There are Two Immediate, Predominant Concerns for Tremblant Alpine Snow Sport Fans.
The first is the existing Alpine Snow Sport Trail System including its stability
and development.
The Second is the massive extreme Storm Weather System that is forecast to
wreck havoc on the Entire Eastern North American Continental Region over the
next 72 Hours or so.
First, because it’s Figuratively, ”Today”... or in the case of this Pic. “Yesterday”...
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so many New Openings, it’s hard to keep up with!
That’s exactly the kind of Challenge Skiers/Boarders are looking for. Exploring
New Terrain to find the Best Lines is an Unwritten Law of Skiing/Boarding and
there’s been no shortage of discovery, particularly when Big Tremblant Names
like La Griffe, Nansen Summit to Base, Devils River, Kandahar, Sissy Schuss,
Fuddle Duddle, Edge Sector Opening, to name some examples, have all been
newly introduced.
We have commented on the Overall Starting Surface Quality as a Big User Friendly
Asset, particularly in the Learning Areas. For the most part, Trail Opening Surfaces
have been almost Mid-Winter. There is still a “Range” of surfaces though, with variable
Particle Size in the Top, Finished Layer and we’re going to take a sample look at
that Range below. Our Sample is the Sissy Schuss Haut, to Fuddle Duddle Bas
descent path.
On the upper portion of Sissy Schuss, there are courser sized chunks, the largest
of which might be about the size of a Large Marshmallow, right on down to the very
finest of Beach Sand Granular.
This Pic Below, makes that pretty clear as the complete size range is in the air
right in plain view.
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are linked at the Mid-Point in a continuous single path, the surface on lower
Fuddle Duddle was almost pure Icing Sugar, Very, Very Sweet!
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Ski/Board Traffic contributes to the Particle Size reduction on all newly
Opened Blown and Groomed Trails. We think this year has seen a very
noticeable improvement in initial Quality, such that on many of the newly
opened Trails, less, or no break-in is necessary at all. Does Practice make Perfect?
New Techniques or Strategies? We’re not sure of the exact reasons, but
we sure do like the results!
La Griffe Opened Very Firm, Very Smooth and as we’ve seen with the Other
Steeper New Trails, after a days use, a bit prone to an Icy Centre.
We fear that most of the most Vocal Feedback that we hear getting passed
around about “Icy” is mostly from Intermediates who have been tempted to
get onto Expert Terrain. (**)
If you stand on the side of La Griffe to take pictures for 5 minutes, you will clearly
see that those who are struggling are Not Experts, but there they are, right in the
middle of one of Tremblant’s finest Black Diamond Trails.
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Short radius Parallel Turns... on either side.
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We encourage all Intermediates to Master Expert Challenges, but not to whine
about them when that decision is made. Thoughtful, Intelligent Experts, and
Intermediates too, do not whine about conditions, they figure them out and
adapt and/or take Lessons to Master them for the Benefit of Advancing Skills
and Abilities.
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Terrain Development Samples:
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Promenade/Flying Mile, but they’re definitely workin’ on something!
Second Big Item Today...
Complex Weather Notes:
We say “Complex” because for more than One reason, there can be more than
One Outcome.
Basically... what Tremblant Fans need to remember is that while the advancing
Mega-System is going to produce an enormous Eastern North American Regional
impact, the final outcome on the Precious Slopes of Tremblant can not yet
be written off as totally Negative, due to “Tipping Points” that can occur when
the Ambient Base Level Temps are at So Close To Zero and the Summit is
consequently Lower with THE TYPICAL, COOLER, ELEVATION DIFFERENTIAL.
Yes, things could be rainy, but... the currently forecasted High Temp value for
the entire Event System is +5C for 2 Hours... the rest of the time, the High temps
are mostly around +2 or +3 C. The Typical Tremblant Summit Level Cooler
temps are around 4C LOWER than Base levels. Therefore... the possibility exists
that Tremblant’s Summit Sectors... could... maybe... possibly... have a chance of...
remaining Sub-Zero, and if that was the case, the precipitation at Summit Levels
could be Snow.
The Number of Variable Influencing Factors makes it Impossible to Predict Outcomes
because if the realities delivered even a Degree or two “Warmer” ... or if they delivered
a Degree or two “Cooler” ... at these close proximities to Zero, those critical Tipping
Points could profoundly change the results.
On Top Of That...
The biggest single “Wild Card” in the whole works is... The Wind.
The Weather Network is currently forecasting Peak Gusts in excess of 100KMPH
within the Regional Geographic boundaries of the system. If we see much of that
here, Lift Operations Could Be Affected.
The “Weather” happens... there’s not a damn thing we can do about that, but
we can at least allow for the chance that it may not turn out as poorly as
the Pessimists would want us to imagine.
In our opinion(and we could be wrong), at these forecasted Temps, for this forecasted
Duration... the Alpine Snow Sport Trail System Base will not suffer to a Significant
Degree. Cosmetically, the winds will take out all the Snow in the trees, but we do
not think there will be any big loss of Trail Surface coverage.
We also think that the Mountain Operations Group at Tremblant probably think
similarly or they would not have made the Huge Investments in Terrain expansion
in recent days. They have access to Weather Forecasting Models way beyond what
us regular people have, and we suspect that the continued development of New
Terrain reflects the Confidence they have in the future.
46(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for December 23, 2014,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
scroll ----->>> for complete data display.
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Very Progressive Page assembly due to Family Christmas Travel/Activity.
Thanks for your Patience.
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Bring Back The Memories... 
Research Future Visits... If you would like to look up dates you visited Tremblant, or you
want to research days/weeks/months to visit, you can sample what
they look like historically, month by month, year by year.
GoTo: Archive, Search Reports by Date: Index: http://tinyurl.com/yktelmu
When reviewing dates from any of the past, numbered, archived pages,
you can use the "Previous Topic" or "Next Topic" buttons, located
screen far right, in upper date/message bar to scroll through sequential
dates, or use your browsers "back" button to stay on the selected index
page for non-sequential date reviews in either forward or reverse order.
There are approximately 6, 25 day Index pages per season.
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If you "Bookmark" the link above, it will always take you to theFirst index page with the latest posts. That gives you an immediate,
current to 25 day past, review scroll of Winter Alpine Conditions by
consecutive date.)
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