100/102(*) Open Trails At #Tremblant.
Grey Weather, Great Fun!
(This photo contains very important key insights into the
most ideal elements of the best portions of Tremblant.
See conditions notes below.)
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Please Note: Early initial data post to facilitate site logistics.
More to follow as time permits.
Weather Notes:
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------------- Supplementary Weather Data: ---------------
This forecast supplement was created 48 hours ago
but still has direct application to today in the left
hand graphic, as well as ongoing in the right hand
side graphic where the basic question of how the
exact path of the incoming warmth and precipitation
is not completely predictable. Along with the
unpredictability of the ground level width or linear
path, we would add that there could be substantial
variability in the horizontal/atmospheric height/depth
of both the temp and precipitation over typically cooler
Mountain elevations that could help maintaining far less
thermal effects up/over the Alpine trail network.
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Conditions Notes:
In The Groomed:
With respect to the photo at page top, the first key
insight is located in the lower left hand corner of
the pic where you will see a distinct vertical edge
to the trail where a groomer blade has passed by.
If you look farther down the trail, you’ll see the very
same trail-side grooming edge on the right side too.
What has happened is that wind shaping in this zone
has drifted in a ridge of deep natural snow that if
not groomed, may have extended dozens of metres
diagonally towards, out and up from this frame, towards
the Summit of Duncan Haut/Upper, out of the lower
right side of the frame.
The second insight...
Grooming has harvested that deep ridge of trail edge
snow and hundreds of others just like it, and redistributed
that natural snow into the centre of the groomed trail you
see before you. The net effect is the even, level and
billiard-table-smooth finished trail of Versant Nord,
North Side Devils River which you may, at your leisure,
ether cruise easy on, or hard charge carve high performance
turns until your quad muscles scream for joy.
The third insight...
Either way, its fantastic groomed conditions and this is
only one of hundreds of pictures that could be taken
illustrating the exact same thing happening right now
in many, many places on the Mountain.
A fourth insight that we are intentionally leaving to this
last place because it is applicable both up and down between
Groomed and Sous Bois, is that in an average winter we
might not see this abundance and the consequent benefits
above and below, until early to mid February. In our opinion
we’re definitely way ahead of average.
In The Sous Bois/Hors Piste/Glades and Un-Groomed:
The insight of the page top picture benefit also extends into
the entire Sous Bois group because that same cross-section
ridge of natural snowfall depth that was harvested into the
groomed, also extends for innumerable metres into the bush
exiting out of the lower left corner of the frame. That
phenomenon is also happening in/across hundreds of Open
Sous Bois topographical contours where wind-shaped drifting
has deposited depths that routinely exceed the Official snowfall
totals, frequently, by half again as much, and occasionally by
as much as double the amount of any individual snowfall event.
The magic in the Sous Bois is that you get to go and find them!
Tomorrow’s Topic... The “More Or Less Of Sweet Spots."
100/102(*) Open Trails on the Archival Copy of Official Open
Trails, Grooming, Snowmaking, Lift Status and Mountain Conditions
for January 7, 2026, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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