Trail 40-24-Ridge to Huron-Champlain PKwy-Fortune to P10.
The fresh air, exercise and scenery were great. It felt like skiing with a fever: the temperature itself was very warm, but there were cold currents wafting from the hills.
If I had been skating, I would have enjoyed the actual skiing more. The granular snow of yesterday was hard to find, and in its place was a lot more ice than expected. Grip was poor except when it was deadly slow. There were no classic tracks on any sort until near Western and all traces of a former classic track was crunched down by snowmobiles. It was icy enough on trail 40 that Garry offered to pick me up at P10 to save me having to ski back down to P12 (I would have walked a good Km of it to save my knee).

Ridge is getting dirty, bare, rocky and was generally not inspiring for classic. Water is starting to create tunnels through and beneath the trails. The creeks are all wonderfully noisy! There were about 5 carry-overs in total and a few more I should have removed my skis for. That said, there is still a lot of snow and ice left, it's just not high calibre snow. The lower parkways have lost a lot of snow since yesterday. At some points the snow is down to single ski width (great for balance drills!).

I'm ready for torrents of rain and high temperatures to arrive over the next couple of days, so we can move on, get the bikes out on the parkways and switch seasons. This was likely the last ski of the year for me. It's wonderful that it lasted this long!