Today I decided my legs needed to get used to climbing so I skated from P10 up the Fortune and Champlain parkways. A couple of centimeters of powdery snow fell in the park last night. There had been no fresh grooming, but a Demsis service snowmobile came by slowly enough that the drag did a good job of grooming the skate lane- no ruts for a change! (Thank you Demsis). My poles hit pavement about half the time, but there were no significant bare patches. Glide was excellent, and control good. I turned around at Huron Lookout since the coverage was starting to get a bit thin on the exposed ridge, but I think with a bit of care it would have been easy to continue to the Champlain Lookout. By the time I descended temperatures were starting to poke above the freezing point, so classic waxing will be problematic this afternoon. Overall conditions are well worth the drive from Ottawa.