car to make
sure I was facing out of the best side of the lounge to photograph the heavens. When the sun dipped below the horizon, the sky turned the color of wet slate, then dark denim blue with a pale apricot smear that we chased west for several miles. Scale on a rail trip is what’s most arresting. We live so much of our lives close-up — scrolling through phones, watching our type appear on computer screens, scrutinizing papers, preparing meals, cleaning our homes room by room. Very few elements of our day-to-day tasks remain out of arm’s reach. An extended train ride affords a chance not just to see a horizon but also to soak it up. To luxuriate in the far-off for uninterrupted hours. To exist, briefly, in the uncharted sections of the cellphone-coverage map. And it feels as if you’re getting away with something — seeing more than you deserve. The best part of the trip wasn’t spying on the backyards of houses; it was out here, in the open. The bright hues of the nation’s choropleth population-density maps fade to white in these areas, yet many of the most beautiful habitable parts of the United States (no offense to Boston) are contained within those colorless expanses. Amtrak takes advantage of this circumstance. It is fortunate that its routes were laid during a period of industrious optimism, when everyone assumed the West would soon be made as unbearable as the East. If they had known it would remain beautiful, it would have been difficult to justify the financial investment. Lying in my berth, I felt as happy as an egg in an incubator with no plans to hatch. My mood was so upbeat that when I spotted a vitamin on the carpet, I optimistically assumed it was the one I’d been keeping in my pocket for weeks but forgetting to take, and I popped it in my mouth, reminding myself to look up the writing stamped on it later. It turned out to be a supplement for adults 50 and over. I had become train-lulled. When I awoke on the third day, we were about an hour behind schedule. It had happened, our attendant explained, when assistance for a passenger with disabilities was slow to arrive at an overnight stop. “We can’t rush them!” she chided (referring, presumably, to the passenger rather than the assistance), though the delay appeared to have dampened no moods. It meant that the sun rose over the San Bernardino Mountains at breakfast. As we approached our final destination, the scenery deteriorated, the red rock vistas replaced by heaps of wooden pallets stacked in strip-mall parking lots. When we pulled into the last stop on the line, the train was almost empty. I had surveyed thousands of miles of panoramic splendor, and I couldn’t believe I had come all that way just to get to Los Angeles. This article is published in collaboration with The New York Times, where it first appeared.
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Paralympic Swimmer Mallory Weggemann is on the comeback. And it’s a mindset and a path this two-time Paralympian has blazed more than once. In January of 2008, just a couple months shy of her 19th birthday, she was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of an epidural injection to treat her back pain, a lingering aftereffect from shingles. She was coming of age — her time of ultimate possibility — unexpectedly as a paraplegic. “When I was injured, I realized seldomly are you presented with what can be,” she explains. “But as devastating as it was, I needed to decide if that split second that changed everything would be my defining moment — or just another moment that continued me along my story.” By April 2008, she was out of the hospital and living with her parents. Her sister read about Paralympic Trials being held at the University of Minnesota. Weggemann had been the captain of her swim team at Eagan High School, but she hadn’t planned on a college or professional career. Still, she went to watch with her sister’s urging. “I’ll always remember that first scent of chlorine,” she says. “Everything had changed for me, but not everything had changed. Chlorine smells like chlorine, no matter where you are in the world or what you’re going through.” Two days later, she was in the pool. “I learned to adapt faster in the pool than on land,” she notes. “Swimming was as second nature as walking used to be. In so many ways, swimming was how I healed.” In her first races, 8- and 9-year-olds were beating her. But not even two years after her paralysis, she had broken three world records. And in 2011, ESPN awarded her an ESPY for best female athlete with a disability. In London, her
first Paralympics, she won gold and bronze. She has held 34 American records and 15 world records. In her 50-meter freestyle in London, Weggemann came from behind to win gold. “It is never too late to fight for what you want, and you don’t give up halfway through the race,” she explains. “You fight for every single inch. It’s been seven years, but I’ll never forget a single moment of that race. It took 31.13 seconds to win, but a journey to get me there.” Hot off her storybook beginning while on a media tour, she was showering in a hotel when the bench holding her up collapsed. Her left arm sustained permanent nerve damage. She thought about retiring. But her then-fiancé kept the dream of the Rio Paralympics alive. After intense training, Weggemann swam all seven individual events, her highest placing out of medal contention. Although she admits there was immense heartbreak, “no medal could have made that moment any better,” she says. “It’s one of the most successful moments in my career, knowing everything it took to get there.” After Rio, she was pulled out for two years. She prioritized walking down the aisle with leg braces, building her career as a motivational speaker, and rehabbing her arm following two major surgeries. Still, the Tokyo games called. In April, Weggemann ranked first in the world in one of her events — a huge starting point for her comeback for Tokyo 2020. “There has not been a single day I haven’t dreamt of being on the Paralympic podium again,” she explains. “It feels like unfinished business. I want to hear the national anthem and see the American flag raised. Just as we are resilient, our dreams are resilient.”
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Maybe it’s his Finnish/Iron Range upbringing that infused attorney Clayton Halunen with a hefty dose of sisu. Or perhaps it’s due to a childhood in which he witnessed both parents experience workplace discrimination and the painful repercussions that came with it. Whatever the roots, he was determined to make a difference, and he chose the law as his course for change. As founder and managing partner of Halunen Law for the past 21 years, Halunen has solidified his place in the legal landscape and achieved national recognition for his work. From whistleblowers experiencing retaliation to executives unknowingly short-changed in their severance to employees facing illegal workplace practices, he is committed to representing people who find themselves at a turning point and in need of a fierce legal advocate. Some 15 years ago, Halunen secured his first verdict north of $1 million in a workers’ compensation retaliation and discrimination case. “That was a milestone in my career,” he says. “It felt so satisfying to get justice for my client.” His most famous case? Perhaps representing former NFL player Chris Kluwe. The athlete sued the Minnesota Vikings after his contract with the team wasn’t renewed, allegedly because of his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community’s right to marry. The case was resolved, with the settlement donated to LGBTQ nonprofits. “We represent individuals in cases of wrongful termination with a specialty in whistleblowing, sexual harassment, executive severance matters, consumer class actions, and violations of the False Claims Act — cases that involve whistleblowers exposing fraud committed against the U.S. government,” Halunen explains. “When people come to us, they are often angry, confused, fearful and dealing with a host of other emotions. We take that burden off their shoulders and take care of it so that they can move on with their life. We are fighters, and at the end of the day, we almost always succeed. In fact, we successfully resolve cases more than 95% of the time.” With that kind of record, it’s not surprising that Halunen’s ambition is to be one of the top whistleblower firms in the nation. And with his vision, leadership and thoughtfully selected team of passionate, strategic, skilled professionals, it’s all but a foregone conclusion he will do just that.
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Physician Skin Services Annika Crosby, MD, and Bill Joy, RN, of Physician Skin Services recognize that each client’s needs are unique, so the duo offers plenty of options to help them achieve their goal of looking and feeling their best. In fact, the practitioners were recently in Florence, Italy — not for a vacation, but rather to train with a surgeon in the art and science of fat transfer, a procedure that utilizes a client’s own cells as dermal fillers in the face, hands and elsewhere. “We have a certain niche — we are not plastic surgeons and we are not dermatologists,” Crosby explains. “We are here to help people feel good about themselves, to lift their spirits and their moods. If they look better, they feel better, which in turn elevates others’ moods around them in a reflective way.” Joy, the clinic’s founder, has a background as a registered nurse and respiratory therapist. He has been a pioneer in the region with laser treatments and injections, having practiced aesthetic medicine for 25+ years. Crosby, who now owns the clinic, has spent 25+ years as a practicing physician and is still an internal medicine doctor to this day. The two have been working together for nearly 15 years. Their love for helping people feel better about themselves coupled with a voracious appetite for learning puts them squarely at “the forefront of aesthetic medical procedures,” Crosby explains. “We strive to be the best.” After all, how you look reflects out onto people. “If you get Botox and get rid of those forehead lines that make you look crabby, you look brighter, happier, and more refreshed and relaxed,” she gives as an example. “There is a kind of give and take about your own self-confidence and how others see you. It doesn’t take a lot to make a big difference in how people look and feel about themselves. A lot of self-affirming therapy happens here.” While Physician Skin Services provides mainstays like Botox and dermal fillers, it also excels in cutting-edge laser therapy. For example, it was the first clinic in the nation to get the Genius, an ingenious machine that does micro needling with radiofrequency, stimulating collagen growth and tightening with minimal downtime. Crosby often pairs it with the LaseMD, which tightens skin, minimizes pores and corrects pigment — also with minimal downtime. “We have a general philosophy of not overdoing it,” she explains. “We don’t believe in making people look unnatural or overly done. Our goal is to help people look and feel their best with our state-of-the-art services.”
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Carl Bang grew up in Norway. Went to college in Canada. Practiced his MBA and CFA trade as far as France and Qatar. Now, he joins the team at Plymouth’s WorkOptional as Chief Investment Officer, lending his global view and considerable passion for individual goal setting to help clients best manage their money. “It’s a complex field,” he explains. “There are so many different factors that can impact an investment: social, political, economic, tax, monetary policy. Returns and risks are dynamic, but a good investment is about knowledge and diligence to get to the heart of the matter. It’s about looking at complexity, seeing patterns and making decisions that make sense in a complicated world.” Plus, Bang notes, change is happening at an accelerated pace — but his wide-ranging experience comes in handy there, too. “Having a global perspective often gives insight into other opportunities,” he says, such as investing in markets that other local investors aren’t aware of or don’t fully understand or even pursuing alternative investments, such as rare cars or private markets, that help reduce the overall risk of an investment strategy. Bang has long assisted large companies with managing wealth, but now he brings that experience to bear with individual clients. What remains constant is his belief in planning around financial goals. “You have to be consistent with a family’s changing needs and ensure investments mirror those needs as they change,” he explains. “Underlying that is my strong belief in risk management; it makes the difference between mediocre and excellent performance.” “I’ve always defined my success in terms of how I develop talent and the success of the people working for me,” Bang continues. “I use the same framework in terms of how I bring value to clients: If they are successful, I am successful. I look forward to contributing to the strong team effort at WorkOptional and bringing value to our clients in reaching their life and financial goals.” PHOTOGRAPHY BY NADIA ZHENG
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My M i s a d ve n t u r e A few weeks ago, I nearly lost my life somewhere over
Greenland. I was returning from a trip to Iceland. The theme of the excursion was adventure, with activities like ATVing, ice caving, glacier hiking, whale watching and visiting the Blue Lagoon (page 62). An hour into my flight from Reykjavík to Minneapolis, I collapsed and lost consciousness. My situation became a medical crisis. Sigríður Herdís Ásgeirsdóttira, an Icelandair flight attendant, jumped into action and saved my life. The captain encouraged an emergency landing in Greenland and then Canada, but I insisted on returning home (not a wise decision). Upon arrival, I went straight to the hospital and was told I had suffered a STEMI: a heart attack known as the widow maker. I immediately underwent surgery, and my doctor said I was fortunate to survive. As you might imagine, an encounter with death at the age of 56 stirs up a host of emotions, including shock, anxiety, depression and even anger. While in the hospital, I suddenly had more time than I knew what to do with, which gave me a chance to think about my mortality. One of my friends had just passed away, and while reading his memorial, it occurred to me that most obituaries are hashed together with dates, affiliations and other nonessential information. They do a poor job of describing someone’s life. I concluded that a final public tribute boils down to answers to a few key questions: What was their character? What were they trying to accomplish? And how did it work out? Lately, I have been reflecting on how I will live out my remaining time. I have a new perspective and am thankful for getting another chance at life. The truth about second chances is that they don’t always happen and luck will only take you so far. After my episode, I feel exceedingly humbled, am taking better care, and find myself being more deliberate and intentional about everything. I have located Sigríður back in Iceland. She will be in town on a layover in a few weeks. I will be hosting a dinner for her, the Icelandair crew and family to express my appreciation and gratitude. Cheers,
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