This winter was fantastic. We’re guessing that the snow was on the ground, continually, for around 10 weeks. This allowed for XC just about any day you wanted. We were able to maintain the same track set thru the fields. Every time there was new snow, we were usually able to ski over the old trail. As we did, we kept compressing the snow in the tracks. As the snow was melting, the denser snow in the tracks is the last to go.