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T360 Late Evening Prime Time Apres Ski Edit, Under Construct @ 10:18 P.M.


Very Fine Ghost Skiing.


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The partially sunny components of the hourly weather forecast
just never happened. Quite the contrary, as you can see from
these Apres Ski pic’s, it was many shades of grey.

The experience of silently gliding past the ghost-like shapes
of Mother Nature today was very unique, very etherial, almost
spooky, and completely captivating in a quietly majestic way.

There were moments of what we might call limited clarity too.
The cloud fog was wind-driven and despite the common thickness,
there were variable degrees of intensity that travelled fairly rapidly
across the Mountains contours.



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Below:

How Was The Skiing???

This might look a wee bit blurry, but that’s
only because it’s FAST!

Pretty easy to see the quality of common edge-set performance.
Loads of grip and very low friction equal a very thrilling workout!


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There were fearsome Snowmaking storms going on all over,
no doubt contributing to the foggy ambient atmosphere.
Below is a sample we rode through a few times today,
the Versant Nord/North descent path including Rope Tow
and Rigodon, within the Lowell Thomas Sector, and as seen
from the ascending Lowell Thomas Quad.
Please Note: you can see the Edge Sector peak as a ghost-shadow
in the top left corner of this frame.


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For Tomorrow... Sunny??? Cooler @ -13C, Nor-West Wind @ “Brisk”...
It’s a bundle-up winter day forecast!



----------------- 5:57 A.M. Orig. Post --------------------------


21(*) Open Trails on Sud/South and Nord/North Sectors at #Tremblant.


As the temp’s dropped from Sud/South Base Level +3C to
-8C at the Summit by Last Run, there was a natural re-set
in the substrates, however it was snowing to variable degrees
at the same time, so...

Anyone Who Told You Tremblant Was Too Icy Was Wrong...


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There was a lot of lift-line chatter about “icy”, however in our opinion,
clinically speaking, anyone who told you Tremblant was icy, has dull
edges. For sure, with any dropping temps there will be some icy bits,
but as an overall reference that is not fair or accurate. Perceptions of
icy are directly proportional to edge tuning.


We are endlessly frustrated by lift-line feedback of “icy”, but when you ask
them when they had their Skis or Board tuned, they can not remember
how long ago it was, sometimes in years. Knowledgable Skiers endlessly
talk about conditions, and will both admit to, and get away with old edges
using many adaptive techniques, but compared to average “Consumers”,
they internally realize and understand gear/conditions limitations via
experience, and.. they don’t complain, when necessary, they fix it.


This is still technically “Fall”. It is a totally normal and natural thing
for temperatures to oscillate above and below Zero C/32F during “Fall”.
When those normal and natural temp swings happen, soft becomes
firm or visa-versa. In the specific case of “Soft Becomes Firm”, you
need to bring well tuned edges or you are figuratively bringing a
Pea-Shooter to a Gun Fight. “Bring The Right Tools For The Job” is a
metaphorical phrase we use for many applications, but it is especially
true in Winter Alpine Snow Sports like Skiing and Snowboarding.


We had a great High Performance day yesterday and when we found
zones that were lacking in grip, we automatically default to lesser
pitches or the areas that were getting the best snowfall and in doing so,
were able to find and enjoy very safe speed and control until they
kicked us off the Mountain at Last Run.


Below:
This last run shot on Beauchemin Bas/Lower uses a Ski tip to
add relative scale to the size and quality of the snow, as well
as what we found common in terms of what we call the “Shred Depth”,
i.e., the depth of loose top layers of trail snow that facilitate lateral
grip through edge-set .

This is not “icy”, the performance here is great and we were
easily able to find similar conditions on all points of Open Terrain.



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Below:
As usual for this season so-far, more foggy overcast makes
for challenging photography. It that regard, there have been
goggle vision issues too, but because it’s relatively warm, we’ve
been getting away with goggles up a lot.


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Weather Notes:


It’s been predominantly foggy since Nov. 27, so this forecast
for today will be nice if it happens. With the thickness of the
overcast at this early hour, it seems like a stretch to get to
any degree of “Sunny”, but we continue to hope for the sight
of blue sky anyway...





Conditions Notes:


It’s Monday. That means reduced work-week traffic, PLUS, an
overnight grooming cycle that we hope will render out some
of the re-set firmness in the base, as well as integrate the
new snowfall. This combination should produce all day durability
in consistent trail surface performance.

Please Note: Evidently the light dusting of new snow was not
enough to indicate an official accumulation, however there was
snow falling on/off, and in our opinion it did make a positive
contribution to retained surface performance over the firming base.




21/102(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for December 14, 2020, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca

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There has been an upgrade to the Covid-19 Level
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We do not know exactly how this will impact any future
Mountain utility beyond the provisions of the currently
available Red Zone behavioural protocols. The status
of active or available participation may possibly change
without notice for public health and safety.
Attached below are the Quebec Ski Area’s Policy
and the Tremblant.ca Press Release for 12.14.20



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