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Originally Posted by maddmaxx

Its winter.....the dirt is cement....and unlike you we haven't had snow yet just ice.

My experience is that this is the order of trail hardness around here:

1. Cement - absolutely no give.

2. Asphalt (tarmac?) - enough ridges, depressions, etc., to have some "give." I (and my hip) can very much tell the difference between cement and asphalt.

3. Our dirt trails are horsepaths which follow along the cement paths, and are filled with depressions, ridges, etc., which is great exercise for your ankle muscles as they adjust to those depressions and ridges, and there is a lot of "give."

4. Along many of our trails is grass or wild low growth. I almost always walk on that, instead of the cement.

5. Somewhere in there is fresh snow/older snow, which can vary a lot. I have wide open fields I can walk in to avoid the ice ruts caused by snowplows, etc., if needed.

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