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Despite the “Sunny” icons in the hourly forecast today,
it never made it on any level of overall. There were some
flashes on the Sud/South Base, but overall, the Mountain
was grey, all day.



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This eve’s Apres Ski is a mini trail review, however the additional
significance is the similarity between this trail and the majority
of other opening trails.

In other words, the description here can be applied likewise
to most other opening trails.

In this case, the specific review is of Versant Nord/North Side Trail # 94, La Griffe.


As a general comment, we would say that the very high quality of
the La Griffe surfaces could legitimately be compared to a good
La Griffe day in the third week of February. It was indeed that good,
actually, extraordinary.



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It may have been unique, it may be a bit of a magical combination
of recent temperatures, snowmaking, grooming and the fact that
this corner of the Mountain had a fractional exposure to the recent
rainy bits, plus it’s stayed colder over here, but regardless of the
individual elements, the net result was opening excellence.



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Below:
We were going toss this out of focus skier, but the pin-sharp
focus on the snow very accurately conveys the shred performance
that was composed of about 3 cm’s of loose machine groomed
top layer, but the magic part was what seems to be a tiny residual
moisture softness below the top layers of another 3 cm’s giving
a total of about 6 cm’s of total grip depth that for all intent, had
zero ice, nada, none, so the whole run was equally shreddable
from top-to-bottom. Fantastic for opening, fantastic for anytime.



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What appears to be coarseness of particle size was actually very soft
bits that broke up on contact, so you could not feel them at all underfoot.
This trail could easily handle all the edge you could give it with very
secure hold, so the actual challenge was personal muscle levels to
take advantage of the massive grip potential.


What you see here is the runout to trail #78, Fuddle-Duddle Bas/Lower.
The visible ski tip is to provide relative scale to the surface characteristics.



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Excerpt from our Orig. Post Below:


"One thing almost certain, for sure, with all the new terrain,
plus all the 24 Event course back on-line, tomorrow, Monday,
should be a hidden gem of early season excellence.”

After the reality of today, we stand by that call for tomorrow 100%.










------------------ 5:59 A.M Orig. Post --------------------


33(*) Open Trails On Sud/South And Nord/North Sectors At #Tremblant .


--------------- 6:13 P.M. Insert Update: -----------------------

REVISED Open Trails To 31(*).

Archival Data Attached Below.

Please Note: This revised open trail count
occurred during open hours and it is included
here Apres Ski as an update to the stat’s du Jour.


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It’s been really sunny, often cloudless sunny, so for
all that are concerned about the lack of sun exposure
during the Northern winter...


Get Your Vitamin D At Tremblant!



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Coincidentally, during the busy 24 Hour Children’s Charity Event,
the members of the unique Tremblant Info.Ski team are your
absolute best source of daily information about open trail status
as well as Resort infrastructure access. Optimize your day on the
slopes by consulting with them often.

On a day like today with the event ending at noon, things could
literally be changing by the hour.



Two Areas Of Big New Opening Terrain Potential Today:

1) Versant Nord/North Side Duncan Bas/Lower,
together with Vanier, from the Expo Quad peak.

Maybe, possibly, could be, might be, perhaps
if we’re lucky, no guarantee’s on this one...

2) The 24 Hour Children's Charity Event ends
at noon today, history shows that the afternoon
could see the ropes come down on some of the
course restrictions, allowing the public back on.
Key word... “Maybe".



Otherwise, we have the temp’s for snow, it’s now -8C in
the exact spot this pic. was taken from, but what would be
nice, what we need from Mother Nature, is some more
natural snowfall, and that is on the way, it may just take
a few days. More on that below.




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First New Sector Snowmaking Development News:

Snowmaking On Soleil Sector, Trail # 40, Franc Sud.
If you look very, very closely in the above pic, you can
just barely spot a couple of small hazy bits in the
upper right corner of the visible Summit sector of
the Mountain. That is “Franc Sud” snowmaking which
was also confirmed with the icon indicated on the Official
Trail Status data from yesterdays reporting.

Snowmaking on Franc Sud eventually and/or typically leads
to snowmaking on either or both trails # 95, Algonquin,
and/or, trail # 41, Toboggan. In this case, with todays Versant
Soleil snowmaking icon attached to Algonquin, that’s fantastic
news for future new terrain that we would estimate opening
within the next week to 10 days. This could very importantly
be attached to the 14 day long range weather forecast included
in todays posting.




Weather Notes:


For today, the hourly forecast icons have changed from
sunny to cloudy and back to mostly sunny, all within
the last few hours, so what that tells us is that it could
go either way, leaning towards the current sunny indications.

The other functional detail in todays forecast is the windy
bits that may be noticeable as there is quite a bit of potential
for peak gusts to be quite forceful, so even though the projected
day-time high temp is numerically easy, the wind chill will
want you to bundle up a bit to keep them pesky wind leaks
to a minimum.



For Forward Christmas Holiday Planners:

The prospects for a “White Christmas” are now at about 95%
for sure. Look at the snowfall icons in the 14 day outlook
and you’ll see why we feel very safe in this prediction, so far.
"Subject To Confirmations By Mother Nature."










Conditions Notes:


This is day 3 after the last thermal spell, so there should
be an almost universal degree in groomed refinement
within all the previously opened terrain where the
multiple Sub-Zero C grooming cycles will have rendered
out a lot of very fine, as in small, particles for high quality
descent performance.

In the newest opened terrain, like the Versant Nord/North
Side Duncan Bas/Lower, there will most likely be what we
refer to as a “Break-in” characteristics of courser size particles
that are the consequence of the initial machine processing
of blown snow coverage. Typically, you begin to see these
fresh new surfaces begin to respond to skier/boarder traffic
within hours, as the repeated passage of sharp edges over
what tends to be a granular base, breaks that granularity
down in a quickly evolving way.

It is very important to note that while we’ve seen some
common late Fall warm blip’s, and there’s been a couple
of rainy days, there was a tremendous amount of very early
snowfall that was integrated into the developing open terrain
base and virtually none of that well compacted base has been
compromised since Opening.



Notes On The 24 Hour Children’s Charity Event Traffic:

Yesterday we included a 12:25 P.M. Weather/Conditions
observational excerpt from the Web Cams and it showed
what we might call the recent years of typical Event weekend
traffic profile where the Sud/South is quite active, maybe even
busy, while the Nord/North is not busy and it is literally ski-on
for most of the day.

It may not be the same today, but there is a high
probability that it will be, especially this afternoon,
when the usual exodus of the weekend warriors
begins to happen at just around 12:30 P.M.

If, if, if... that happens, and if, if, if, the ropes come
down and some of the 24 Hour Event course becomes
available, it could be an extraordinary afternoon for
all that have the good sense to be here until last run.

Plan For It If You Can...

One thing almost certain, for sure, with all the new terrain,
plus all the 24 Event course back on-line, tomorrow, Monday,
should be a hidden gem of early season excellence. Of course...
this concept may be extendable over the entire time period
between now and Christmas Eve.

Can you escape to ski?






33/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for December 11, 2022, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca


--------------- 6:13 P.M. Insert Update: -----------------------

REVISED Open Trails To 31(*).

Archival Data Attached Below.

Please Note: This revised open trail count
occurred during open hours and it is included
here Apres Ski as an update to the stat’s du Jour.




31/102(*) REVISED Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for December 11, 2022, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca



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