T360 Prime Time Apres Ski Edit, Under Construct @ 8:31 P.M.
It Is Possible This Is All You Would Ever Need
To Know About Tremblant Today...
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If all this pic. above did was leave you with the impression that
Tremblant was “Great” today, that would actually be a totally
appropriate summary, however...
There are other things you will want to know.
For example, did the Base Level high temps @ +5 C affect Mountain Conditions?
The answer is yes, but not in a profound way because there was just
enough “Cool” in the air to keep a primary feel of “Winter” underfoot.
The Summit temps never got over +1 C, and even that was only for minutes.
Most of the day was at -1 C, and that felt more like -6 C in the face of the
wind, but amazingly, it was enough to keep most of the Mountains trail
surfaces dry and fast.
Go back up to the pic above and look at the frosty snow in the trees.
That is the big tell-tale on the feel of winter. Any sustained level of
warmth from either solar or wind sources would have erased that
tree-snow in minutes, but on Summit and Nord/North Sectors,
that heat never happened.
Here below is a Summit Snow sample from the centre of the trail between
the TGV Quad and the Lowell Thomas Quad. When you look at the
right ski, you can see how it has displaced snow as it was moved
laterally, also towards the right. Those small shapes are what we
call surface layer “Shear” qualities. Other evidence of snow dryness
is the powdery look of the snow on the skis. If it was wet, it would
show signs of water beads, but there are none at all. This was all
at 4:15 P.M. so well after the very brief spike into the “pluses” by
1 degree. This snow was all “winter”, there is not even a shred of
dampness or water beading anywhere at the Summit, or on Versant
Nord, the North Side. For sure, below the Summit on Sud/South and
Soleil, there was mild heat energy, very mild, so a wee bit of softening,
but there was not even so much as a smidgeon of mush anywhere that
we saw.
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This next pic. illustrates the all-day dryness in Summit and Nord/North trail surfaces.
Look at the snow dust in the wake of the Skiers descents. That light, dry snow-dust
will not occur in damp, wet or thawed snow because moist snow shreds chunky bits,
not dust.
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Contrast the above to the below. This below is on McCulloch, and what you see here
is a more sun exposed, slightly heat softened, surface that is getting “Shredded” with
way more pronounced chunky bits. All the large chunky bits you see are the shredded
results of passing traffic. They are all soft, break up on contact and you can not feel
them underfoot as you traverse these McCulloch surfaces.
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More in the morning, but they’s a whole bunch ‘o wild cards in the forecast
so we just have to wait and see...
---------------------- 6:39 A.M. Orig. Post ---------------------
102/102 (*) Open Trails
Mother Nature Delivers An Unexpected Surprise!
It Snowed Like CRAZY For About 6 Hours During Yesterdays Open Hours...
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The Official Total for yesterdays snowfall is at 7cm’s, however,
we can tell you for a fact that there are new 20cm’s drift lines
on Versant Nord/North Side.
When you consider that the original weather forecast for yesterday
morning included a period of freezing rain, it was a huge relief to see
the start of the serious snowfall remain all snow, all day, and not just
a little bit either. It snowed very hard and very long and we were
surprised this morning to see the official total so low for this event.
Anyone who swept the snow off their car to drive home from the
Versant Nord/North Side Base Level Parking could tell you there
was more than 7cm’s on the cars by noon, and it was still snowing
hard all 4 hours later at Last run.
Ski Areas are sometimes accused of exaggerating snowfall totals,
but in this case we think the overall contribution is greater than
the indicated amount. That may have a lot to do with “Drifting”
over and around the Mountains topographical shapes and contours
that a static snow collection point does not reflect.
The bottom line(a) on this point is that if you look at the “Proof Of
Snow” pic’s posted 2.23.21(as crude and un-scientific as they all are),
you can see the depth of snow over the length of the skis above
the binding toe-piece is now definitely greater and although the
angle of the shot is different, the 2.22.21 pic. is within .5 of a metre
of the 2.27.21 pic. above.
The bottom line(b) on this point is that even using the Official snowfall
metrics, Tremblant has received 10% of the seasons so-far total snow
in less than 5 days and that’s an impressive jump for any week in any season.
Anyone who had concerns about weekend lift-line wait times yesterday
had no worries in the reality as there were no lift-line wait times beyond
a minute or two that we saw anywhere. Whether or not that is the case
today remains to be seen. We theorized yesterday’s traffic might be
affected by the Freezing Rain forecast icons but we have no idea what
exactly kept more from coming out. Will today be different?
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On A Very Un-Scientific,
Purely Observationally,
Estimated Basis...
The typical Sunday attendance pattern is something like whatever
numbers are out by 11:15 A.M. or so, can see 30 to 40 % gone
by around 2:00 P.M.. There are exceptions though, so when you
throw in some “Pandemic” factors, but counter them with easy
weather factors, it’s once again very difficult to be conclusive,
so we continue to encourage patience on the part of all Ski/Board
fans attending when using lifts no matter what you find.
Weather Notes:
Great for today, however evidently, things are going to change
during the overnight period as there is a significant rain component
in the mix for the first time in a long time.
The current prediction is that the rainy portions will fade to end
somewhere between 9 and 11 A.M. tomorrow and that there
should be a switch to snowfall as the temps drop back into
sub-zero C ranges by about noon. If the snowfall happens
at an appreciable rate as the temps drop, the effects of the
rainy bits will be offset to variable degrees. It’s too early to
tell on any of this and there is some possibility that at cooler
Mountain Elevations it could be either a snow or mixed event,
or the rainy bits may be shorter or less intense than at the forecast
Base levels. If it’s what Pilots call a “Low Ceiling”, i.e., if the cloud
is as low over the Summit as it often is, that could mean a lot less
precipitation in any form as things that fall from cloud tend to
fall under the cloud, not so much in the cloud.
In any event, the most active portion is during the night, and
the most active time-span is only 3 hours, so we have all that
to be thankful for in the sense that it’s happening while we’re
all sleeping, but... you may need your Descente Poncho for a
while tomorrow morning?
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Conditions Notes:
For Today:
A One Day, Mother Nature Sale Of “Excellent”.
(with maybe a hint of “Spring” @ +3C & sunny.)
In The Groomed:
The combination of new snow and the overnight grooming
should produce some maybe even “Best Of” seasonal conditions
across all Green/Blue/Black rated trails that have freshly
compacted surfaces. We are looking for rocket-fast, super-smooth
as a default forecast foundation. The fact that the temps were
relatively warm at only a few degrees under Zero C meant that the
internal humidity of the new snow is fairly high, so it should pack
very well and with a nice cool overnight low, we are hoping the
chilled out surfaces will hold the speed and smoothness all day.
In the Sous Bois, Glades, Hors Piste and Un-Groomed:
WOW....
take another look at the top pic., as well as the one below,
and you should be able to understand why we think you’ll
find that at “Excellent”.
We would like to point out that within this scene, and adjacent
to this scene in the Open Sous Bois, there are fresh powder drift
lines in excess of 20/30 cm’s, right now, today.
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102/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 28, 2021, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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