[ Booker C. Bense ]

If you're using your own effort to get up the hills and you're
not skiing on a prepared track, that's backcountry skiing. Covers
everything from a short jaunt in your back yard to skiing down
Everest.

I more or less agree, but what do you call xc skiing on groomed tracks
in the backcountry? Around here we have vast networks of (different
states of) groomed tracks streching far into the woods and the
mountains. There are marked routes deep in the mountains run regularly
with snowmobiles but without set tracks -- not snowmobile routes, we
don't have those outside of the far North as recreational snowmobiling
is banned, they are run with snowmobiles to pack the snow and mark the
route for skiers. Does it turn from deep backcountry in summer to not
backcountry in winter because a groomed track was laid down?


Martin
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"An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
-Paul Graham, On Lisp