Winter weather welcomed by skiers, fishermen

Can you have too much of a good thing?

Apparently if the good thing is lake-effect snow, which on Saturday blanketed the Empire area to the point that it buried the cross-country trail groomer for the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail.

“It was a blizzard around Empire, and it stayed there all day,” reports Kerry Kelly, chair of the Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes organization. “The people who were out there skiing were glad to see us coming.”