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What Is Wrong With This Picture?
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Any experienced digital photography processing person
may look at this photo above and say that it has a lot of “Noise”...
You can see that most noticeably in the overhead blue sky.
“Noise” in digital photography is typically associated with a grainy
appearance in the image cause by the use of a high numeric ISO,
i.e., a cameras sensitivity to light. In the “Old” days of film, a high ISO was
film that was called high speed and could register an image in very low light.
In this case, that grainy appearance is caused by billions of wind-driven,
extremely small snow crystals being propelled up the open slope
here in a sort-of “Boundary Layer” at least 10 metres deep up off/over the
trail surface. So, while it only actually snowed for a while this morning,
snow was literally moving over the Mountain all day.
Technically, the skiing is very fine, but the wind was certainly a factor
in comfort, even a bit pushy, passing through or over some trail crest
zones like crossing the top of Beauvallon on La Crete.
There was still good speed, and surface compaction in the groomed were
all quite good as well. The softness that generated a few unusual mogul
zones yesterday was just about totally absent today.
If you could look up “Wintery”, it might have todays weather profile
as a sited example!
There was a fair demand for the Gondola as a way up, even to the point
of a wee lineup, however with the actual wind direction, riding up Flying
Mile and TGV, it was at your back and there were moments of apparent
calmness as the lift speed was enough to be a big offset.
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It’s supposed to be a cool overnight @ -20C, but... it has the feel
of one of those nights where the low temp could drop well beyond
the forecast... we’d give you 50/50 odds...
The best part of the morning forecast so far is about one third the wind speed.
That, along with a couple of degrees C warmer, should make for a day with the
same great skiing, but a little easier weather.
------------------- 7:19 A.M. Orig. Post -----------------------------
102/102(*) Open Trails On All 4 Sectors At #Tremblant .
Another 9cm’s of Official Snowfall, but we can tell you for a
fact that there were wind-shaped drift-in zones of up to double
that in some Versant Nord/North Side Sous Bois/Glades and
narrow tree-sheltered trails like this case study sample below.
If this was the only thing we put on this page
for the entire day, it would be enough.
((**)Let’s call this one “After”)
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Of course, that won’t do as a either complete statistical record
or comprehensive functional description, so there’s all the rest
that’s included here, but looking at all the snow in that pic. above
certainly carries a very direct and accurate overall impression.
There’s a TON of fresh snow at Tremblant!
The ambient snowpack here is over 120cm’s, and not just from yesterday,
but from all the recent snowstorm/snowfall events. The skis are 160’s but
would not go any further as the rear bindings and ski-brakes got jammed
up with snow, the 120 cm ski poles however, could be pushed straight
into the snow vertically below the surface, so we left them up to show
visible evidence.
Below:
For ease of comparison, here’s the pic. we ran on 2.13.20 in the same
basic descent position, but a flip-side uphill view. This pic. below is slightly
below, just down the trail maybe 15 metres or so from the one above.
If you look at the 2 Ski Patrol Boundary poles in the one below, you can see
those same 2 poles in the top picture from yesterday, on the left side of
the trail looking down. They may seem farther away, but that’s due to the
wide angled pic. that makes them look farther away than they really are.
((**)Lets call this one “Before”...)
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Beyond all that, what we also want to point out is the value of using
a Case Study format to show evolving conditions. With 102 Open
Trails and a big bunch of stat’s, you really don’t get the same sense
from random pic’s as what pictures in key-point locations, like these
2 above, can illustrate over time.
You may be in London England, or Long Island New York, but if you
are one of the few regular readers here, you should be able to plainly
see the changes that have occurred in our ongoing case study of Versant
Nord/North Side Trail # 66, Le Tunnel since it was groomed for the first
time a week ago. It’s a small out-of-the-way canary in the coal mine
that’s a huge indicator of the abundance of snow now integrated into
the full range of Tremblant’s magnificent Alpine Snow-sports Trail Network.
If you’ve concluded that the conditions are fantastic, you’d be correct.(%)
Weather Notes:
There were lots of folks worried about the base level temp’s
getting to Zero C yesterday, and maybe that did happen on
the Resort side base, but certainly not at either the North base
or up on Mountain elevations. There was a -5C elevation differential
to the Summit last night, a degree more than average, so with
overnight dropping temp’s we’re confident “Winter” has come
through without a single mark.
Temp’s are falling again today, not too far, but enough to maybe
dry out some of the new snow’s internal humidity. The wind may
be the most noticeable thing, but even with a lot of “Brisk”
breezes, we’ve been surprised by the number of sheltered calm
zones we’ve seen, so there have always been lots of opportunities
to find safe, quiet, relaxing, trail-side relief.
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Conditions Notes:
No doubt, ton’s and ton’s of fresh new snow favour Experts
and Un-groomed conditions, but Tremblant Mountain Crews
always prioritize Beginner and Intermediate terrain for
groomed post-snowfall access, so you should be good to go.
It may, probably, could, take a couple of days to groom closer
to ideal compaction, especially where deeper drift lines crossed
trails, so for today it’s quite important to stick with matched
skill level terrain.
There was so much snow by Last Run yesterday that even P’tit Bonheur
was making fair sized moguls on the top pitch. There may be lingering
softness and a few moguls there again today? Below the top pitch, it
was like skiing on a golf course fairway. Super smooth with nary a ripple
and some very sweet, shallow, soft powder. It was like floating on air
and it should groom beautifully for today.
102/102(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 19, 2020, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
- Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
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It’s full winter seasonal maturity
worth every ounce of effort you can
make to be here.
(%) - If you’re reading this record in some future September as
part of a Time-frame, Ski Holiday research project for an advance
booking in February at Tremblant, and you’ve concluded this is
one of very best bets you’ll ever make for a genuine, authentic
“Winter” Ski Holiday, you’d be correct.
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What’s The Use? Research Benefits of this Archive: http://tinyurl.com/gp5vjps
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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.
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.
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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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