A very happy trip for me. I'm able to skate ski now after a difficult 2 years and was absolutely ecstatic to have climbed the Fortune Parkway twice this week on skate skis. (which also happens to be just twice in the the last 2 years!!) The past weekend also featured Burma but today the conditions were not quite that good. I really appreciate being uninjured and would like to stay that way if possible!

It was quite soft going up the Parkway at 2:15. I felt a bit like a Monty Python character lifting my skis so high to escape the deep ruts of soft, heavy, slow snow. Great workout though! Ridge Road was a different story, because the slow fresh powder and ungroomed snow made for very slow conditions, sticky conditions. It was still possible - just barely - to ski right up to the Champlain Lookout on a narrow strip of snow. It was all too easy to picture cyclists congregating there soon. By the time we turned around the snow was starting to refreeze and the descent down the Fortune Parkway was slightly beyond my personal limit for speed. YAAAAAH! You had to pretty much "go for it" because the snow was getting too crusty for anything else.

If it's groomed tomorrow it will be fantastic, especially early in the day (when I can't be there!). I hope Demsis honours their contract and keep grooming right up until the 15th. It's so rare to have this much snow into April.