Another lovely, mild winter day! No noticeable melt in the past few days and the fresh snow remains, well, fresh. Classic skied to Wolf trail. Excellent tracks all along, barely a few icy spots and hard wax worked perfectly (but started wearing off at the end: binder strongly advised).
Did a few incursions off trail and it is remarkably good anywhere, on ponds or in the forest: 5cm of fresh snow on top of a hard crust are just about the dream conditions. Go out while it is cold! (just beware open water - and presumably thin ice - on some ponds).
Also remarkable is how clean the snow is for this time of year. Even usual messy spots like #1 approaching Shilly Shally are fairly clean.