We've had about a week of snow/rain/snow/rain, etc. There wasn't a huge accumulation at my house (6700 ft elevation) but the higher elevations got about 10-12 feet. Today was marginally nicer, although still snowing a little, so we decided to go to the XC center with our touring skis. We took those skis because we had no idea what the conditions would be like and we knew we could handle anything with those skis, even if it was slower going than the skaters or track skis.

I'm glad we did because we hit everything from ice to hard pack to powder to mush as we changed elevation. But it was 2 good hours of exercise and still a lot of fun.