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6(*) Open Trails on the Official List!

Hey Ottawa! Bonjour Montreal!
Great News For A Tremblant Weekend!

Fresh SNOW!
Just enough to help things along and definitely
enough to give us back our White Winter Tremblant!
100% more Tremblant ! Overnight!
There's snow all over the place! South Back On-Line!
Snow in the Summit trees... We Love It! Our "Little Bird" from yesterday's reply was
Certainly right about the additional Open terrain!

Today, Tomorrow:
The Skiing and Boarding on the open terrain will have a machine
generated soft, granular top level mixed with fresh snow that
should be very smooth.

These surfaces will be very fast, however there may be a tendency
for them to be thin in some places due to wear/traffic that may see a
lot of use over the firm sub-structure of hardened base that 48 hours
ago, was soft. From a practical standpoint, what this means is that
well tuned edges will be your best friend for grip, steering and braking.

Caution should be used with regard to speed as you explore any open
terrain on the Mountain for the first time. Be sure of safe control factors
before ripping around.

Todays temps are floating around, or just below the freezing mark
at base level, so higher up in our Summit based Open terrain, the
temps will stay nicely below zero enhancing the durability.

Light winds are from the from the North-West, or coming up the
Mountain from the Nansen sector, they may be somewhat variable,
but no problem at these temps.

While things start out snowy, foggy, grey, the forecast calls for
partial clearing, the possibility of sun and even a few snow flurries,
so you can expect to see almost anything over the course of the day.

The Weekend Forecast...

Is for a SUNNY SATURDAY! ...and a lightly snowy Sunday.
Sat's temp at -5 and Sunday's at just zero mean that it
is going to be a classic Tremblant early season weekend...
and YOU SHOULD BE PLANNING TO GET OUT!

The Ski/Board Alpine surfaces
should do nothing but get better and better,
every day, from now on.
Good conditions for snow making over stable two week weather
projections calling for slightly below average temps with
over-night low's on the Mountain of between -5 and-19C will
hopefully allow Mountain Crews to get a solid effort in on
all the expandable terrain currently under development.
Grooming Crews will likely be out every single night keeping
surfaces Tremblant Smooooth!


Over the next week to ten days:
Based on the SnowMaking currently under progress, experience,
the near-term weather forecast, and maybe even "Hunches"...
we feel the potential for additional new terrain to be opened(beyond
what is on the list below), may occur on the North.

If you look at our report for yesterday, given all the factors, it
just seems to make sense that committing all the resources
that Mountain Operations has placed into the Rope Tow/Upper
Lowell Thomas sector will yield Ski/Board terrain fairly quickly.

We feel Mountain Crews will be anxious to get this zone on-line for
the Soon-As-Possible opening of the North Park Features as well as
a general public access to more skiable acreage while there are South
Side restrictions from all the development work that's going on
with the course building and event running of the 24 Hour Children's
Charity Ski/Board-athon.

Here's another great indicator of Versant Nord, The North Side,
general conditions. When you see this much natural coverage
at the North Side Base level, you know that farther up in the
colder temps of the higher elevations, conditions are very favourable
for snowmaking and retention. 6(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable PDF
Trail and Grooming status report.
This excellent document is shown here in 2 parts today
so we can take a closer peek at the Legend Symbols,
particularly in the middle "SnowMaking" column.
Please note: South Trail Opening "Progressive" or gradual,
subject to Ski Patrol removing the ropes. Screenshots
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca ATTENTION Tremblant Regional
Weekend Day Trippers:

Dust off those Skis,
Haul out that Board!

Take advantage of premium early season Tremblant
conditions to fire up those dormant winter muscles!

You Can't Do This In The Gym!
scroll image sideways for complete ---->>>> Carving on the beautiful, one-and-only P'tit Bonheur on
Tremblant's Versant Nord, has been exceptionally fine
right from opening day!


Links:

http://www.tremblant.ca

http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-e.htm

(*) 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 the
First 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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Here are a bunch of Apres Ski WebCam Snap Shots of
views around the Mountain.

Pic's 1 and 2 are an indication of the confidence Mountain
Crews have in the possibility of "Top To Bottom" coverages.

Pic's Number 5 and 7 are particularly important because they
show significant snowmaking on Beauchemin.

Any Pic's showing snow in the Summit trees is good because
it shows temps are holding below zero, and that we're getting
ground accumulations as well.

All WebCam Snap Shots are Courtesy of http://www.tremblant.ca
please note time stamps in lower right corner of each pic.

No one is more motivated than the Tremblant Mountain Crews
to see more open terrain come on-line. With the return to winter
type weather patterns with well below zero overnight temps, we
think you'll see fairly rapid development.

Any natural snow we get will be a huge bonus and we look
forward to as much of that as Mother Nature is willing to share!
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