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Today We Got The First Snowfall Instalment
Of The Current Texas Low Based Storm System.

More snowfall to follow overnight and
all day tomorrow...



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Of course... It was not an ideal day for photography, but it was
an excellent day for Skiing. We call that a great trade-off! For
much of the day the snowfall was very thick and the camera lens
would get smeared in seconds, so consequently we don’t have a
lot of pic’s to work with. The depth is building across all terrain
categories, so if you’re planning to ski Tremblant, you’ll have a
lot of snow to work with.



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The traffic is so light, the new snow is wonderful,
so we can’t help wondering...

Where Is Everyone?



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Here is the essence of tomorrow...

More Snow, Great Grooming...
And A Quick Return To The Summit!



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Tomorrow shows snowfall all day to the upside range
of 25cm’s with a -8C temp.

This is a skiers dream, and unfortunately/figuratively a drivers nightmare.
So, if you’re a regional Tremblant Fan coming in for First Tracks...
allow X2 for total transit. Basically, if you look at the first pic. in
the Orig. Post below, it’s exactly the same performance today,
it’s just snowy and grey now, still totally worth the effort. Just be
careful getting here.



----------------- 7:47 A.M. Orig. Post --------------------


102/102(*) Open Trails on all 4 sectors at #Tremblant .


This Is Exactly What We Did At Tremblant All Day.

... and we’ll be doing that again today, thank you very much!

With exceptions as noted below, you could carve like this for 100% of
the day, right up to last run, over 95% of the groomed terrain.


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There are Local Experts who thought that yesterday was close to, if not
the best groomed carving performance day, so far, for this season.
Regardless of any other personal experience, that’s an impressive
independent 3rd party endorsement that we support. As an extension
of that point we’d like to offer this Versant Nord/North Side Mini Case Study
of Trail # 57, Devils River, a local favourite and typical of yesterday’s overall
status, currently in near-flawless condition.

Devils River is a single Black Diamond Expert rated trail.
Yesterday, we would have taken a confident Intermediate there
under supervised total speed control without any hesitation.
In this case study it is as smooth as a golf course fairway and
the top layers of soft loose carving snow were 100% reliable
for the entire width and length of the whole descent.



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The pic. above, see’s down to the pic. below.

The pic. below looks closely at the trail surface snow quality over
the scale of the visible ski tip. as well as the distantly visible Duncan
Quad Chair Lift which the above pic. was taken under.

What you see below is a very fine snow particle that has been rendered
into a very dry state by the overnight cold, and groomed out over the width
and length of the whole trail to this very fast, and very high lateral grip
super smooth descent. You can see over the ski that the snow has what
we refer to as excellent “shear” properties, where very thin layers of snow
can simultaneously support a sliding technique just as easily as they can
support very high edge set angles for maximum carving turning force.
For “Front-Side Carvers”, you can let your ski edges “dig in” while laid over
sideways to utilize the arch of the skis sidecut profile to scribe alternating
turns with total and complete confidence of a 100% ice free base.



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“Sliding” or “Carving” with equal ease are hallmarks of the versatility
in these excellent conditions, and that ease is extended to the full
dimensions of the trail, so you don’t have to know in advance if
there is a “Good Side” or a “Better Line”, because it’s virtually the
same uniform depth and smooth softness from wall-to-wall.

That fact alone would be a primary consideration for using Devils River
as an Intermediate step-up training environment because the versatile
nature of the snow to support multiple techniques is also the most
advantageous “Forgiveness” factor that allows the snow to absorb
small mistakes without catching edges or generating excessive friction.



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Also typical of many trails at Tremblant, the undulating shapes of the
rolling topographical contours of the descent provide many opportunities
to allow good skiers to vary the turning radius and speed to navigate
changing pitch angles with maximum technique efficiency, not to mention
the outright fun factor of a natural roller-coaster effect that is an addictively
captivating personal physical experience you’d be happy to repeat almost
endlessly, or at least until you run out of muscle.



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Lapping upper Duncan to Devils River and on to the Duncan Quad Base is
better than any Gym on Planet Earth for carving Experts and you’ll fall asleep
tonight with the smile still on your face with the thoughts of today, and if you’re
really lucky, the promise of returning tomorrow.

Multiply that by the dozens of other similarly excellent descents and
you can begin to see the thrilling potential of these beautiful February
days at Tremblant.



A Short Conditions Editorial:

In last night’s Apres Ski we wrote:

"Everything in the Groomed Inventory was Optimized
to a knife-edge of high level refinement.”

What did we mean by that? Here’s the explanation:

The desirable basics in a groomed trail are smooth, reasonably dense,
and ice-free, low friction snow that will hold a lateral edge-set. Yesterday
morning, and for most of the day, that was practically everything groomed at
Tremblant as we have illustrated with our trail case study above.

However...
There were some spots where the top layers were not as deep and by late
afternoon some of those areas had the loose top layers displaced by traffic
and they became slick underfoot to the point of being very highly polished
and somewhat icy. They were very small in relation to the total square area
of overall groomed excellence, but the fact that they appeared at all needs to
be acknowledged in order to be objective, and for those who think we may be
too optimistic or not realistic enough.

The knife-edge of optimization is that very fine tipping-point where the top layers
remain with a loose, carve-able layer, and where they can not retain that layer and
the solid base becomes traffic-exposed. Fortunately, the passing grade for groomed
terrain was no less than 95% till last run, and the 5% was(as far as our experience
was concerned), all on the sun/wind-exposed Mid-Sud/Mid-South levels where some
topographical crests and the steeper pitches below them were effected.

With the understanding that “Perfect” only exists in concept, that means that
the difference between the bulk of the day’s 99% grade, and the end of the
day’s 95%, represented a very small loss that only happened in the last hour
or so, but if the day had gone on any longer, that 5% would have increased
more rapidly. The only trails we personally experienced this end-of-day slickness
on were #12, Erik Guay, on the crest and pitch just above the intersection with
trail #14, Zig-Zag, and trail # 95, Versant Soleil Algonquin, just a tiny patch
over the final crest to the base run-out, but we were told by 100% reliable
sources that there were at least a couple of other similarly small zones.

Very, very fortunately, that should all be taken care of by the snowfall
that has already started this morning, and should continue on as shown
in the weather data below. In that sense, the optimization we had yesterday
was also on the knife-edge of timing for a “Mother Nature” re-boot that
should provide ample natural snow resources to move forward with.

This grooming optimization scenario was very well played and with
critically accurate timing by the team in Mountain Op’s so it is a prime
example of how the maximum quality of the Ski experience for the
available resources is delivered day after day at Tremblant.




Weather Notes:


Wow... Nice ’n Easy Snowing Winter!






Pay attention to this one if you plan to drive
to the Mountain this weekend.





Conditions Notes:

All we talk about above is the foundation for the
superb quality of the Groomed trails today, PLUS...
the new snowfall. It’s way too early to tell how much
that will contribute, but for today during open hours
it should add a noticeable cushion over the base
without becoming too thick.

At -10C, at least its quite light and dry, so it should
have a lot of inherent low friction speed.

In the Sous Bois, Glades, etc., same situation about
too early to tell. We’ll keep fingers crossed for enough
to add a good depth and we’ll let you know how that’s
tracking at Apres Ski.





102/102(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 6, 2020, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca



Page Under Progressive Assembly.

“Saved By The Bell”

In this case, saved by a Snowstorm.

Tremblant Mountain Op’s keep conditions at the peak of
quality and Mother Nature comes in with new snowfall
just in time to maintain the highest levels of consistency
moving forward.





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