Doing Up At This Hour???", Apres Ski Highlights....
Dreaming about Skiing, that's what....
--->>> 90 Open Trails On Provisional Tremblant.ca Tomorrow
Snow Report.
--->>> 5 or so Cm, Fresh Snow with some drifting advantage
on the North.
------------ 6:50 A.M. Orig. Post --------------
81(*) Open Trails on a newly Snowy 4 sides
of Tremblant.
Important Tremblant Headline News Items (**):
-"Open" Hours On The Mountain Extended 15 Minutes
Daily. Effective Immediately, Closing at 3:45 P.M.
-Season Officially Extended To April 15th, 2012.
(**)Additional detail in tomorrows report.
5 CM of Fresh Snow will be a big asset in the
traction levels at Tremblant. Best Conditions
In The Laurentian's?
Even The "Competition" Races To Tremblant!
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in the surface quality, at least on the lower sectors of the Mountain
and and at least during the time that they remain at Zero. "Warm"
surface traction only exists until "Cold" takes it back to a more solid
form, but with the new Snow mixed in, we should still see a
softening all the way around and continued on, even as "Cold"
returns.
Today will should be a very good Ski/Board day while all this weather
is going on.
Speaking of weather, we were very glad to have had the luck or
wisdom to park on the North yesterday because we would never have
been able to get pictures like this "Last Run" Big Sky sample over
Beauchemin otherwise.
Here's a "Big Sky" reason why we never get bored with the "Fingerprint"
uniqueness of each and every wondrous Tremblant day...
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was a prime example as in less than 1/2 an hour, the sky turned to a
solid dark overcast and these fiery sunset light show scenes disappeared.
The following is a short "Skitorial", based
on recent "Challenging" conditions...
Are You A "One Trick Pony"?
There's no doubt that Skiing or Boarding on descents with highly variable
surface characteristics present challenges requiring almost instantaneous
adjustments in balance, stance, angulation, speed, edge control and
focus, to name only a few potential factors.
As we were Skiing around yesterday, the Chairlift conversation turned
to this topic because it was a big element in the days enjoyment factor.
Basically, the quicker you can adapt to these variations, the better off
you are in both control and enjoyment as your range of abilities allow you
to compensate on the fly.
When things can be a lot different over the next crest, around the next bend
or on one side or sector of a trail, or the Mountain, you need to be able to think
and react like a cat.
Quick implementation of corrective control techniques in braking, steering
etc., etc., allow you to make the most of any conditions and that's why you
need to have a selection of solid alternate control modes in order to never be
the "One Trick Pony" that becomes confused when anything happens outside
the only way they can act, or in this case, Ski or Board.
Humans tend to be... "creatures of habit", meaning we sometimes get
locked into patterns of behaviour without either realizing it, or having
any willingness to change. When it comes to Skiing, that can lead
to stagnation or worse, the entrenched performance of poor or
inappropriate technique for the conditions.
We all love "Perfect" days, but life's not really like that, so keep an open mind,
practice those different techniques you need, get lessons when you can and
turn every day into a great day with adaptable skills.
We've all heard people blame others or Mother Nature for not handing out
"Perfect" when we know the key to "Perfect" lies within our own skills and
abilities to adapt.
81(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable,
PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
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Weather variables never diminish the fun of a day on the
slopes of Tremblant. Go with the flow by adapting your
preparations to maximize utility.
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: Archive, Search Reports by Date: Index: http://tinyurl.com/yktelmu
When reviewing dates from any of the past, numbered, archived 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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