Backcountry or cross country skiing to get away from crowds and chairlift area exposure during the coronavirus pandemic is shown here in WSJ. What helps is warming huts, parking, an mapped cut runs through the trees or areas so one need not forge one's own path. This article does not go into backcountry experience in the manner of cross country skiing. That provides a similar experience at this time of the pandemic.
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