Excusez-moi...
Is this January ? ... or November ???
P'tit Bonheur... An Alpine Dream...
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as the fresh natural snow over the base created by Mountain Crews blended
to render satin like mid-winter like carving on P'tit Bonheur.
If you were on it yesterday, you'd say it felt like a totally different day today,
better, more refined, fast, grippy and Smoooth!
Lot's more Tremblant news in prime time, full Apres Ski, coming up by 9:00 P.M.
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14(*) Open Trails on the refreshed surfaces
of Tremblant.
Refreshed from both Mother Nature and Mountain Crews.
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if you can.
The statistical accumulation of Natural Snow is 4 CM or 2 inches.
Due to the vigorous wind that came yesterday at this time(we thought
things might be "Gusty" compared to the forecast, but it was actually
howling at times), there will be drifting factors that will benefit leeward
sectors of terrain today.
It's going to be an interesting day in a very good way because
there's just so much open terrain to explore for this early date.
Here is a sample that was taken at around 3:10 P.M. on Versant Nord,
the North Side, La Traverse, at "Last Run". We're looking back up the
descending left hand side just below the half way mark and you can pretty
clearly see what's gone on with drifting accumulation in about 2 hours!
Scroll --->>> sideways for complete image detail.
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$100.00 Bucks she has really fresh sharp edges though, as much of the
centre portion of this run had a very slick, icy portion that was being
kept scraped clean by less skilled users that were skidding down the middle.
Her good form where others were having difficulty, was only possible
with top-level edge control. In the mean-time, if your skill set included
short radius fall-line turns, you could find this very sweet powder line
on the leeward trail edge, not 5 meters away!
About 20 minutes after the pic. above, "Last Run" on the South was
also experiencing it's own fair share of new snow.
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the crest it narrows towards the runout to the Gondola and there are
moderately sized moguls that require care with speed. All the new snow
could mean an improvement in width and smoothness this morning.
Let's back up for a few moments earlier in the day which had a very
pleasant sunny component with the previous night's drop in temps.
The Saturday crowd was in a relaxed mood and typical of early
season, there were many who were quite happy to be enjoying the
moment, glad to be out on the slopes and not in any particular hurry.
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that we've come to recognize as unique to Planet Tremblant....
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training and all runs were being used for that purpose to one
degree or another.
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that there were Snow Squalls in the neighbourhood. The wind was pushing
them quickly and you could see them moving in.
That was particularly clear as you came up the Gondola at the noon hour.
More than one "Wall Of White" could be seen rapidly approaching.
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in the morning, but seeing these walls of snow squalls rushing towards you
gave promise to some quickly changing surface conditions that would benefit
from the obvious newly arriving fresh snow.
Mother Nature did not disappoint. We ran this pic below in yesterday's Apres Ski
edit and we're running it again this morning because it very clearly shows just
how much Mother Nature was adding to the mix here at Tremblant yesterday.
Check out the very cool aerodynamics around the base of the Board
in this shot.
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be had on P'tit Bonheur was nuts!
Of course the action never stops at the Lowell Thomas Sector,
North Park on "Rope Tow". We never have to wait more than a
couple of minutes to see great air!
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Starts out at -7C, and rises to around -4C with moderate
Westerly Winds moving across the Summit from the Soleil
zone towards Beauchemin. Riding up Lowell Thomas you may
feel it as you approach the Summit. On TGV, it will be more
or less at your back.
Sunny, Snowy, Overcast, Bright... you name it, highly variable
and quick changing sky patterns that may include snow squalls
and/or blowing surface snow. There will be leeward drifting
around contours or Trail edges and if the wind is quiet even
briefly, if it's sunny you'll be able to feel solar energy.
Much like yesterday, keeping the wind out with properly
sealed outer layers together with overlaps at wrist, waist
and neck will yield the most comfort.
14(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable PDF,
Trail and Grooming status report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
Please note: there are some grid line anomalies in the PDF
and the Snowmaking column is not being shown. There definitely
is Snowmaking in multiple sectors.
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We've got a fantastic introduction to this winter's season
and you're missing a great opportunity if you don't take advantage of it.
See Below to "Reply" for Special "Looking Forward",
"2+2" Adding up the evidence...
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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