A Gorgeous, Sunny, Tremblant Winter Day!
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and with improved depth of carve-able top layers.
This applies to all Skill Levels of Open Terrain within
the regularly Groomed array. It is important to note
that Experts Only Trails that are not groomed can have
some naturally occurring glitches, but appropriate, cautious
speed when exploring will allow avoidance quite easily.
The level of density below the top layers is still very firm,
so where traffic can move off loose snow, those firm
substrates can be exposed. In our experience, there
is nothing within the given Green, Blue, Black Skill Ratings
that those corresponding skills could not easily handle.
The vast majority of surfaces can support enthusiastic
performance and the single most dominant quality is
Smoothness.
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light, Southerly winds, so a quite easy, early Spring Ski Day.
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87(*) Open Trails on the Final Frosty Morning(?) at #Tremblant.
One of these days, maybe today, will be the last Super-Cool
Winter Morning. As sure as the Earth Rotates... we get to Spring,
and the inevitable increase in overall thermal energy.
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however it appears by the current Weather Forecast models, that
this might well be the tipping point for the trends to reverse towards
warmer.
A review of today’s By-The-Hour forecast shows a very quick rise to -1C,
so with a 21 degree C increase, there will be a huge, and rapid change to
the character of the day.
Conditions Notes:
Yesterdays surfaces where, for the most part, very densely packed snow.
Considering all the up’s and down’s in the recent Thermal Roller-Coaster
Graph, that is a wonderful final result when those kinds of swings could
have made more in the way of Icy bits. The overall smoothness is also a
big asset across all Groomed, Skill Levels Terrain, but there’s no doubt
tuned gear is essential for optimal performance and safety with such tight
surfaces.
The benefit is an Open Trail Count floating around either side of 90, and
seeing as how we are just about to start the final week of March, that’s a
great number to have access to.
As general reference, we expect today to have the improvements in both
the depth and dimensional coverage of looser Groomed top layers that last
nights work by Mountain Op’s usually accomplishes with every passing cycle.
Weather Notes:
The overall Forecast elements continue to reflect
below average daytime temp’s for the two week outlook.
They certainly have been right so far.
As far as the Overnight Low temps, they are showing at
slightly above averages, but is it just us???... it seems
as though they have been quite cool too. If you look
closely at the Zero C mark, at least they’re still forecasted at
below freezing, so we like that in Spring because of the endurance
it provides for the Base.
Additionally, at the low, single digit values indicated for days
with rainy icons, at normally cooler by -4C Mountain Elevations,
there is some probability that precipitation could be all snow.
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Much of the Firmness of yesterday has been converted to Softness
in Groomed Top Layers. Speed and Control at substantially higher
levels of Confidence throughout All Skill Level Terrain.
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87(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for March 23rd, 2017, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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A Note Of Caution For Regional Drivers:
We witnessed a Highway-Speed Accident between a Car
and a Deer last night at 9:30 P.M.. There were no winners.
The car had passed us and two others in front less than 3 minutes
prior, and was already close to 500 metres ahead. We estimate it
passed us at close to 20KMPH over the Speed Limit as it pulled away.
The Deer jumped the snowbank and into the direct path of the car.
In a Nano-Second it was all terribly messy. Even from a distance, we
could see airborne body bits, skidding, screeching tires, as the car went
off-the-road sideways. The two cars immediately following ran through
the debris and pulled off. We had to swerve to miss some very ugly and
large bits of scattered, steamy, organic material. Considering there was
no other traffic, and already two cars had stopped, we kept on going.
The point is, Speeding at night greatly reduces your response rate with
Deer and it is a big/main reason to never try to make up time by speeding
if running behind. Any review of the pages in this archive will show multiple
references to conservative travel speeds with Deer roaming the roadsides.
Even then, with relative slower speeds, Deer make for frequent close calls.
“Close Calls” can turn into “Game Over” with excessive speed folks...
A Word To The Wise...
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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.
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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
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