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2.29.20 Leap Into Tremblant Winter V.2.0 !!!

Here is a Mother Nature 2.29.20 Bar Graph showing exactly
how “Winter” Snow Accumulation Totals are trending
in this “Leap Year” time period.



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Why this "Mother Nature Bar Graph” showing an upward
trend-line above is important:

To begin with, uninsulated snow in the trees is subjected to heat
from all sides, so when exposed to warm air it melts off in hours.
6 days ago it was +2C here, 5 days ago it was +7C here, 4 days
ago it was +3C here. 4 days ago, there was virtually no snow
on the fallen tree where you now see close to a metre. We did
not have a measuring tape when we took this pic. yesterday afternoon,
however the Skis are 160cm’s and the Ski Poles are 120cm’s, so
as crude as it is, there is fairly accurate scale in this pic.

That’s a lot of snow in a short time period.
It’s more than the Official total, and that’s just
what you see on the tree and is notwithstanding
what may be even deeper drifting within the
surrounding topographical Mountain contours.

Further to the “more than the Official total" part...
It also depicts 2 favourable additional Snowfall accumulation anomalies
for this Versant Nord/North Side, Lowell Thomas trail-side location that
we have identified over the seasons, factors we theorize are very positive
elements of potential snowfall contribution here.

1) Drift-in. The Official Total is one thing, the way Mother Nature shapes
it and deposits it with the wind in “drift” features is another, and very often
far greater thing. If you are a Sous Bois, Glades, Hors Piste Tremblant Fan,
that should be a very important factor potential for you.

2) Orographic Precipitation. Relatively warmer and humid base/ground level
surface air is propelled up the ramp shape of the Mountain into cooler air
masses at far higher elevations above the peak, where the moisture condenses
and falls as snow at higher rates than base/ground levels. If you are a Sous Bois,
Glades, Hors Piste Tremblant Fan, that should also be a very important factor
potential for you.

For the ultimate potential, combine them.

We theorize that’s what you see above.

Maybe we are wrong, but the snow is there right now and somehow,
the evidence speaks for itself. This is real, this is Tremblant today,
this is an Open Sous Bois zone you can go to now.



Weather Notes:





Moving forward...





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"Experts Take Care Of Themselves.”

We have made a few references over the last couple of days about
“Abundant, Deep, Fresh, Powder Snow Favours Experts.”

In that sense, no matter what we write, legitimate Experts already
know that 55cm’s of fresh snow in 72 hours means a range of almost
endless possible challenge and fun. Just take another look at the “Mother
Nature Bar Graph” pic. above. This is not Beginner territory. From the
standpoint that Expert appreciation is so individually defined without any
help from us, we feel that our largest attention at this time for Experts is
to point out the extraordinary technical proficiency required for conditions
the way they are today. Additionally, we need to focus even more than we
usually do on insights for Beginners and Intermediates for whom reassurance
should simultaneously include encouragement to find personal reward in
mastering any new levels of challenge. The secrets to that right now are
patience and persistence. Mother Nature can take Skiing, and in a musical
analogy, turn it from “Chopsticks” simplicity into “Rachmaninoff” complexity
with 55cm’s in a very short period, as she has done here now.

If this challenge is new to you, you need to be patient, no aspiring musician
will play Rachmaninoff without practice and persistence. You can figure
this out with the basics you have, what you need is appropriate caution
with every moment of constructive experience you can get. Get lessons
if need be. Mastery will come with repetition in the presence of correct
knowledge... and with Nansen and P’tit Bonheur, quicker than you think.




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Conditions Notes:

Due to the usually large concerned feedback we’re getting from
Beginners and Intermediates on the demanding muscle effort it
takes to navigate the current deep fresh snow, we’re including the
following general explanation regarding grooming efficacy after 55cm’s
of snowfall in 72 hours.

This might sound a bit strange, but it is accurate...

Easier than yesterday, but not necessarily easy, yet.

What the means is that considering there was Officially
over half a metre of new snowfall in 3 days, in the groomed
inventory it is not all packed to ideal density yet, but every
day gets closer. The “Loft” of the new snow at that depth,
requires multiple grooming cycles just to get all the microscopic
air spaces pressed out. Until that occurs, it has a somewhat
soft and spongy characteristic that after a day’s worth of traffic
can generate moguls. “Loft” is defined as the space between
innumerable individual particles or items that are in one single
containment or group. We might normally associate that “Loft” concept
with a “Down Filled Jacket”, where the “Down” or very fine duck
feathers are sewn into a sandwich-like quilted assembly.
The “Loft” is the thickness or volume of the entire assembly
and in that example, the trapped air space provides a very high
insulation value.

In the case of fresh snowfall, the “Loft” or trapped air spaces between
individual snow particles is what we end up calling “Powder” Snow,
and it has very low density that easily gets tracked up and eventually,
if there is enough traffic, it forms moguls where repeated patterns of
user pathways create peaks and valleys while descending over it.

If this happens on “Expo”, trail # 82, genuine Mogul Experts love it.

If this happens on “P’tit Bonheur”, trail # 72, Beginners and less
confident Intermediates struggle with control moves that are made
far more challenging by the unpredictably irregular resistance of
very thick, tracked or mogul’d surfaces and this is why Mountain Crews
prioritize “Green” terrain immediately after any big snow event.

Normally, a grooming machine can press out the “Loft” in about
10cm’s worth of fresh snowfall in one pass. When you have 55cm’s
in 72 hours, it takes multiple daily passes where each day represents
an incremental increase in density that accumulatively works towards
the ideal density level that is mogul resistant with a normal daily traffic flow.

Some will ask... “Why don’t they just go over and over it a bunch of
times the first night?” The answer is that a grooming machine with
an experienced operator can process about 4 acres per hour and with
over 400 groomed acres to do, there are just not enough hours in the
Night-Shift, or machines in the fleet, to cover all of them physically
with the number of passes it would take to pack out 55cm’s everywhere.
You can’t just go out and buy a hundred machines either, this only happens
once or twice a season, and it would not make any economic sense
to have a huge fleet sitting around for use 2 or 3 days a year, besides
which, there would not ever be enough trained drivers for such an
infrequent 2 or 3 nights per year occurrence.

Bottom line on this point... Every day sees incremental improvements
over a wider scope and we need to have patience while Mountain Crews
work around the clock to accomplish what could arguably be the largest
single logistical trail support operation of the whole season.




102/102(*)Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open Trails,
Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for February 29, 2020, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca

Please Note:

We are not sure of the implications to the Ski Season of the recently
reported “COVID-19” Coronavirus spread around the World, and more
specifically to North America. We have begun to get questions regarding
this situation and how some newly announced global travel restrictions
could become more widespread. So far we are not aware of effects directly
related, however as more concern and more attention seem to be rising,
the possibility exists that the future could be influenced. All we can do
is stay tuned and our primary news sources this far are CBC and CNN
as there do not seem to be Ski Industry responses yet.




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