T360 Mid-Evening Apres Ski Edit @ 7:55 P.M.
REVISED Open Trails to 71(*), Archive Data Attached Below.
Sunny, Eh???
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It may well be sunny somewhere within the forecast boundaries
for our local region, however, the Mountain has more often than
not, been totally cloudy, even foggy on any of the sunny days
forecasted for last month the Mountain has been open. Today included.
You can use the “Previous Topic” button in the top-right corner
of the post to scroll back for yourself and compare the forecast
with the actual pic’s of that forecasted period. The good news in
some of that, is that those overcast days were in some cases
very close to Zero C, so the cloud cover acted as an umbrella
which is a very good thing for snow conditions at a Ski Resort
as Solar radiation is the last thing snow needs at Zero C, or close.
Sun, or no sun, had nothing to do with how Fast
the Snow was today!
However...
The foggy vision at the Summit today also included
a very fine, as in small, airborne particle that
was not rain, but created a frozen residue on
goggle lens. That gave vision a double whammy,
so extreme care and slow speeds were necessary
to descend safely in restricted vision zones anywhere.
Photography was correspondingly impractical as
lens smear occurred in seconds.
Due to the variable thickness of the cloud-fog, there were
brief moments of short-range clearing gaps, but they
seemed to pass over very quickly.
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The vision was definitely longer range on the lower
portions of the Mountain and that’s where you got
to freely, safely, sample the speed.
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When you look closely above at the carved imprints from previous
skiers, it’s not hard to see that the performance today was exceptional... again.
More Apres Ski to follow if time permits, but in mean-time,
look below at tomorrow’s forecast @ “+”2C and Sunny????.
Maybe?
---------------------- 6:57 A.M. Orig. Post ------------------------
63(*) Open Trails on Versant Sud, South, and Versant Nord, North, Sides at #Tremblant .
This is exactly what you need to know
about the performance at Tremblant today...
Easy.
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99.9% of Skiers and Snowboarders with more than a day or two
of experience, are instantly going to be able to recognize the “Easy”
in the above pic.
Within the open, groomed terrain, and within your actual
Skill Level, matched to posted trail rated challenge levels,
all of Tremblant is roughly 95% “Easy” as well.
We say 95% because to be realistic, “Perfect” exists in concept
only, and there are the odd slick and icy bits that can, and do
happen even when things are very close to ideal.
Technically, it’s still “Fall” for 2 more days and it is almost
incredible that we have had so much genuine “Winter”,
so far this Fall. Normally, Fall Skiing would have had some
really mild temp. swings by now, but we have not seen
even 1 significant “Warm” event yet. It’s almost miraculous.
That may change(**)... but for today, you need to live
in the moment and enjoy, because for the very lucky
chosen few in attendance today, there should be some
“Best Of Season, So-Far” conditions across the entire
array of Open Tremblant Terrain.
One aspect of the generalized open and groomed
terrain is the consistency of soft top layers for
turning performance. If you consider the pic.
above as representative of Versant Nord,
the North Side, then the pic. below is
representative of Versant Sud, the South Side.
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Above shows obvious ability of skis to get into the top layers for
turning performance with almost any style technique and this
is typical of virtually all the open, groomed terrain.
Weather Notes:
What we like in this forecast, at least for today,
is the low wind speed component. Any sub-zero C
temps are exponentially easier to handle with
low or no wind, so that will always continue to
be our most favoured weather factor.
The light breezes indicated in this model should
be crossing the Summit from over the Soleil side,
moving towards Nansen, so combined with the
exceptional early season Skiing, absolutely
excellent potential for an amazing, wonderful,
and quietly enjoyable day.
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(**):
This also has the potential to generate Snowfall over
cooler Mountain elevations.
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Conditions Notes:
In the Sous Bois, Glade, Hors Piste, Un-Groomed:
a la Carte. Early season excellence, however, but not
with 300 or 400 “+” cm’s of mid-season accumulations, yet.
Natural hazards of organic and Pre-Cambrian inorganic
exist within the Open terrain and may be Snow-Camo covered.
Use your head and caution with speed and navigation
to verify safe passage before you go ripping around.
Do not assume.
In the Groomed:
95% Excellent. Very small surface anomalies may
be encountered as discussed above in this post,
however, the overwhelming majority of groomed
trail surfaces are simply wonderful for this time
of year. From a standpoint of optimized Ski/Board
performance utility, fresh, sharp edges are a significant
mechanical advantage for all Skill Levels.
Just A Little Reminder...
This is the basis for the overall early season
excellence of Tremblant right now.
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Go ASAP, if you can...
63(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for December 19, 2018, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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------------------- REVISED Open Trails to 71(*) ---------------------------
71(*)REVISED Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for December 19, 2018, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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For the small group of loyal regular readers
here at Tremblant360.com, today marks the
exact 10th Anniversary of our very first post
in this Mountain Report Forum.
It has, is, and continues to be, our privilege
to be able to share the Tremblant Alpine
Skiing and Snow Sports story with all who
may find this record. We hope that it is
useful in any degree of either understanding
or utility.
Since Humans have carved or painted pictures on
the walls of caves we have amused ourselves with
the creation of records and historic review. If nothing
else then, this is a single source of recorded history for
whatever value any chronologically sequential record
may have.
Links and not-so-fine print:
http://www.tremblant.ca
What’s The Use? Research Benefits of this Archive: http://tinyurl.com/gp5vjps
(*)
Understanding Trail Counts - http://alturl.com/n54py http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/trailmap-e.htm
http://www.tremblant.ca/galleries/webcams/index-e.htm
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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.
(
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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