Just start small and easy and work your way up. Try to actually work on skill and not gain false confidence.
Winter hiking is weird because the trail is packed down and it's way easier and don't need snowshoes just spikes and boots, but a few feet away is deep snow that you'll sink into without and maybe even with snowshoes. So if you get lost you're fucked. And if you carry snow shoes you'll probably never use them but they could save your life.
There's also two schools of thought
>carry a stove and sleeping bag and tent and a bunch of heavy shit>carry only clothes and don't stop moving until you are out of the woods I prefer the latter.
>>28548712nd this. Yaktrax are for mom's walking around the block. Get the legit spikes and either hillsound or kahtoola. Don't buy the cheap Amazon ones they will fall apart.
A hiking pole can be helpful too as an ice pick.
