So we’ve had lots of nice powder snow, deep but lovely. Then the rain came. This is what I found. Tracked trails were now hardened and bumpy even if it was a nice snowshoe track. Where water ran down or across the trail there was…water…some bare areas, some slushy areas and water. Lots of crossings have no ice…so there is water. Untracked snow now has a crust, some areas thicker than others but enough that the fun snowshoe slide downhill isn’t fun as the snowshoe is now stuck under the crust…not the hard stuff that hurts the chins on impact...but crust nonetheless. Sometimes the crust is hard enough to walk on and sometimes not but no warning is given when you are moving along nicely and then drop into a hole, after which each step has to be plucked out because now you can’t just plow through the nice powder. Sigh…But it still was a lovely day.