11/22/12 Tremblant Conditions

T360 · Post by **T360** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:49 am

Global Tremblant Apres Ski Nightshift @ 11:02 P.M.
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Introductory Apres Ski Edit... @ 7:00 P.M.
(Full Version to follow later this eve. as "reply", attached below.)

If you've ever ridden up Tremblant's Gondola and seen this sight...

You Know There's "No Question" You're Going To
Have A Great Day!

Especially if it's Opening Day!

No Question, Great Day!

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For the most part, very fine, spring like conditions with great traction
and lots of speed.

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There were some icy bits, we'll talk about those later, but regardless,
they were understandably on some of the steeper pitches and with due
care and control, not too difficult to navigate or bypass.

An Absolutely Wonderful, Blue Bird Big Sky at Tremblant
with the added bonus of South Side Top-To-Bottom via
Beauvallon/Johannsen!

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Expanded Apres Ski with more pic's 'n detail later on this eve.,
hopefully between 10 and 11 P.M.

As Opening Days go, right up there with the best!
Congratulations Mountain Crews for getting so much done!

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12(*) Open Trails on the First, Opening Day of the
2012/2013 Winter Alpine Snow Sports Season!

What a relief!

No more waiting!

No More Guessing!

Are You Ready For This ?!?!?!

It's Time to Jump Into Action At Tremblant!

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You can absolutely go Skiing/Boarding at Tremblant today and
miraculously, you can do it on 12 Open Trails and Top-To-Bottom
on the South Side, right down to the Resort Base!!!

We put up the raw data preview of todays Open List and Mountain
Stat's yesterday eve., and at that point, there were 13 open trails
included. The one missing in the Official Snow Report this morning is
Trail #37, Onesime, the dedicated beginner area, just to the right hand
side of the Gondola Base as you look up Johannsen.

We're absolutely thrilled to have such an extensive Opening Day Inventory,
and to be able to Ski/Board all the way from the Summit to the resort base
is a very rare privilege!

Bravo Tremblant!!!

We can not remember how far back it may have been that Tremblant's
been Open Top-To-Bottom on the first day of the season and if there's
anyone out there who can recall such a season, by all means, please
let us know so we can add that to this record for comparisons sake.

This joyful occasion of abundant Opening Day terrain is brought to you
by Mountain Crews who have been working diligently since November 4th
with their super-effective Snowmaking and Grooming/Packing equipment.

This Joyful occasion is also brought to you by Mother Nature who has
been kind enough to provide solidly Sub-Zero overnight temps that are
just what Crews needed to generate the tons of blown snow that have been
necessary to put in place.

On The South:

Looking closely at what we've got open shows not only the main feature,
Beauvallon, right from the Summit to the Resort Base, but there's Nansen
as well, as far down as Mi-Chemin which you can take over to the TGV.

Overlooking Lac Tremblant, Snowmaking and Cool Temps have
allowed Crews to Open Beauvallon, Johannsen from the Summit,
right down to the Resort Base Today.

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On The North:

Lead off by our usual North Side best friend P'tit Bonheur, we also have
Rope Tow, with several Park Modules, under the Lowell Thomas Triple
Chair, down to La Traverse, the connective part of Beauchemin, where
it leads to the Lowell T Triple Loading zone. Beauchemin Upper and
Lowell Thomas Upper round out the North Side selections.

Crews have been working on P'tit Bonheur for almost 2 weeks solid.
We can't wait to ski it and we get to do that today!

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What A Fantastic Array Of Opening Day Terrain!

Todays Weather is supposed to be starting out foggy or overcast, then becoming
Sunny, bright and "Spring Skiing" warm, with a projected high of plus 7C.
The winds are forecasted to be light to moderate from the South, so they'll
be moving across the Summit from the Soleil Sector towards P'tit Bonheur.
With the partial clearing we would not be surprised to find the Summit breezy
at times, and it will be cooler up there by 4 or 5 degrees C due to elevation,
but with these mild temp's, no problem at all. If anything, the perception
of "Cool" will be mostly that we are not yet winter temp climatized, there
are many East Coast areas that are still green and playing Golf. Not on the Slopes
of Tremblant Though.... We've Got Snow!

The most important part of any Opening day coverage is Apres Ski and
that will certainly be more interesting than usual with so much to be able
to show. We'll have a 2 part Apres Ski today with both preliminary and
feature coverage. We'll have wallpaper size pic's to go fullscreen with where
ever you are around the world if you can't be with us.

We look forward to seeing you then!

12(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable PDF, Trail
and Grooming Staus Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
Please Note: There's a wee bit of fuzzy focus and some
missing grid lines in today's PDF. We're sure it's just a
start-up tech issue and we expect that to be cleared up.

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Where are you?

We hope you're in line at the Gondola for this very rare
Top-To-Bottom Opening Day!

See 'ya Apres Ski!

Links:

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T360 · Post by **T360** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:02 pm

Opening day quality is a very relative thing and subsequently
subject to many comparisons. But... as far as our recent, say like
a couple of decades, memories go, this has been one stellar
Opening day.

When compared to previous Opening days, we think this
one will stand out for all the right reasons...

Who can remember more open trails than we had for Today's
Opening?

Who can remember the last time we had Opening day with
Full Mountain Vertical, Top-To-Bottom on the South side?

When did we ever have so much virtually hazard free Mountain
terrain for Opening Day last?

Frankly, we don't know the answers to any of those questions
ourselves, we can't remember when any of them occurred last.

So that brings us directly to today, an opening day for the record books
on all three of the above. A Glorious, sunny, not too cold day with:
- very high quality surfaces,
- loads of grip, and...

....not so much as a rock or a twig that we could find!

Marvellous...!!! We're so appreciative of all the untold hours of intensive labour
we hardly can express it.

We're not the only ones either, teams from all over the region flocked
to Tremblant today to get a serious head start on this seasons competition
training.

Relative to other Opening Days, we had about triple the coverage
of an average season's beginnings, so there too, a great way to
kick-off the season.

Combine all these advantages with Warm, but not too warm,
spectacularly Sunny sky's and you've got a "Once In A Blue Moon"
Opening day that we'll be talking about for a long time.

As previously mentioned, the snow surface quality is very "Spring" like,
but in our experience, never difficult to move through, around or over.

Shred This... Not hard to do at all as you can clearly see here, below
on Beauvallon Haut, Upper.

As we stated in our introductory Apres Ski remarks, there were a few
icy bits. The most pronounced one we found was the centre of the steep
pitch on La Traverse which was scraped off by traffic as it was the only
exit/run-out from Lowell Thomas so everyone had to transit through this
10 metre wide section and by afternoon it was showing the effects. There were
turnable wide bands of soft snow down it's edges though, so if your skills
include the ability to make lots of tight fall-line turns, you could pick either
side and get down with very little fuss.

The North Park is back in business with a reconfigured line consisting
of mainly boxes, rails and one "M" size kicker at the very bottom. The
top is now box features.

More in the Morning...

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