i have been up to La Ronge in the winter and it's real road survival country.Northern Minnesota is the suburbs compared to what i saw up there.a friend who worked up there and i was with told stories of people coming back to the out lying villages after a night in town and not wearing anything but a car jacket who went off in the ditch and set fire to the spare tire to keep warm.
maybe a BS story but there is not much up that way.