keeping all 4 sides of Tremblant White!
(Today's pic's are from our recent past of excellent sustained
mid-winter conditions. Each pic. file is date/info labeled.
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Today's Forecast for "Sunny With Some Cloud."
So you can look for this...
When Conditions Are This Great,
People Jump Into Action At Tremblant!
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"Durability", "Undisturbed" and "Preservation" of the full winter
surface conditions.
That's the best part of these retro-pic's, they are all
from recent days/weeks, but all these conditions are still here,
right this second.
And You Can Look For This Too...
Fabulous Cruising On All The Groomed Terrain...
like this Versant Soleil Toboggan sample.
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This Wide Angle off the top of the Flying Mile Quad makes the Summit
look a bit further away than it is, but it shows the scope of the main
portions of the Summit South Sector with it's wide array of trail
selections, all of which can be Skied/Boarded on from the TGV Quad,
shown here, lower screen right.
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Actual overnight low -7C.
Forecasted day-time high, -8C, so we're already above expected.
We can live with that, just as long as we don't see any
proportional increase during the day...
The dip's 'n dives of the 5 day weather models suggest
a more stable pattern this morning than they have for the past 2 days.
Earlier, they suggested that we'd see a 2 or 3 day exposure to either
zero or 2 degrees plus, but as of this morning, they're now saying
that may only be one day near zero and the rest at just below.
We like that. Any extension of consistent sub-zero is an extension of
undisturbed Snow Surfaces and a reduction of the possibility of surface
thaw and freeze. It's not that we'd loose any terrain at all, there's still
way too much snow for that to happen, but what we like to see is
the preservation of as high a surface "Snow" content as possible before
all those thermal "transition" factors begin to cycle.
This the time when we're thankful for all those -20, -30 C overnight lows
we've had up 'til the last 10 nights or so ago...
Those very cold, crisp nights over a period of 2 or more months on/off
have put the frost very deep into the Mountain, so the ambient cold
storage within the bedrock that results, is now going to become our best
friend for surface durability.
At this stage, the Mountain can even take a few days of slightly "plus"
temps with little or no deterioration of "Snow" surfaces due to Convection.
The principles of physic's involved with convection that most are familiar
with, are basically "hot air rises", but in our case, what we're interested in
is the opposite... "cold air sinks". We have this huge mass of conically shaped
Pre-Cambrian Bedrock we call Mont Tremblant, chilled and well frozen by
months of very cold, and even when the daytime highs get near or into the
plus range, Mont Tremblant's ambiant cold storage radiates the cold back out
and a boundary layer of cold air convection washes down over all it's surfaces.
This works as long as any "warm" from either wind or solar, is less dominant,
but the shift in balance can be very subtle and there may be a lot of "tipping
points" along the way.
As you can imagine, there will be differences created by "South" exposures,
or "North" protections, that occur naturally with the "lay of the land" and the
shade/shelter from either Solar or Wind that are created.
All these factors combine in endlessly variable daily patterns of surface
conditions and what we call "Sweet Spots" around Tremblant, and they are the
main reason we encourage "Exploration", with proviso's of care, control
and safety, each and every day.
While it's both impressive and awesome to enjoy Tremblant's
fantastic panorama's, we find that there's also tremendous
beauty in the Macro vision detail, where Mother Nature's hand
shows some of the most delicate artistry we ever seen.
The two pictures following are 3 weeks apart, from the end of January,
until now. The reason we've added them here is all about "Consistent",
"Sustained", "Durability", "Undisturbed" and "Preservation" of the full
winter surface conditions. The point is, the absolutely gorgeous fullness
of winter is still here, as it has been for many weeks.
Three Weeks Ago...
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you not only get to see these scenes, you get to
Ski and Board on the part that made it to the ground!
We've got a fabulous run going on winter here...
An excellent season for all day, every day, quality.
95(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable,
PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
- Screenshot of the Official, Downloadable,
PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
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Terrain Anywhere...
Tremblant Has You Covered At All Levels.
Links:
http://www.tremblant.ca
http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-e.htm
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Understanding Trail Counts - http://alturl.com/n54py http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/trailmap-e.htm
http://www.tremblant.ca/galleries/webcams/index-e.htm
http://translate.google.com/translate_t ... =fr&tl=en#
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAQC0360
Forum Index: http://alturl.com/r4cco
Bring Back The Memories... 
Research Future Visits... If you would like to look up dates you visited Tremblant, or you
want to research days/weeks/months to visit, you can sample what
they look like historically, month by month, year by year.
GoTo: Archive, Search Reports by Date: Index: http://tinyurl.com/yktelmu
When reviewing dates from any of the past, numbered, archived pages,
you can use the "Previous Topic" or "Next Topic" buttons, located
screen far right, in upper date/message bar to scroll through sequential
dates, or use your browsers "back" button to stay on the selected index
page for non-sequential date reviews in either forward or reverse order.
There are approximately 6, 25 day Index pages per season.
( If You
"Bookmark" the link above, it will always take you to theFirst index page with the latest posts. That gives you an immediate,
current to 25 day past, review scroll of Winter Alpine Conditions by
consecutive date.)
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