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A Lot Less Firm Or Icy, A Lot More Carving!


Today Delivered A Significant Upgrade In Grooming
We’ve Been Looking For As Part Of The Natural
Progression Following Adverse Weather.



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The improvements are are of course most noticeable at first tracks
and because the surfaces are rather sensitive due to somewhat
still shallow top layers, it does not take long for heavily used
trails to exhibit signs of wear and inevitable bump building, however...

In particular, much of the lesser traveled Expert terrain had practically
all day very fine carving conditions with even, Expert user patterns that
tend to be more symmetrical compared to some of the lesser skill levels
with higher traffic volume and mixed skill level sharing, where more uneven,
random surface bump patterns were less predictable.

From that specific perspective, there was Black terrain that was easier than
some Blue terrain.




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For Tomorrow:


----------- Environment Canada Special Weather Statement ------------



There are definite “Wild Card” possibilities to this weather
referred to above, due to the unpredictable degree or extent
of the system’s geographical dimensions, not to mention
the composition of the precipitation.

We will need to be ready for anything, but there is some
potential for it to be snow over Tremblant’s cooler elevations.






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


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


In A Quiet Sort Of Way,
The Conditions At Tremblant
Are Still Beautiful.



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It’s been a wee bit foggy, but every single day
we’ve found great technical fun on a select basis
across all Skill Levels, and incrementally, each
grooming night shift has delivered increases
in the overall range of quality.




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Weather Notes:


Another easy, quiet day. Look at the hourly wind speed
projections. One of our very most favourite weather
co-factors. Especially important when the ambient temp’s
are floating around Zero C and Mother Nature takes a
break from blowing warm air around at any significant
speed.







Conditions Notes:


The references to technical skiing skills that we’ve been making
since December 23, 2022, still apply in an overall sense because
of the unusual influences of sudden massive amounts of natural
snowfall, followed immediately by a “January Thaw”.

The best thing we can say is that thank goodness the “Massive
Snowfall” part came first.

Even if the consequent complexity has generated unique
challenges, at least Mountain Crews have the basic raw
material to work with since they initially consolidated
the new snow into the groomed trail network.

It has been, and continues to be, important to match your
realistic abilities with posted challenge levels and to even
default to one level lower for first tracks in order to confirm
your safe passage. The combination of surface thickness and
traffic generated bumps ’n lump’s has frequently increased
difficulty beyond normal trail ratings.




For Your Info., And Best Results,
Consult With These Folks...


The unique Tremblant Info.Ski team is an entirely volunteer
group of local/regional Tremblant regular skiers who exist
purely for your benefit as a traveling guest. They are fully
bi-lingual and radio controlled from a central command
post where up-to-the-minute changes in open terrain
or lift status are instantly communicated and available
so YOU can optimize every single run. We consult with
them every single day, and when you’re on the Mountain
you should too.



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Otherwise...

Technically speaking, it’s still early season too,
so finished trail dimensions are not always fully
developed, consequently, space has to be shared
by a wide range of skill sets, sometimes in larger
numbers of traffic concentrations.

Below is one example of the benefits of being
a legitimate Expert. The traffic volume here has
left the trail centre with a highly polished, very
firm surface that is not necessarily icy, but certainly
is “firm”, very dense trail base. The Expert asset is
the ability to make repetitive short-radius turns
on the soft trail edges.


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In the Sous Bois/Hors Piste/Glades and Un-Groomed
trail categories the weather has certainly caused an
availability disruption, partly due to what we think
could be a preservation strategy, and partly due to
the erosive loss of coverage by the recent rainy spells.
We can tell you for a fact that there are many zones
with loads of snow, and quite a few with not much snow.
It seems to us that this is all due to the literal hurricane
force winds that gusted up to around 120KMPH over
the Mountains elevations and left immense zones of
both back-fill drifting and wind-force stripping.

Another Sous Bois factor that is very visibly apparent is
the obvious number of trees uprooted and knocked over
sideways. For only one example, riding up the Expo
Quad on Versant Nord, the North Side, there are dozens,
maybe hundreds of trees toppled over with huge root
patches that have been ripped right out of the ground.
To be safe, some of these Sous Bois zones will need
either several feet of snow, or, mechanical evacuation,
i.e., to be cut up and carried away before access may
be possible.

It’s hard to tell how the future of the Sous Bois is
going to evolve in the immediate sense. There are
so many unusual irregularities in the depths. There
are spots with over a metre of snow, then 20 feet
away, it’s been wind-blown so hard its almost bare
ground. When Mother Nature has literally thrown
in a whole bunch of lateral tripping hazards, i.e.
knocked over trees, it’s a bit of a messy mix that
really needs a few feet of new snow to bury it all
to the point of being safe again.






53/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for January 3, 2023, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca



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