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T360 Prime Time Evening Apres Ski Under Progressive Assembly at 9:59 P.M.


Really, really foggy atmospheric conditions over the Mountain, adding
to the complexity of thick, bumpy, fresh snow trail surfaces.






We were right about some things, and wrong about some things, but in a right way???

Firstly, it was all snow over the Mountains complete trail network today.
Very thick, dense, and wet snow, but all snow, so at the Resort Base temp
@ +1 C, things could have been a lot worse, as in rain. To our knowledge
not a single drop up on the trails.

What we were right about was a reference to “Traffic that could build
moguls in minutes”, but what we were wrong about was the fact that
we limited that reference to Sous Bois, because moguls built very
quickly and covered substantial square areas in the form of washboard
stretches of almost all trail surfaces, and that ran in many cases, for
entire descent lines.

We can say for sure that Mountain Crews have an immense amount of
grooming work to do in tonight’s night-shift to get the washboard
bumps flattened out. They were so pronounced that it became difficult
to maintain any carving technique because the bumps would simply
toss you into the air at any speed beyond a walking pace. The situation
today was made more challenging by the busy Sunday Weekend attendance
that certainly accelerated the wear factors by pure traffic volume over
such a rapidly accumulated fresh snowfall, plus the foggy vision, so it was
extremely difficult to see the surface irregularities and avoiding them was
impossible.

There was nothing Mountain Crews could do during the day. It was a
prime example of the dominant hand of Mother Nature who periodically
reminds humans about who is the boss.

Below is a close-up of the snow as it plastered tree boughs on upper
Lowell Thomas Trail # 67, just below the Summit.







What you see above is wind propelled snow that has literally filled
in all the spaces between the needles of a Fur tree, driven there
by sheer speed. The snow particles are actually very small, but
billions of them coming all at once certainly made for an impressive
total accumulation where ever it could settle.

What you see below is a moment of clarity on mid Sissy Schuss,
although the flat, low contrast light does not nearly effectively illuminate
the washboard effect here.








The situation for Monday should be considerably different in terms of
all-day wear factors because it is a week-day work-day, so way fewer
attending and consequently less stress, plus one additional overnight
grooming cycle to improve the compaction of all the new snow into the base.

We continue to support our hypothesis in the original post below about
Tuesday being an optimized day for conditions based on the reasons we
outline in that post, so you can scroll down to see that detail.

The bottom line for tomorrow, Monday, is... Tonight’s Grooming is
tomorrow’s user friendly.




---------------- 5:55 A.M. Orig. Post: -----------------------


102/102(*) Open Trails on Sud/South, Nord/North, Soleil and Edge Sectors at #Tremblant .

21cm’s of fresh overnight Snowfall,
and more on the way throughout today!


Even On A Super Snowy Grey Day, You Can Always Find The
Colours Of Fun At Tremblant!







There will be miles ’n miles of great fun for all Skill Levels
today, however due to variable degrees of thickness from
humidity or drifting, there could be any number of complexities
in surfaces today so we are recommending initial descents
should all be at appropriately matched skill levels to rated
terrain challenge. It is possible you may see some Ski Patrol
Hand Posted Trail Signage, so pay attention to all those unique
advisories, they mean what they say.







Weather Notes:

It may be hovering at Zero C at Resort Base levels, but up at Cooler
Mountain Elevations, it’s been -3C and snowing off/on all night to
accumulate an Official 21cm’s. There was some rain in the early
evening last night, but sitting in Le Shack Apres Ski, you could
actually see the line of demarkation as the change to snow was
visible at upper Johannsen, so we think it’s safe to say there was
all snow on the Alpine Trail Network.

With a daytime high indicated at +1C in the hourly forecast below,
and all snow in the precip. icons, what that tells us is that the air strata
above the Mountain are well below Zero C and evidently there’s going
to be enough of a Polar mix to keep it cool up there all day.










Conditions Notes:


It will be critical for Beginners and Intermediates to initially stick with
the trails that have the overnight grooming within their respective
Skill Level ratings because snow delivered at these close to Zero C
temps. is typically quite high on the internal humidity scale which
you may perceive as heavy, thick or somewhat damp. That will make
it more difficult where it does not have the flattened, packed and
groomed advantage. All initial explorations should be undertaken
with reduced speed to confirm safe passage. The wind component
may have allowed for some deeper drifting in places as well as
some icy bits where wide open exposures prevented retention.
You want to find all those features at reduced speed that permit
instant control inputs for safe line-of-sight VFR navigation.

We think the ultimate utility for this snowfall will be the processed
addition it makes to the existing base as it is what we would call
“Construction Grade” snow. It naturally packs to high levels of density,
so when packed and groomed by a 20,000Lbs machine it will form
one of the seasons major strata additions. When hand-packed, it
forms super dense “Ballistic Grade” snowballs that remain fully
formed and land with very high energy. An experienced Snowball
maker could hand-pack, and with sufficient throwing force, break
windows with this stuff.

In the Sous Bois, Glades and Hors Piste, this snow will tend to be
quite thick as it is going to compress under its own weight. Where
it has drifted in and settled, it may be difficult to push through.

Where there’s enough Glade traffic, it will build moguls in minutes.

As far as future planning is concerned for Mid-Week attending Tremblant
Fans, we think Tuesday will be a day of optimized conditions for 2 main
reasons:

1) 2 extra Night-Shifts of Grooming should render out very nicely
refined surfaces.

2) The Overnight Low Temp up at Mountain Elevations could get
down to somewhere between -17C and -19C, over Monday night
and that has a good probability of potentially freeze-drying out
humidity from all surfaces to variable degrees. If that happened...
if... if... if..., that could render a huge user-friendly asset specifically
to the Sous Bois, Glades, Hors Piste.








102/102(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for January 26, 2020, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca





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Official 21 cm’s of new snowfall!

You know what to do!








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