1/19/14 #Tremblant Conditions

T360 · Post by **T360** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:41 am

T360 Apres Ski Intro. @ 7:30 P.M.

Perhaps you’re sitting in some Fashionable District of London, like, say…
Notting Hill, maybe you’re relaxing in front of the fire in your Upper East Side
Manhattan Pent-House, maybe you’re all comfy at home in one of those
fancy little Neighbourhoods off of Avenue Road in Toronto….

No Matter, if you weren’t at Tremblant Today, you never had the
unmitigated Joy of this:

Tremblant360.com January 19Th, 2014 “PROOF OF SNOW”.

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As nice and as fancy as any of those Establishment Addresses might be,
nothing can match the sheer beauty of Mother Natures Interior Decorating
At Tremblant. These quiet Trail Side places are the reserved specialty for
Tremblant guests who are blessed with the great, good fortune of being
embraced by the truly unique solitude of such a fleeting moment.

The exquisite Snow in this scene above has been meticulously worked
into the base on the Open, Groomed Trails adjacent, and the Skiing is
commensurately Excellent.

We hope you get to be here soon.

Carve This:

All Natural Snow and Snow Fog make for Dull Photography,
but Fabulous High Performance Carving.

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Below:
These People can help you figure out what to do with all this Snow!

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Below:
Not Only Is This Snow The Basis OF Your Tremblant Alpine Sport,
but these views are the Framework of your entire experience.

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Tremblant: Extraordinarily Beautiful In Any Weather.

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T360 9:30 A.M. Update:

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GOOD THING IT’S A SKI RESORT!

-------------- 7:41 A.M. Orig. Post -------------

84(*) Open Trails on the 4 Sides of Tremblant.

It’s going to be another Easy Mid-January Day of
Very Fine Skiing and Boarding. Maybe not quite as bright
as yesterday, but with a DECREASING temp, forecast
to be -8 C, the Snow Surfaces should respond nicely by
being quicker, if anything.

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Yesterday was a big attendance day and Today may be similar.
Typically though, after lunch on many Sunday’s, the Montreal and
Ottawa crowds rapidly migrate towards the roads home and
before you know it…. especially on the North, the lift lines
vanish. This phenomenon can take place in as little as a half hour,
‘round about 2:00P.M.

Suddenly, it’s Versant Nord, North Side, Rapid Lapping!

It does not happen every Sunday, but enough of them that it
registers as a frequent behaviour pattern. We enjoy the
reduced traffic benefit of this exodus, and we wonder why
more don’t stick around, particularly when we hear
reports of traffic jams on the South Autoroute.

The Vast Majority(95%) Of Tremblant’s
Alpine Trail Descent’s Are Exactly Like This:

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Damn Near Perfect.

With one exception we look at below in Caveat….

Otherwise, there was actually enough Fresh Snow that a fair degree of Grip
could be generated in that layer alone.

Below is an example of that on Duncan, Running under it’s own Quad,
at the Devils River Entrance.

Please Note: this pic was taken at Last Run.
There are very long shadows here that make very flat light
conditions, so in order to default to Snow Characteristics,
the pic has been edited with heavy Highlights, Contrast,
Definition and Sharpness to compensate. The result may
appear to be sort of a “Halo” around the Skier. The Surface
may look chunky, but it is actually just soft ridge buildup
of Natural Snow as Traffic moves it around.

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A second example of the Fresh Snow, but displayed here in more linear
tracks, and with different lighting….

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Moving Stop-Action Photography is challenging with a
low ISO and long Shutter, but were trying for the Sunset
Element as a feature.

Bottom Line on Conditions…

Very Fine Winter Snow…

With A Lot More In The Forecast !!!

84(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for January 19th, 2014,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca

scroll------->>>> for complete data display.

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------ Conditions Caveat: ------------

Due to the closeness of the ambient temps to the freezing mark,
there were some Icy zones created in the Soleil Runout's to that
Sector’s Quad Chair Lift Yesterday.

Sort-of-like a mini glacier, considerable square area began to take on
rather “Flow-Like” characteristics. A variety of signs were posted at the
Summit to alert those headed in that direction. See Below:

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We will endeavour to go there and review that this morning, but we think there’s
a good chance that if it firmed up after Sunset, it may have been ground
up by Mountain Grooming Crews during last nights shift.

If so, that may render it fine enough this morning, however, Traffic
could eventually expose some potentially icy lower substrates.

There may be other Surface Anomalies, Explore Carefully.

--------------- End Of Caveat ---------------------

Then There Was This...

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We have a series of this fire incident that we will post separately in
Tremblant Geographic.

Back to Now…

It’s Snowing Again.

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