T360 Middle Of The Night Shift Apres Ski.... @ 3:23 A.M.
Snowing Hard At Last Run and Into the Eve.
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Great Shredding Performance on Duncan!
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As annotated within Graphic.
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A Bit Of A Wild Card for the A.M., Stay Tuned!
-------------------------- 6:29 A.M. Orig. Post --------------------
96(*) Open Trails on the 4 Pure Winter(**) Snow White Slopes of #Tremblant.
Easy For Everyone.
Experts With Decades Of Tremblant Experience Enjoy Last Run On
The Close To Flawless Carving Over Soleil Sector “Green” Trail, Algonquin.
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Below:
This is a higher elevation shot from a sequence we took from the Gondola
yesterday afternoon. We ran the first one in last nights Apres Ski. This one
includes Upper McCulloch, #18, as it crosses underneath the Gondola and
just below the Summit. The Trail under, and parallel to the distant down-slope
Gondola cars/cable is #22, Kandahar.
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During the course of the day, the snowflake size was highly variable over
different elevations, but for the most part was a fine, as in small, more
crystalline particle. You see it here as more of a “Filter-Like” effect on
sharpness and colour intensity, as opposed to big fat flakes that can look
like white globs in the cameras depth of field. The “Filter-Like” effect is
most apparent over the Black and other dark elements of this pic. below.
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In The Air...(above) Or On The Ground....(below)
The vast majority of the new snow is this cold-formed fine sized, crystalline particle
that is very dry and very shred-able. If you look at the left Ski below, just in front
of the binding, and on the inside edge, you will see how the sharp Ski edge drawn
laterally towards the centre of the frame has created a curl of snow. This is one of
the most ultimate “Shred” Characteristics. The Snow particles can be sheered away
from one another in layers about as thin as Onion Skin. That “Shred-Able” performance
at Descent Speeds, transforms to absolute High Traction as you can reliably apply
all the turning force you can through the Edges of your skis to generate what we
would estimate would be over 1G of Lateral Energy through sequential turn
executions. Amazingly, this apparent 1G of Lateral Force can be generated on
an empty Green rated trail where the safe space and speed can be applied to
Short Radius Slalom Carving Technique, so in 12 Metre Radii, it’s not all that fast,
but it is just fast enough(^^). The Exercise Value is profound and if you attempt to do
200 High Energy Slalom Carves down Algonquin without stopping, you will have
Quads of Jello at the bottom. The “Average” skier could not do it. Training for
power and endurance in this manner is better than any Gym on the Planet.
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(^^) We do not recommend Pro GS Carving Speeds on Publicly Open Groomed
Trails At Tremblant due to average Traffic and Trail Dimensions that make it generally
unsafe at ANY Ski Resort. For Optimal Safety, Genuine GS Carving Speeds require Race
Course Controlled Access and Participant Safety Catchment Barrier Specifications.
Relaxed Recreational Cruising GS Style Speeds are fine. The critical difference is
Immediate Stopping, Accident Avoidance Capability. Basically, you need to be able to
do an Emergency Stop in as close as possible to about 5 metres... or less.
Weather Notes:
Part 1)
Bundle Up Advisory Due To Wind Velocity Factor.
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Part 2)
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96(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 7th, 2017, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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(**) Pure Winter as defined as Multiple, Consecutive/Sequential, Sustained 24hr. Periods
of Uninterrupted Sub-Zero C Temperatures. Specifically applied to Skiing at Tremblant, it
refers to Grooming Operations that are all refinements of these stable Sub-Zero C’s, and
do not include any recovery effort for Thermally Induced, i.e., “Above-Zero C”, “Icy”
Components.
Please Note: Middle Of The Night Shift Mt. Op’s Observations Attached below.
In an abundance of caution Mountain Crews have un-cabled the Gondola Cars
into the Base Storage Garage to prevent potential complications from Freezing Rain
that include excessive frozen water weight @ 10lbs per Gallon and startup delays
due to thick cable covered in thick ice.
In this case, it may not have been necessary, but if the freezing rain had occurred
in a great amount, this strategy can save hours of labour and delays. This is always
a good and safe call.
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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 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.
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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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