After a long absence from this board we’re blown away by the number
of page views here after the Summer. Thanks ever-so-much for taking
any of your time to visit and review the content herein!
Evidently there’s lots of interest in Tremblant specific research so we just
want to briefly touch on a couple of key points.
#1) One of the principle values of this date indexed archive is to have access
to the same dates over any number of years so that you can see a typical range
of conditions that might occur for any prospective visits to Tremblant.
From the main "Mountain Reports. #Tremblant Ski Snowboard Conditions"
Index Page(click on that above to goto)...
...Every season takes up about 6 pages, so if you’re thinking about maybe the
last week in January or the 3rd week in February, just for examples, locating
the time you’re interested in for each seasons records can be super-easily
gotten to by simply going to the page numbers back 6 X 6 X 6 X 6 .... etc., etc.,
from when-ever you want to start from.
#2) If you just want to look at Pictures that illustrate Tremblant’s full winter
maturity, we recommend you scroll back to somewhere around mid-January,
or mid-February and use the “Next Topic” button on the upper right page
corner to scroll through a few days to get a sense of how it looks.
It’s definitely time to think about Skiing/Snowboarding again, so with that in mind,
here’s an early season Teaser Pic...
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scroll on down to the rest of this page...
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55(*) Open Trails on South And North Sides of The Last Officially
Open Day, Winter Season 2013/14... At Warm, Spring Tremblant.
For This Winter Season…
There’s Only One Thing Left To Do At Tremblant…
Today.
There are many reasons for feelings of melancholy, sadness, and even
disbelief associated with the Last Day of the Season. Every year we
comment on similar sentiments and it never gets any easier to say
goodbye to the Fingerprint of each Winters Experience.
All we can do is to try to distract ourselves from the sense of
“Closing Day Sadness Syndrome” by focusing on Technique, so...
In the mean-time, feel free to tackle some steeper terrain today
with the added benefit of Higher Forward Resistance caused
by Moisture Saturated Snow. If you can set aside the realization
that it’s Closing Day, it’s still a full and complete day of Very Fine
Spring Ski/Board Conditions.
A Pure, All Day, Super Soft Spring Ski/Board Day. The highlight is
a remarkable coverage that comparatively(date) speaking, is
just recently beginning to show signs of Thermal Effects on the Alpine
Trail Base.
These conditions are truly a statistical anomaly of completeness.
Both coverage and depth are far beyond what would typically exist for
the 21st of April.
As long as you concentrate on the fundamentals of a tight,
feet together(or at least closer than the modern “Shoulder Width”
spacing) stance, in order to create a stable “platform” underfoot,
you can easily navigate Heavier Spring Snow and have Fun doing it!
Here’s a File.Pic we ran back on April 2nd that illustrates the
concept:
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as “Skidded Parallel Turns”, but it is an invaluable adaptation to
the “Stickiness” or even “Mushiness” that is the byproduct of
Too Much Heat.
When the Spring Corn Snow Surfaces get Thick, you need to slow
down, nail your feet together and almost Ski it like Powder.
A compact, well centred, low centre of gravity with a slight bias
towards sitting back over the tails of your Skis will allow you to
traverse Tracked, Irregular Surface Depths between Moguls and
any other natural contours to compensate for the sometimes
unpredictable braking effect that your Ski tips generate from
hitting thick bits.
Trying to maintain Carved Edges in Thicker Spring Snow can
be difficult due to uneven resistance between feet that can occur
when they are at typical Shoulder width Carving Stance.
Here’s an illustration of what happens when your stance is too wide
for the thickness and/or depth of very soft top layers…
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is obviously apparent and at the speed being traveled, is far too great to
compensate for, so...
Predictably, there was a fair size tumble immediately following
this moment. What surprises us from time to time, is the
“One Track Mindset” that some Skiers have when it comes
to attempting to apply the same technique in all conditions.
We are not Boarders, but we suspect that a similar degree of
rearward weight pressure bias on the Board might help there
too.
Here’s an illustration, actually from the same day as the Top Ski
Example above, that we think represents an Expert Level
execution of this point.
- www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.
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Conditions off a bouncing Chair Lift while using over 200 MM. of handheld
Telephoto, the Contrast, Saturation, Highlights, etc., are turned up, and
burned up to render Snow Surface Detail.)
The whole idea of the rearward Weight Bias, whether Skis or Board...
is two-fold.
1) To keep Tip Pressure as light as possible in order to be able to
Float tips up/over any full frontal direct impact/braking resistance as might
be encountered with Super Soft Snow Tracks/Sides of Moguls, or Soft Snow
build-up around Irregular Ground Contours in your descent path.
2) To allow for the momentary shift in balance compensation that is
necessary when ground level soft/built-up snow resistance/braking causes
unpredictable levels of Ski/Board deceleration at Boot/Ground Level,
but momentum acts to drive/continue the upper body forward at the
previous speed.
Please Note: Skiers: These two points are sequentially interconnected
and must be supported by an extended forward/upward hand position
that does not drop the wrist below Mid-Chest level at any time... in order
to facilitate continuous, forward moving, dynamic balance.
Moving on...
Weather/Condition Notes:
The Extraordinary Depth of the Frost into the Mountain this
season continues to support a far more complete coverage
than we would ever expect at this time.
Theoretically, if you were to Hike on the Mountain regularly over the
next several weeks, we think you would find very nicely Skiable
upper North side Terrain well towards this time in May.
More Specifically For Today...
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Ski/Board Utility Note:
Spring Skiing/Boarding means descending over receding Surfaces
caused by melting Snow that contains an increasing level of debris
on the very top layer. This very gradual accumulation of Non-Snow
material is largely very fine particulate from Trees shedding needles,
leaves and bark. It gets ground up by traffic, but it does not melt,
so it ends up getting denser and denser as the Snow diminishes
underneath it.
The Point is... that this debris gets driven into the minute pores of the
bases of your Skis and Boards and your mission, Apres Ski, is to at
some very near time, to wash the bases of your Skis/Board with a
warm, mild, soapy solution and a gentle brush, moving from front to
back, to evacuate and clean the base material before you back off the
binding tension and store your gear for summer. Use a clean soft towel
to dry the Skis/Board off immediately after cleaning. An Application of
base wax is considered ideal by many at this stage too.
Additional Ski/Board Utility Note:
NEVER store your Skis/Board in your Garage/Basement with any part of
them resting on or near a concrete floor surface.
“Sweat” created by warm moist air condensing over a Cool Concrete
surface will induce potentially Structurally damaging RUST formation
between the metal edges and the extruded P-Tex Base that can penetrate
into the inner layers of the base causing delamination that may not be
repairable.
Ski/Boards should always be stored in a dry, well ventilated area,
elevated off the floor level with the tension backed off the binding
springs, and... so the Skis/Boards are not “Clamped” or in anyway flattened
together that will stress the natural camber.
55(*) open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for April 21st, 2014,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
scroll ----->>> for complete data display
- Archival Copy of Official Open Trails, Grooming, Snowmaking and Lift Status for April 21st, 2014, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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Our Thanks To Tremblant Mountain Crews who worked
Every Night Shift and endured some of the Coldest Weather
in Decades to provide all Tremblant Guests with Immaculately
Prepared Morning Surfaces.
Honest-to-Goodness… being outdoors during the peak cold
of the depths of this Winter that Rocked Eastern North America
with record setting “Cool” was a tremendous challenge during
Daytime Hours… so working through the night-time lows would
have been very taxing for both Man and Machine.
Congratulations to all those responsible for delivering day after day,
all season consistency!
So Then(A rhetorical question)…
Where are we supposed to go from here?
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Hey! Check This Out!!!
New Tremblant360 Summer Ski School Now In Session !!!
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Just Kidding???… Sure…
…but it does highlight the comments we occasionally make about:
“Ski Training/Lapping At Tremblant, Better Than Any Gym On The Planet”…
we don’t have much choice now…. if you want to keep that
Quad Muscle, if you want to maintain that “Core” Strength…
we’ll be seeing each other at the Gym now, for sure…
It’s Officially Gym time, for leg presses, shoulder presses, curls, squats and
bench presses… Got Muscle? Got Ski Skills!
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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