Open stacks are fine, butt a wood shed (Wood Building! ) is mandatory for your dead serious wood heating in snow country.
Ours ( sorry, no pics ) was built with scraps from this house construction. It's a pole shed, with "flitch" boards, mill boards that are milled vertically with the contour of the outside of the tree, spaced 6" apart on 3 sides for circulation. Simple and cheap. In snow country, outside stacks get to be a PITA.
I like the "slippers and robe" thing. Besides, the woodshed gives you a place to snort your piles.
I also built a "storm shed" onto the house with ~ .5 cord for those days with heavy snow ( "Emma Storm" ); enough for many days snowed in, sick, or too lazy to head out to the woodshed. Open the door, pull the sticks, load the stoves.
P.S. I am not a Pook". :msp_w00t: