would you rather: break trail or follow a track

follow someone's skin track for sure.

Unless there is a ski lift nearby, I would definitely go for that first.

follow someone's skin track for sure.

Unless there is a ski lift nearby, I would definitely go for that first.

A man after my own heart. Glad to see you survived the land of the rising sun.

Only on TAY would you find people arguing about the beauty of your uptrack.

Not sure I've seen any such argument on this thread; I'm just seeing varied thoughts in reply to the OP, some of which quite naturally reference personal preferences about uptrack styles.

Edited to add:
I took the question to be "would you feel more comfortable going into an area that you know has other people or would you rather explore on your own?" but some of the answers seem to be leaning towards setting new skin tracks next to old ones which seems to be a waste of space and effort unless there is a problem with the existing skin track (blown out kick turn, icing, poor line choice in the first place, etc).

so the question really is, would you rather enjoy the beauty and solitude of being the only one out there, even if it means breaking trail through fresh snow, or would you rather follow someone else's track and save time and energy, but not have the same quality wilderness feel?

so the question really is, would you rather enjoy the beauty and solitude of being the only one out there, even if it means breaking trail through fresh snow, or would you rather follow someone else's track and save time and energy, but not have the same quality wilderness feel?

I much prefer the solitude that is why I mostly ski midweek and mostly alone (and don't post many trip reports LOL).

Would you rather... break trail through deep snow and be the only one out there, or  follow someone else's track and have the work done for you but see some other people/tracks on your slope?

Taking turns breaking trail with your touring partner is not a valid answer.

I'd rather follow.

I don't really mind bumping into a few other powderhounds when the snow is deep.

If its bluebird with a foot of blower pow and i'm out in the alpine, yeah... thats when I'd rather have freshies on the way up and down.