Here’s a quick post to catch up on some news:

Monday’s Duluth News Tribune has a nice little article on the Duluth Curling Club, and includes a handy glossary of curling terminology and some history of curling in Duluth. The story would have been a little more appropriate a month or so earlier, but better late than never.

A mixed doubles bonspiel was held at the Duluth Curling Club this weekend. Mixed doubles is a new format for curling, in which teams of one male and one female compete. Each team plays six rocks per end, but the most unusual feature of mixed doubles is that the first rocks of each end aren’t thrown, but placed by hand prior to any throwing. One placed stone is a high center guard, and the other is on the button. A complete set of rules is found on the bonspiel’s website, and the World Curling Federation produced a YouTube video demonstration of the mixed doubles format which can be viewed by clicking this link. Unfortunately work and driveway clearing prevented me from getting down to the club to watch this event, so if anyone has pictures or fist hand accounts they’d like to share, email me!

Finally: Snow, and plenty of it! Here’s a photo showing the aftermath of last year’s epic storm. Why don’t the drifts in my driveway look like this? Thanks to Scott for the picture.