102/102(*) Open Trails.
“Average Is Excellent” Continues...
At least for today.
There was a "je ne sais quoi” factor yesterday that resulted
in some “Best Of Season” Groomed performance over numerous
trails.
We expect that to be virtually identical today.
Examples include but are certainly not limited to, Duncan,
Sissy Schuss, Algonquin, McCulloch, P’tit Bonheur, Beauchemin,
and many, many others, had smooth, seamless, quite near flawless
performance surfaces that begged for all-day maximum carving
energy just because they were so very, very good.
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One would be forgiven thinking that the Ontario
March "Spring Break” school holiday guests are the
most numerous group, and maybe they are, but we
have been totally surprised and a little amazed at
the numbers of American College student groups
here. Predominently from East Coast States, but
when you ask, you’ll find them from all over the
U.S.A.
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We think the name of this travel group is “Outside Life”.
There may be future video from them on this trip, so we’ll
have to monitor them for that.
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Weather Notes:
We are not sure where the heavy rain icons
are actually at because so-far, there is not
a single spec of rain anywhere that we can
see, nor does it look like there will be any
rain due to the current brightness through
the thin cloud cover. Parked vehicles are all
bone-dry, and there are patches of blue sky.???
We think there’s some possibility that the hourly
forecast for today may freak out a group of the
less motivated, but that will be their loss. There is
also the possibility that whatever precipitation falls
could be only snow. Recent weather profiles of similar
temp ranges have shown that there have been consistently
lower temps over elevations and winds aloft. As recently
as the last two days in a row there has been as much as
a -9 C elevation differential. If that trend maintains
dominance then we think snowfall is the likely product
from within the very much colder air masses well above
the Summit.
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Conditions Notes:
The Summit is currently at -3C so we expect a virtually
identical performance profile to yesterdays outstanding
high traction with excellent and very fast natural speed.
There is a very fine balance between softened top layers
and very firm substrates that is simultaneously delivering
very fine traction as well as great natural speed support.
The combination is both thrilling and addictive.
Trail after trail is so good that you just want to go back
for a second run, virtually everywhere.
Todays “Proof Of Snow” is what we sometimes use
a sampled depths and surface density characteristics
where in this case we are using the 122 cm’s ski pole
to help show accessible free depths of untracked
snow, as well as what we call a standard “Drop Test”,
where we drop a horizontal ski from a specific height
of 30 cm’s/ 1 foot, in order to illustrate the surface
density.
In this case below, what you are seeing is an increase
in surface density where the dropped ski has very cleanly
left a profile outline as quite a crisp, sharp edged impression.
If this was really powdery snow, the sharp outline would not
appear, as very dry snow blows around to a far greater degree
in a drop test leaving more of a blast mark than a cut outline.
Additionally, the loft in powdery snow frequently allows the ski
to almost disappear below the surface where here you can see
that the surface density has kept the bindings remaining largely
visible and supported at surface level. It is the surface density
generated by increased internal humidity that in our opinion,
is contributing to the very fast natural speed in the efficiently
compacted groomed and simultaneously, the thickness in the Sous Bois.
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------------ 2:45 P.M. Insert Update: ----------------
Please Note: At the time of this update, there was no rain
that we were aware of around the entire Alpine Trail Network.
It could have been raining somewhere else, but not in the
Old Village of Mt. T., or anywhere at Mountain elevations.
You can see below it was snowing all the way to the Nord/North Base.
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102/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open
Trails, Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for March 17, 2023, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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