(Our apologies for late report this A.M., it's "Logistical Support Day",
i.e., Chores First.)
We think we understand why the Trail Count is down this morning and
it's not because the Ski/Board Terrain has physically reduced covered
square area.
We think it's because the Snowmaking in certain sectors is so intense
that safe passage there is not practical due to limited vision restrictions.
For Specific Yesterday/Today Example:
Below: Trail #68, Rope Tow, Lowell Thomas Summit Sector.
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not only the virtually non-existent forward vision, but such dense
Snowmaking would also instantly coat goggle lenses and/or be
just about impossible to go through with naked eyes.
So, because the entire Summit Sector of Lowell Thomas is under direct
Snowmaking, not only are they off-line, but so are downstream Rigodon
and La Traverse, making the total of 4 runs off-line yesterdays 13 = todays 9.
Snowmaking is also taking on another primary focus over the next few days
as Mountain Crews prepare the sectors that the 24Hour Children’s Charity
Fundraiser will take place on, the weekend of December 6th & 7th.
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24Hr. Event Prep. Besides the Benefit to the Kids, this Terrain development
always accelerates the scope and quality of Tremblant’s Pre-Christmas
Trail Openings.
New Nord, North Terrain on the Jasey.J/Superieur Sector is very close to
final stages of refinement. It is even possible we may see that for the weekend???
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the week before the 24Hr. Event so Folks that are not involved with the Event
can still get out for days of Great Skiing/Boarding while the Event utilizes
so much of the South Side Main Slopes.
Otherwise, Conditions today are generally a mix of very firm and solid substrates,
with top layers of largely fine Snow that in some places is mixed with chunky
bits that were made by Grooming Machines loosening up the most solid
zones after Warm, Wet, weather earlier in the week.
With incremental improvements from every night’s continued Grooming, as well
as Tremblant Mountain Guest Traffic, the size of the chunky bits gets reduced,
literally, where exposed to a lot of traffic, by the hour.
We ran this Snowboard Pic over Beauvallon’s Summit Crest in last nights Apres Ski
and we’re including it here again, along with a supplementary detail shot, to make
a point about “Largely Fine Snow” as we said 2 paragraphs up.
First, the repeat shot:
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Secondly, the Supplementary shot:
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the Snowboarders lower half. The “Fine Snow” we talked about being the largest
part of the surfaces is captured in the air as it is whipped up by the person
traveling over it.
We can tell you for a fact, that if you have tuned gear including recent, fresh
or sharp edges, you can carve very aggressively on this in most of the Open
Terrain.
Tremblant is in superb, early season training condition, the best ever for this date.
South, North, it matters not. Exceptional Late November Conditions
are a Gift to Ski Board enthusiasts who’ve been waiting for the season to
open for months!
When it comes to Learning, we’d far rather have things a bit on the Firm side
as opposed to the Soft side as edge control is more predicable. Too-Soft can
frequently mean catching an edge or ruts that may be difficult to navigate.
Tremblant Makes You Look Good.
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The opportunity to take lessons early in the season makes for very efficient
use of both time and available open terrain because beginners don’t yet
need the full range of Mountain Terrain. It also allows developing technique
the advantage of many upcoming months of potential practice time. There’s never
a bad time to learn, however there are definite advantages to early seasonal
learning if it’s possible to support that with additional time on the slopes during
the balance of the season to work on what you’ve accomplished now.
Today Weather Notes:
It may break Zero C at the South Resort Base Level, however, the Mountain
should stay nicely below that to hold those Winter-Like surface conditions.
The sun should be around, although its view may be framed by clouds.
All in all, another very fine late fall day with conditions weeks ahead of
schedule.
9(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for November 27, 2014,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
Scroll ----->>> for complete data display.
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The main Routes are working very well and you can get very serious Vertical
by lapping either South or North, however the North holds a slight advantage
because you do not have to stop and remove skis and traverse(for TGV Detour),
to return to the Summit.
We hope to have an Apres Ski Pic. Feature on some of the additional Terrain
development later on this eve. Is there a possibility some of it will be Open
for the Weekend? A definite “Maybe”???
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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