3 Open Trails.
In terms of technical merit as a working decent...
Thank Goodness For Trail # 72 !
When you absolutely need to rely on just one jewel
in the Ski World crown, the one, the only...
Versant Nord/North Side, P’tit Bonheur.
If there’s one trail that can do it all, this is the one.
Here’s a file shot from last season that illustrates just
some of the utility and beauty of this world class trail.
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As part of that assessment, we need to acknowledge
that in the case of Opening Day, one very important
factor in the realm of “do it all”, is to simply to be
able to exist with sufficient cold below Zero C.
This needs to be for long enough, pre-season, to
facilitate snowmaking accumulations that can cover
and be retained in dimensions necessary to host the
volume of Opening Day skiers with a safe and high
performance scope of terrain.
P’tit Bonheur is just that trail. Tucked away behind,
and just below the Summit peak at the top of the
Versant Nord/North Side, when base level temps are
still just above Zero C, this trail at the typical -4 C cooler
elevations, comes through with the physical properties
necessary to be built and endure at the very earliest
times of the season.
Included herein is an archival copy of the Tremblant Official
Season Opening notice that was published yesterday:
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Weather Notes:
Part A:
Our standard weather graphic presentation is changing.
If you’ve ever had an experience with a web presentation
that was nearly perfect, then the information providers
decided to “improve” or “update” it and the consequence
was actually less user-friendly, that’s what has happened
with our traditional weather data source this season.
We can no longer generate the compact and concise format
it had evolved to in the previous seasons because the basic
layout no longer exists and the new layout is very large and
cumbersome, so excerpts are no longer practical for an
efficient display.
Sorry about that, but when you’re faced with changes
that have become virtually unusable, you may have to
adapt to a completely different mode.
All we are ever interested in though is a clinical/archival
record of the day and a reasonable outlook for near-term
Ski/Board day planning so we hope this covers those bases.
Regular readers will recognize elements of this new
display from previous Weather Notes in past seasons
so we’re both thankful and appreciative that there are
still presentable forms of data, however it may take us
a few days to get comfortable, and faster with formatting
and display detail.
Part B:
The current long range profile should provide
excellent opportunity for both Mother Nature
and Mountain Crews to generate snow.
Better late than never...
We might have like to have seen this pattern
about 2 or 3 weeks ago, however it’s here
now and with sub-Zero’s becoming the
ambient influence we’re on the way to winter!
One thing we need to keep in mind is that
technically it is still “Fall”, and these temp
ranges we’ve had are not all that unusual.
The best part of the long range forecast is the
sustained, ‘round the clock, 24-7 below Zero C
that will permit every day, all day snowmaking.
With the wind velocity forecasting here we also
see considerable potential for Orographic snowfall
multiplication over elevations which could raise
the probability of natural accumulations over
upper trail levels. Look for maybe big snow on
November 29, as well as between December 3,
through December 7.
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Conditions Notes:
Due to the length of the Official Tremblant
preamble for the daily Snow Report, the
message got clipped/shortened in the
printable version of the one-page data
so we are including the entire message
here for the record.
--------- Official Opening Day Preamble: ------------
The 2024-25 winter season is officially kicking off!
As you may have noticed, the unpredictable weather
had an impact on our operations. The mild temperatures
in recent weeks have meant fewer opportunities to run
our snowmaking systems. However, our team is always
on the lookout for every chance to create the perfect
conditions for you. For this opening day, we’re excited
to offer you 2 trails and 2 open lifts. Although the
accessible terrain is classified as beginner, please
consider it suitable for intermediate and advanced
skiers and snowboarders due to the crowding on the
limited terrain. Plan ahead for the end of your day on
the slopes, as the return to the South base will also
need to be done by gondola.
The forecast is promising, allowing us to plan for the
opening of more skiable slopes and lifts in the near future.
Several areas of the mountain are undergoing gradual
snowmaking, taking into account the needs for our
upcoming events: the PwC Tremblant World Cup on
December 7-8 and the 24h Tremblant from December 13-15.
------------------- End Of Preamble -----------------
As far as the one open Summit to Versant Nord/North Side
mid-Mountain P’tit Bonheur decent/elevation down to the
Lowell Thomas Quad, you can expect a firm, largely machine
generated blown snow base that will have mixed particle
sizes common to groomed initial quality that has not yet
had the benefit of Ski/Board traffic to help render out finer
crystalline composition.
We refer to day-1 as the first stage of a “break-in” process
and as people use the trail over many repeated cycles, any
coarseness in the granular nature of the surfaces should
become finer, as in smaller, and more natural feeling,
almost by the hour.
Opening Terrain Expansion Notes:
Naturally, there is a huge interest in the promise of open
terrain expansion very quickly and the best indicators of
that are the snowmaking icons on the Official report below.
Beauvallon Haut/Upper and Alpine are great signs for both
public and race training, plus Biere-En-Bas to Roy Scott
certainly do offer near-term prospects for ski-out potential
to the Sud/South Resort base.
Snowmaking icons within the Lowell Thomas sector, Rigodon
in particular are noteworthy as that is often another prime early
season race training zone, so that probably means Lowell
Thomas and Rope Tow trails to either La Traverse or Lowell
Thomas Bas/Lower may be developed for public use “soon”.
Due to big events and their infrastructure at the Resort base,
we think the real magic begins to happen when we see
Beauchemin Bas/Lower with snowmaking icons attached, as
that signals the closeness of Summit-to-base Nord/North
ski-out. We suspect that weather permitting, that may happen
within the next week(?).
We heard through the grapevine that there could be a real
push to get Nansen Bas/Lower going ASAP as an early priority
to accommodate public skier traffic to the Sud/South base
in light of the restrictions that may be around the F.I.S. zone.
3/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open
Trails, Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for November 28, 2024, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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