12/14/09 Conditions
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:36 am
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Throw your gear in the car and go to Tremblant... NOW!
Fresh powder from Mother Nature...
A little Pre-Christmas gift you can give yourself!
Conditions are that good... make whatever excuses you need to,
but just get here as soon as you can.
This is what we've been waiting for...
We'll be back with more shortly, but we really wanted to get this in
for any earlybirds sitting on the fence... just go....
Scroll down for Morning Daylight update...
Mid-Night Web Cam Snap Shots courtesy of http://www.tremblant.ca
DAYBREAK UPDATE:
The Official trail count this morning is at 14, however, there is a
"progressive" or gradual opening of this trail count that will take
place during the next few hours. We start out with North Side
access via the Lowell Thomas chair lift for the top half runs that
have been on-line since opening day. As per the following paragraph,
this is where there will be a "Progressive" or gradual opening of the South Side.
There are race teams on the Mountain preparing for the upcoming
FIS races and runs have been set aside for their use for the time being.
Todays weather sees us starting out at around -10C under cloudy
skies, but that's fine because those clouds contain Snow! How much
snow they contain has yet to be determined, but if it is anything
like yesterdays snowfall, it could be another significant accumulation...
only time will tell.
We have contradictory wind forecasts today... from the Weather Network,
the wind is forecast to be from the South East, or moving across the
Mountain from the Duncan sector towards Beauvallon, while Tremblant.ca
predicts an North West wind which would be coming pretty much directly
up the Mountain on Beauvallon... regardless, it should be at a low to
moderate velocity of around 5km . The Lowell Thomas chair lift should
be sheltered from the wind until the mid-way point, but with the low
wind speed, it really shouldn't be much of a bother and what you will
feel will be closest to the top.
Here is a Web Cam Snap Shot of the flag at the Summit, courtesy of
http://www.tremblant.ca. Looking at this flag via the Tremblant Web
Cam system is always a good indication of where the wind sits and
at this time we can see that http://www.tremblant.ca is correct in its
indicated wind direction.
Continued below to include additional images...
Links:
http://www.tremblant.ca
http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-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
.
Throw your gear in the car and go to Tremblant... NOW!
Fresh powder from Mother Nature...
A little Pre-Christmas gift you can give yourself!
Conditions are that good... make whatever excuses you need to,
but just get here as soon as you can.
This is what we've been waiting for...
We'll be back with more shortly, but we really wanted to get this in
for any earlybirds sitting on the fence... just go....
Scroll down for Morning Daylight update...
Mid-Night Web Cam Snap Shots courtesy of http://www.tremblant.ca
- The Tremblant Mountain Crews are driving around RIGHT NOW! This is going to be a great day! Web Cam Snap Shot taken right in front of Summit Grand Manitou.
- 12.14.09 The corduroy starts here! .jpg (15.84 KiB) Viewed 4255 times
- Looking from the Summit, down "La Crete" towards the top of Beauvallon, the Mountain Crews are reviewing their work under the powerful spot lights of the big packers and we're sure they're happy with this!
- 12.14.09 This could be yours! .jpg (17.21 KiB) Viewed 4255 times
DAYBREAK UPDATE:
The Official trail count this morning is at 14, however, there is a
"progressive" or gradual opening of this trail count that will take
place during the next few hours. We start out with North Side
access via the Lowell Thomas chair lift for the top half runs that
have been on-line since opening day. As per the following paragraph,
this is where there will be a "Progressive" or gradual opening of the South Side.
There are race teams on the Mountain preparing for the upcoming
FIS races and runs have been set aside for their use for the time being.
Todays weather sees us starting out at around -10C under cloudy
skies, but that's fine because those clouds contain Snow! How much
snow they contain has yet to be determined, but if it is anything
like yesterdays snowfall, it could be another significant accumulation...
only time will tell.
We have contradictory wind forecasts today... from the Weather Network,
the wind is forecast to be from the South East, or moving across the
Mountain from the Duncan sector towards Beauvallon, while Tremblant.ca
predicts an North West wind which would be coming pretty much directly
up the Mountain on Beauvallon... regardless, it should be at a low to
moderate velocity of around 5km . The Lowell Thomas chair lift should
be sheltered from the wind until the mid-way point, but with the low
wind speed, it really shouldn't be much of a bother and what you will
feel will be closest to the top.
Here is a Web Cam Snap Shot of the flag at the Summit, courtesy of
http://www.tremblant.ca. Looking at this flag via the Tremblant Web
Cam system is always a good indication of where the wind sits and
at this time we can see that http://www.tremblant.ca is correct in its
indicated wind direction.
- After you've read all the forecasts about wind direction, you can always check the flag to see what is really going on. Here we see the Summit Observation deck with the Tremblant flag streaming in a South-Westerly direction at this time. As everyone knows, that could change any time. Web Cam Snap Shot courtesy of www.tremblant.ca
- 12.14.09 Morning Wind Direction .jpg (22.08 KiB) Viewed 4242 times
Continued below to include additional images...
Links:
http://www.tremblant.ca
http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-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
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