Official Snow Report, which at this point is
today's preview, posted yesterday afternoon.
Daytime High temps @+7C, light S/E breeze up Duncan... too easy.
Launch Into Spring At Tremblant!
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trail descending from the top of the Expo Quad to Duncan, was
eventually turned into "Mashed Potatoes" over a softly layered
base that was super easy to turn in with almost any technique.
Riding up the Duncan Quad, a Skier passes underneath at Vanier.
You can see the loose, soft top layer in motion, screen lower right,
as this Skier does a Parallel turn through it
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no problem, and finally "Snow Plow" based stepping turns were
no problem. The softest top layer is quite thin because the frost
in the sub-layers and the Mountain itself is way too fresh and recent
to be giving up any depth of "Thaw" yet.
This makes these conditions very "forgiving" to all Mountain users,
regardless of Skill Level because the shallow layer of soft does not
allow your Skis or board to become "buried" in thick wet snow and
consequently, control inputs are very easy to execute.
At first we thought this pic above was not worth keeping, but after
thoughtful review, we realized it actually summarizes a lot about
the early Spring conditions at Tremblant.... Great!
Even though the Sun had softened up Soliel quite a bit, Toboggan
proved to be it's usual fun self. With properly prepared base coatings/wax
for "warm" it was even more fun and we were able to traverse most
of the stickier sections without much loss of speed.
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of snow sitting there. These lump's of snow could be found in many places,
especially on the North, and what they were are the huge amounts of
congealed snow that were weighing down all the tree boughs 4 days ago
that due to warmth, wind and gravity, have literally fallen of the trees
and rolled onto Trail surfaces.
There is a LOT of snow on the ground at Tremblant, despite the recent
warming trend, and the base has been generally quite well retained due
to all the frost still in the sub-layers and bedrock beneath. This underlaying
ambient "Cold Storage" is what is going to help ensure the durability of
the remaining weeks of this remarkably fine season.
We think this may be the best way to illustrate the current situation.
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that 4 days ago were weighed down, bent over and buried under snow.
The uninsulated tree boughs are the first things to show signs of "heat",
there's nothing there to keep warm air from coming at them from every
angle, but in the mean-time, on the ground, the accumulated seasonal
depth has all the built-in help of the frost below to retain it. While Ski poles
are very crude measuring devices, it's non-the-less easy to tell that there's
still lots of snow.
There's still lots of potential Snow Weather yet to come, so we can
reasonably expect to see scenes like this one below again, maybe
several times before Spring takes a permanent hold.
Macro Tree Snow From Yesterday Afternoon.
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PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
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Brought to you by the combined efforts of
Mother Nature, and Tremblant Mountain Crews!
Bravo!!!
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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 index pages,
you can use the "Previous Topic" or "Next Topic" buttons, located
screen far right, in upper date/message bar to scroll through sequential
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