55(*) Open Trails on All 4 Sides Of Tremblant's Warmer, White Slopes.
Today will be the first day of Post-Freezing Rain Recovery, so you can
expect some adaptive technique will be needed to handle everything
from Icy to Machine Generated Granular to All Natural…
….and everything in-between.
There will be Great Skiing and Boarding within the Open Terrain and
careful exploration will reveal exactly where the sweetest lines are for
your Skill Level. Absolute Speed Control… is what you need to have
before you go ripping around. Assuming conditions are going to be
the same around the next bend or over the next crest, is inappropriate
when there are so many variables.
That will be a prime directive for the next few days until either a lot more
Natural Snow falls, or, until Mountain Crews can restore surfaces acre, by acre.
To appreciate how quickly Today's surfaces are already recovering...
Yesterday was the kind of day that most Skiers/Boarders look out the
window at, then turn on the T.V.
For Those Brave Souls Who Persisted….
Basically, Yesterday's warm wet weather turned into
a lot of warm snowfall after lunch and saved the day!
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We’ve had great conditions all season long with primarily Cold Formed
Dry Winter Snow that makes lousy Snowballs because they just fall
apart, but Yesterday’s was the complete opposite. Big, fat, heavy, moist
Spring-like Snow fell hard and fast. This stuff packs very easily into
Ballistic Snowball Quality suitable for Excellent Snowball Target Practice!
No doubt, the Freezing Rain was a Big Pain, just as much of a Big Pain as the
Gale Force Winds that caused Lift Closures. The combination, which statistically,
happens once or twice a season or two, forces both Lift and Trail Closures,
sometimes dramatically, as in 92 Open Trails down to 4 for a few hours.
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Nothing you can do. It can and does happen at every Ski Area on the Planet.
Mother Nature Plays Her Own Trump Cards As She Sees Fit!
The Amazing part was the almost unbelievable Speed that the Snowfall
began to accumulate. it seemed like within a handful of runs all of a sudden
“Icy” near vanished!
The beneficial Surface quality factor was the Moisture in the warmer Snow.
This Moisture which makes it such superb Snowball Snow, facilitated an
adhesive bond to the icy substrate, almost instantly.
You could feel icy underfoot as it accumulated, but on a run by run diminishing
scale until by 2:30 or so...
Sweet Little Powder Lines on Sissy Schuss, Beauchemin and P’tit Bonheur!
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Conditions Notes:
Please Note: Review trail status icons/legend in graphic below
for individual trail detail.
55(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for February 21st, 2014,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
- Archival Copy of Official Open Trails, Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for February 22nd, 2014, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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You can NEVER rule out the possibilities and/or Potential of
good Ski/Board conditions even on days that seem marginal.
You may think of it as a “Leap Of Faith”, but experience shows
that the multi-sided nature of Tremblant’s vast geographic footprint
somehow always comes through with sectors of good conditions
that benefit those that explore to find them.
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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