Tremblant Is Just Fine, Thank You Very Much!
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we'd be overjoyed to have this base, on this date.
The Base at Tremblant has survived the recent Heat and Rain and
come out as a very solid component for the days of near future
restoration and rebuilding.
In some ways, it's better than we thought it might be!
Apres Ski Attached below in "Reply"...
under construction at 7:30 P.M.
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44(*) Open Trails on 3 sides of Tremblant as Soleil Sector
has been taken off-line.
We're not sure exactly when, but we tried to hit Soleil for last run
yesterday, just to see how it was baring up under the weather,
and it was closed, so not surprised to see this change this morning.
Yesterday we also said "Not A Damn Thing We Can Do About The Weather..."
Mountain Crews on the other hand, make every attempt to do something with
the weather and in this case, we think there's a high degree of probability that
Trail Closures are to protect the "Base" asset, and save it for the expeditious
restoration that will come with the dropping temps tonight.
One of the single largest identifiable groups out at Tremblant yesterday
were Instructors from Tremblant's renowned "Ecole Sur Neige" Ski/Board
School and they were talking advantage of the great surfaces to develop
technique. We saw a chain of a dozen or so on Lower Expo at one point,
all doing turns in unison and looking very fine. The camera was buried
under layers so was unable to deploy in time to capture that, but here are
some riding back up the Expo Quad as a token of...
"When the going gets tough, the tough, go out and have fun anyway",
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in last night's Apres Ski, the surface conditions were virtually seamless,
fast and extremely user friendly.
Speaking of "User Friendly", here is a small(because of obvious "wet Lens"
challenges) pictorial of a Tremblant Fan Favourite of many, Versant Nord,
"La Griffe"
La Griffe was wall to wall very soft and fine with almost zero glitches
and a smooth carve-able surface.
Despite "Damp", this first one is not a special effect, the rain just happened
to be facing the lens at this moment...
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were no surprises there, just turn after turn of very stable spring-like skiing
but without any of the deep softness that normally comes with spring
conditions. Once again, the deep frost in the Mountain was working from
the bottom up to keep the trail substrates in great shape, so the the surface
was soft, but not to any significant depth beyond smooth, excellent carving grip.
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with none of the slush. Carve on it, Parallel Turn on it, snowplow on it,
go anywhere, "Do Anything Snow".
We have quite a few pic's but many were obscured by damp lens syndrome,
so this last one we're adding for La Griffe is taken standing at the 90 Degree
right hand turn mid-La Griffe where it's very plain to see that the "Wall to Wall"
coverage is complete.
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surfaces extended to all sectors of the open, groomed terrain
we skied at Tremblant yesterday, not merely La Griffe, and that
should continue for today.
Todays Weather ....
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44(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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can change a negative to a positive.
The Descente Poncho is one of them....
Here is our Vision solution to near freezing, almost warm,
grey, flat dull light days...
Common Industrial Yellow Lens Safety Glasses.
Found on sale at the local Industrial Supply Store for $4.00 buck's...
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and brightness lacking in very flat grey ambient light.
For Example....
Moguls that were cleverly camouflaged by dull no-detail light
and grab you by the ankles and can toss you head over heels,
suddenly jump out with almost natural daylight detail.
No Kidding. These work and because it's already warm out, they
are very comfortable, do not fog up inside like sealed goggles can
and they restore useable detail in your sight lines for safety, control
and fun. These are a "No Brainer" for flat dull grey light situations.
If you don't have 'em, go get some before you arrive,
just in case.
Practical, very inexpensive things like this can change your whole
day for the better.
Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the World Wide Scout Movement
said it best... "Be Prepared".... it's the key to having a ton of fun
at Tremblant, in any weather.
Links and not-so-fine print:
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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