Rain at Base, Sleety,rainy,snowy mix at Summit
with one redeeming virtue....
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so there was still good edging, but this is where
the base prep makes a huge difference because
appropriately waxed bases were fast.
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You Needed your Descente Poncho to be comfortable
and we found our bright yellow safety glasses lens
made an undeniable improvement to vision as they
restore complete contrast in grey ambient fog which
otherwise makes it difficult.
You need to be a special, adaptable person to enjoy the
"different" weather, but if you can suit up and stay dry,
wax with the right stuff, the skiing is still very good.
At one stage, people were actually "Whooop Whoop" cheering
riding up good 'ole Lowell Thomas.
More later if possible.
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4(*) Open Trails on the Official list today,
representing the one North Side descent,
P'tit Bonheur to Lowell Thomas Triple Chair.
What is the Value of Skiing/Boarding
Tremblant today?
Skiing/Boarding on P'tit Bonheur at this early
point in the season allows you to get a high
quality training start on the season.
It is impossible to active the precise muscle use
at any gym that "on hill" performance gives you. Period.
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or muscle recruitment shown above here, in any gym. You
need to actually do it.
If you are a member of any 24hour Tremblant
Children's Charity Fundraiser team, you need to be
out here getting this kind of conditioning so the event
will not be such a big adjustment shock if you have
no actual ski/board conditioning. If you've got future
Tremblant visits planned, conditioning now will help
you get the most of them.
Skiing/Boarding the opening days of Tremblant brings
into sharp focus at least three things:
1) No matter how much Gym work, "Spinning" class,
yoga, or any other form of off-season fitness you do...
nothing can replicate the exact muscle use of the "on hill"
performance of your winter sport. If it's been 7 months
since you were on the snow and you "jump into the fire"
of the 24Hr event with no actual Ski/Board conditioning
you run several risks related to your health and safety.
2) You don't need hundreds of acres of terrain to get very
meaningful pre-season conditioning. P'tit Bonheur is quite
capable of turning your legs into jello. Just try doing 6-7
laps per hour for a while. We've come off the Mountain
with toasted legs every day so far and you will too if
you just keep the pace up.
3) Repetitive Cycle Training offers many advantages in terms
of technique refinement. When you can practice, practice, practice,
you discover the subtle elements in your technique that
can be recognized, refined, developed and implemented
that you just don't get any other way. All good competitive
Ski/Board racers have spent many an hour, day, week, season
running gates to find a 10th of a second in their personal bests.
All expert skiers and boarders go through similar cycles to
work up to their level.
Bottom line on this point: Day(s) out practicing will always
put you leaps ahead of those that don't.
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conditions associated with "rain" or freezing rain as they think
may happen, which temps at +2C or so. This means the summit
may see some "firm" conditions as it's cooler temp at altitude
is just below freezing.
Winds from the North-East, at low to moderate velocities,
coming up the Mountain from the P'tit Bonheur sector.
Looks like today and tomorrow are the final two days of
this warm spell and after that more seasonal, winter-like
temps below zero, and ideal for snowmaking, should be
back with us.
4(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable PDF
Grooming and Trail Status Report.
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We got our Tremblant views back yesterday which was
really nice, the sunshine and far away horizons have
been missed 'til now.
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of a great season!
Links:
http://www.tremblant.ca
http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-e.htm
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Understanding Trail Counts - http://alturl.com/n54py http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/trailmap-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
Forum Index: http://alturl.com/r4cco
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: Winter Daily Reports, Index/Archive: http://tinyurl.com/yktelmu
When reviewing dates from any past, numbered, archived index 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.
(
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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