Surprisingly good skate skiing today! Starting at P3, the parkway was freshly groomed. The cordroy is a bit iced up in places, but otherwise it was hard packed and fast! Presumably this afternoon after enough traffic the iced up cordroy will become better. Skied onto trail 5 from there, which wasn't recommended but actually better than the parkway! It wasn't freshly groomed, so it was just hard packed, great for skate skiing! Tracks on #5 are invisible in places though.

I connected to the parkway on #26, which doesn't seem to have been groomed since before the snowfall Friday night. So it has about 5 cm loose snow on top but has been skied in. Skier made tracks were there, but nothing set.

Tracks in general looked in good shape, a bit shallow in places. In some places they were nice and solid, in others already iced up as to be expected.

Weather is actually great, with almost no wind! It was -22 when I arrived, parking wasn't busy at all, neither was it when I left at 10:30.

Skiing was definitely better than I had assumed after the rain, it's a great day to get out, this afternoon should be very nice! The forecast for the week looks scary, so ski on snow while it's still there!