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It Snowed At Tremblant Today.
It may have rained over various regional ground levels, but up
on the Mountain...
(please see our “Weather Notes” in the original post below)
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Only Snow.
The skiing was definitely “Spring”, a bit of a workout, and somewhat
prone to heavy wet snow thickness, but... compared to what many
thought it could/would have been with rainy bits, it was way, way
better, fun, and even easy on steeper runs, where the friction
counterbalanced gravity.
In our opinion today was a pivotal moment for the quality of the
remaining season, not only the length of the season, but the scope
of the quality. The reason for that is that by having new snowfall
combined with a trending drop in the temps to back below Zero C,
over Mountain elevations tonight, there is a compensating offset to the
heat/thaw of the past days that we think is a “Just In Time” critical point.
We only have a month to go, so there has never been any doubt
about enough snow to make it through, but where today may
make a substantial difference is in how much coverage, and at
what quality that coverage could be. Today points the indicators
towards both more and better by generating a small, but functionally
important cool arrest of early spring heat.
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We have written extensively in the past about the durability
potential in any spring skiing season being facilitated by
overnight sub-zero C temp resets, so this temp. drop tonight
is a classic example that is very much needed and appreciated.
Today should also be considered a lesson to those who are easily
put off by ground/base level rainy forecast icons when temps
are very close to zero C, as we have also written many times
about the typical likelihood of cooler Mountain elevations to
produce snowfall.
So, as it frequently happens...
Bottom Line: If you missed freshly snow’d trails
today because of a ground level rainy forecast,
you made a big mistake.
------------------- 7:25 A.M. Orig. Post ----------------------
84(*) Open Trails On All 4 Sectors At #Tremblant .
Dear Mother Nature...
“SOS” Save Our Snow, SVP.
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Just a tiny bit of cooperation from Mother Nature would
be greatly appreciated within the concept of “Save Our Snow”.
Will it happen? We think yes, and while the long range forecast
frequently goes up and down like an elevator at the Empire State
Building, statistically, this final month long seasonal period does
reliably produce a lot more winter snow.
Weather Notes:
Please Note: These hourly temps within low, single digit “+” C values
could produce snowfall over cooler Mountain Elevations.
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Conditions Notes:
Today is basically a functional extension of yesterday. Both the
surface performance and the weather should be completely similar.
The timing of individual bands of active weather may be different,
but Mountain utility in terms of alternating periods of wet/dry,
misty/foggy, even occasionally clear, should be very much the same.
For that reason please refer to yesterday by using the “Previous
Topic” buttons, page top/bottom for our notes on coping with
adverse weather that has clinically great skiing. There are multiple
paragraphs in yesterdays post that have a high degree of probability
for being equally applicable to today.
There is one addition we would make and that would be the use
of curved industrial yellow lens safety glasses instead of goggles
for enhanced vision capability. It’s already warm out so you do not
need insulation around your eyes, you just need to keep any
atmospheric misty droplets or fine rain out of your eyes at descent
speeds and the yellow tint restores about 85.341% of the viewing
contrast that is usually lost in the foggy blur. These can be purchased
at almost any Hardware Store on planet Earth, typically around $10.00
bucks, +/-, on sale, and you just keep them in your skiers kit bag for
these kinds of days.
The highest degree of consistent quality is obviously going to be
in the freshly groomed array, and across all rated skill levels.
The Sous Bois/Hors Piste and Un-Groomed are the most restricted
and closed category but we do not think that is for lack of snow.
If you have not already scrolled back to yesterday, be sure to do
that before you go because we put a “Proof Of Snow” in there, where
we illustrate snowpack depth crudely measured at an unknown depth
over a metre within the open Lowell Thomas sector. There will be even
more in the Sous Bois Edge Sector, so we think the closures in these
zones are proactive terrain preservation for more favourable future weather.
The adverse weather is likely to keep the attendance on the low end
of the weekend scale, especially after lunch when all the remaining
Ontario Spring Breaker’s race off into the sunset.
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84/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for March 20, 2022, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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