T360 Early Apres Ski Edit, started @ 6:58 P. M.
...with posted “After” shot, inserted below, to compare
to yesterdays “Before” to visualize the difference the
very large overnight snowfall makes to the same POV.
There’s TONS of new snow, but it’s very thick and
prone to mogul formations.
Below: Here is a preview/alternate POV of the “After”
posted below, but from a laterally parallel line, just
inside the tree lined edge of Le Tunnel. In this particular
spot, the trail-side drifting is over 50cm’s in places.
“After”:
(Scroll down to orig. post below for “Before” and another insert “After")
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At an official 29cm’s, and still falling... right now, there’s
just too much air trapped in its depth, but...
It will make a superlative top layer component of the base
when optimized density is achieved by between 2 and 4(?)
Grooming cycles. In the mean-time due to the very high “Loft”
of its airy looseness, it seems to be retaining some spongy
characteristics beyond last nights initial grooming. (See Below)
Below: Some end-of-day Corduroy pic’s on that to make the point
about the softness. We are almost always the last ones off the
Mountain, mostly because it’s a good way to get photos without
crowds. Sometimes, by the time we’re working down, Crews have already
started traversing the terrain with Grooming Machines, so, what you’re
seeing here is a fresh, single pass Grooming line over the new snow,
where the weight of a ski is sufficient to sink into the surface. With
the weight of a human being added on top of Skis or Board, they can
punch through the groomed surface vey easily on every turn, so initially
the single pass is great, but it won’t be long before multiple Skiers will
generate moguls here.
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Overall, these conditions favour Experts. Until grooming gets
more density, it’s a very rare day when Nansen Haut,
Upper, is a “Mogul Run” for the afternoon... so it’s fair to say
that tomorrows “User Friendly”, may be a direct function of
tonights Grooming night-shift.
Below is a super-long, slightly fuzzy, telephoto through snowfall
filters up Johannsen from the Resort Base showing the softness
of the thick, loose, new snow.
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Local Experts know exactly where to go to
maximize Powder fun and the shot below is
a prime example. “Air Time” off the soft ramps
of bush contours in the Open Glades of the
“Le Tunnel” sector get you all the thrills you can
handle!
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If you’ve been out all day, it’s actually a very good way
to work into new skills with gradually increasing depths.
The shallow moguls you can see below have been building
over time, along with the new snow, so lapping here
as a Beginner or Intermediate as conditions evolve allow
you to safely adapt run by run. This adaptation is optimized
if you have either a formal lesson or Expert friend to demonstrate
the most effective techniques for navigating accumulating snow depths.
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...and, it was still snowing like “Crazy” on Versant Nord, North Side
@ Last Run.
Very Important Repeat From Orig. Post:
Conditions Caveat:
As wonderful as any “Powder Day” is for genuine Experts,
abundant, thick, and continuously thickly falling snow, can
create challenge that is not easy for Beginners and Intermediates
when the surfaces may become tracked up, or have variable
depths and rates of forward resistance that are unpredictable.
For Genuine Beginners... We can only hope you have responsible
friends or instructors to guide you onto the Green trails like “Nansen”,
or “P’tit Bonheur”, where you should focus completely on absolute
speed control.
For Genuine Intermediates... Default Down At Least One Level
In Terrain Choice, Until You Verify Safe Navigational Capability
In The Depths/Thickness You Encounter.
For All... GO SLOW, especially over crests and onto
pitches that may have highly variable conditions
generated by wind exposures and/or mogul formations.
Tomorrow should see a noticeable increase in compacted
surface density, although it could still be highly variable
for at least another day.
All Tremblant Guests need to be patient while Mountain
Crews work around the clock to process what we think is
so-far, the single largest snowfall event of the season.
---------------------- 6:53 A.M. Orig. Post. --------------------
97(*) Open Trails on the Blizzard-Like, Snowstorm Refreshed Slopes of #Tremblant .
(We say Blizzard-Like because by strict definition the winds were not
in excess of 40KMPH, however, we tend to think of hours and hours
of dense snowfall where you often can’t see more than a few metres,
as a Blizzard anyway.)
The Official Snowfall Total, So-Far, Is 29cm’s Overnight,
And @ 6:53 A.M., It’s Still Snowing Like “Crazy”!
For our American Cousins... that’s a foot of snow in 12 hours.
However, no matter what scale you measure with...
It All Adds Up To A “Powder Day” !!!
In order to make this report relevant to this specific weather event
we need a Pre-event starting point, so...
We’re Going To Call This One “Before”...
(you’ll have to come back here Apres Ski for “After”.
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Typically, the wind induced Drifting factor can produce topographical
contour shaping of snow deposits that may be double, or more, than
whatever the “Official” total eventually records. Our sample “Before”
location above is Versant Nord, North Side Trail #66 “Le Tunnel”,
and it may or may not benefit from excess drifting, but we think
it’s a good candidate based on previous events of similar weather
factors. Time will tell!
Anyone who’s been a reader here for previous Blizzard/Snowstorm
events is going to already understand that the real potential for
a genuine Powder Day is the “Drifting” factor. We hope to illustrate
that point by adding the “After”, to the above “Before” by about
18:00hrs/6:00 P.M., Apres Ski, right here, tonight.
.......................................
Page Space Reserved For “After”, to be inserted here.
“After”, Posted @ 18:58, 6:58 P.M.
Due to the fact that this location is at the top crest
of Le Tunnel, there is some evidence of wind effects,
however it is quite clear that there is a lot more snow
today. We would estimate the snow deposits vary over
the topographical contours of the run at between 25 and
50 cm’s, so very nicely, and obviously, filled in.
Time here @ 14:30 P.M., and quite well skied out
by this time, but still showing the massive addition,
especially where you can see it on the sides.
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In Todays Specific Case:
The basic starting point for all the wonderful conditions
and surprising discoveries of all those potentially HUGE
drift lines we expect to play with during the next 2 to 5
days, is the pre-existing, "Groomed As Flat As A Sheet
Of Plywood”, entire array of machine prepared surfaces
across all skill level rated terrain, over the Mountains
whole four-sided footprint. The above Le Tunnel “Before”
pic., is a prime example of that groomed foundation.
PLUS... the obvious, immediate benefit of a foot of powder
to the Sous Bois, Glades, Hors Piste, and Un-Groomed, where
the “Drifting” factor is going to really make some major
contributions that we suspect could generate topographical
Lee-side snow deposits of between “Knee” and “Waist” depths.
Conditions Caveat:
As wonderful as any “Powder Day” is for genuine Experts,
abundant, thick, and continuously thickly falling snow, can
create challenge that is not easy for Beginners and Intermediates
when the surfaces may become tracked up, or have variable
depths and rates of forward resistance that are all unpredictable.
For Genuine Beginners... We can only hope you have responsible
friends or instructors to guide you onto the Green trails like “Nansen”,
or “P’tit Bonheur”, where you should focus completely on absolute
speed control.
For Genuine Intermediates... Default Down At Least One Level
In Terrain Choice, Until You Verify Safe Navigational Capability
In The Depths/Thickness You Encounter.
For All... GO SLOW, especially over crests and onto
pitches that may have highly variable conditions
generated by wind exposures and/or mogul formations.
Weather Notes:
As an added BONUS... It’s relatively “Warm” out!
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Conditions Notes:
A Theoretical Reason The Mountain Is Not 100% Open Is:
The wind may have prevented straight down accumulations
over pre-existing hazards on the very steep trails that are
not open.
The same wind that can cause the very favourable drifting,
can also keep snow from accumulating on some wide,
or unsheltered steep trails, so please respect all Ski Patrol
rope closed or hand posted signage that indicate local
advisories for any special storm-related anomalies.
Otherwise... Experts Go Wild!
97(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 13, 2019, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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Essentially, all the pre-existing base conditions
are now the starting point for this significant
Winter, Version 2.0, Re-Boot, so if you’re far
away, anticipating your Tremblant Ski Holiday,
you have every good reason to enthusiastically
look forward to it.
If you are a Regional Tremblant Fan, you should
be pulling into the Resort right now...
Due to the immense differences between
yesterday and today, the real value of this
entry is going to be at Apres Ski, so we
are going to wind this portion up now and
head out. It is our intention to have an early
edition Apres Ski added to this page before
19:00hrs/7:00 P.M.
Links and not-so-fine print:
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http://www.tremblant.ca/galleries/webcams/index-e.htm
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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.
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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
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