Will Steger's rustic refrigerator gets packed with 'perfect ice'

Wil ELY teger has kept his perishables cool the old fashioned way: in a root cellar half-filled with ice harvested from the pristine lake in northern Minnesota.

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The Ice Ball, as Ste decades ls it, drew dozens of helpers to this land at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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