City of Lakes Loppet

Say this about the organizers of the City of Lakes Loppet: You can’t keep ’em down.

Last year, freakishly warm weather forced them to curtail the main event of the festival, the cross-country ski races between Theodore Wirth Park and Uptown. Instead, racers skied a few laps around Wirth Park, where snow machines created what was the only reliable cross-country trail for much of that muddy, balmy winter.