Our apologies, we had hoped to have a more extensive
Apres Ski this eve, but technical issues prevented that
so we will include that pic. content in tomorrow mornings
reporting.
We had a great day today, even if it was quite limited in terrain.
The Circuit we anticipated on P'tit Bonheur to Beauchemin Bas, Lower,
worked out beyond our expectations. High Speed lapping was a ton of
fun and we got back the sweet carving that has not been easy to find
with all the recent heat.
Somehow, these 2 North Side trails seem to have escaped a lot of the
effects of the heat and have retained fine qualities of Smooth, Fast
and Wall to Wall complete coverage.
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T360 Preliminary Apres Ski @ 8:00 P.M.
The "Conditions" we found today at Tremblant were very "Interesting"...
Some might even call them "Hot"....
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circuit for training style exercise in lapping, right where we thought it
would be on P'tit Bonheur to Beauchemin Bas, and we spent the entire
time making smooth high speed carved turns on what we feel were
the best and certainly most complete surfaces available in the Open
inventory at Tremblant, and probably, East of the Rockies.
We ripped up this Snow White Alpine Autobahn All Day.
(and couldn't find a single serious or significant mark on it anywhere)
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We'll have more on all that later on in the full version of Apres Ski,
with support pic's to follow below in reply.
Lord Willing, Before Mid-Night...
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29(*) Open Trails, representing 4 main paths
of Summit to Base descent at Tremblant.
Up to +10 C, maybe partially sunny afternoon sky's
light Westerly Winds coming up Beauvallon. We feel there
is potential for overnight snow tonight.
The Kids Are Still Having Fun At Tremblant!
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This is a point in time when the (*) "Understanding Trail Counts"
icon in our addendum below is particularly useful. 29 Open trails, or
portions thereof, are used as sequential links in order to Ski/Board
from the Summit to the Base of either South or North.
South Descents:
Basically, you can descend from the Summit to the South Resort Base
Via Nansen, or Beauvallon. You can also cross over from Upper Nansen
to lower Beauvallon using the Mi-Chemin Mid-Nansen connector. Surprisingly,
Mi-Chemin was in very nice shape yesterday. While we expected to
find it perhaps slow and sticky, it was for the most part, clean and fast!
The Plateau across the bottom of Alpine was kind of damp and a bit slow,
and the path has been diverted onto Beauvallon above the TGV, but
under the "Heat Wave" circumstances, that's a very small effort to make
to have this option.
Flat Light made automatic photography challenging to capture
contrasts, but the moguls in this pic were close, tight, steep, 'n deep.
A thigh burning workout requiring high energy levels and advanced
skill sets to go through quickly while under control.
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however the depth and close spacing of moguls in the centre portions
was not ideal, leaving the edges of this sector for beginners to manoeuvre.
North Descents:
Basically, you can descend from the Summit to the North Base Via
P'tit Bonheur/Beauchemin, or Rope Tow to Mid-Upper Duncan and
down from there. Using the Duncan link was very demanding in
both navigation and physical effort. The Open portion of Duncan
required the use of small snow bridges between larger patches
of snow and there were long sections of moguls until you reached
the bottom runout which was wide and smooth. We hope to get on
to Devils River today to see what that's like. In the mean-time,
P'tit Bonheur to Beauchemin remains our top pick for the best
Skiing/Carving, speed sustained and safe Open terrain at Tremblant.
North, Expo Quad Sector, still showing snow where it needs to be
as links to the best currently available terrain.
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Therefore, for the most winter-like Carving/Cruising, we recommend
either Nansen or P'tit Bonheur/Beauchemin.
Everything else has, or may have moguls that can be difficult to
navigate or require extensive and very durable muscle power to
get through.
We have fitness and skill levels that are above average and we found that
the mogul routes were quite demanding in terms of the sustained
levels of output required. Excellent exercise to be sure, but it does not
take long to tap out energy or build up lactic acid responses in legs, so
if you want to make a day of of it, best to pace yourself or stick with the
smoothest routes available.
You seriously need to put everything into perspective in the sense that
only a handful of Eastern Ski Resorts/Areas are going to be open after
today, with many announcing their pre-mature closing, effective now.
So, limited as it is, at least Tremblant is still open and expectations
have to be adjusted for the realities of Spring 2012's early and extraordinary,
thermal heat shock and the consequent loss of terrain.
You can either get out and Ski what's safely available, or pack up your
gear for summer storage. Speaking only for ourselves, as long as P'tit
Bonheur/Beauchemin is open, we're happy to carve away the hours
doing laps on what we think is one of the most brilliantly set out and
fine, reliable snow covered trails anywhere East of the Rockies.
29(*) Open rails on the Official, Downloadable,
PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
Please Note: at time of this publication the PDF file
available is actually from yesterday. We will attempt to
record today's dated PDF if one becomes available.
The difference between this file and the Official Tremblant.ca
Snow Report for today is One North Side Trail, #93, "Superieur".
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PDF, Trail and Grooming status report,
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Please note: Brief Apres Ski detail posted above at top of page.
We had hoped to have had more time to expand, but it was not
possible so we'll elaborate in tomorrow mornings post. Thanks
for your vist and patience!
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