Things started out looking pretty good on your way
to the Summit at Tremblant today...
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The views got better at the Summit, you're just higher up,
so you can see more...
The Skiing/Boarding got "Excellent" the moment you began any descent...
and stayed virtually flawless the entire time you were on Tremblant's
magnificent slopes.
Carve This!!
There was corduroy all over Tremblant, all day long.
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open trail though, so if you found glitches, please advise. We don't think
there could be many hazards with this much snow on the ground.
They said there would be some snowmaking, and there was...
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snowmaking locations, beyond what we guessed this morning,
but they sure had the volume pumped up!
We've had a lot of Questions about the forecasted Warm Weather,
so we cooked up this Weather Network graphic and annotated it with
what we feel are the Summit Highs and Lows, Pink arrows showing
Day-time highs, Green Arrows showing Night-time lows.
As you can see the Summit's typical 4 to 5 degree cooler than base
level, could keep any plus value temps away from the Mountains
Upper regions throughout the entire time.
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around Montreal, and below that, such as Up-State Vermont and New York,
may see temp's into the low 50's F, or + 11 C, while above the line, temps
will only be even potentially "plus" for a fraction of a day, on Saturday.
Consequently, we are not concerned because this is well within/below the range
of January's normal temp fluctuations and we feel it would need to be much
warmer for much longer than this to be either disruptive or destructive.
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89(*) Open Trails on 4 sides of Tremblant with
select closures for maintenance and snowmaking upgrades.
We'll get into some detail immediately below, but first...
Here's what you get at Tremblant Today.
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When runs like McCulloch or Beauvallon Bas, Lower are off-line
with this much snow, there 's something else going on and with both
listed with daytime snowmaking, we're wondering if these two are
going to be the principle pathway for the upcoming F.I.S./Snowboard Cross.
That is just a guess.
From the Official Snow Report:
"Tremblant Resort will host a competition of Snowboard Cross
organized by the Quebec Association on January 12 and 13, 2013.
Race "Quebec Cup" and FIS race will be held. This event will be
part of the 2012-2013 Quebec Cup Circuit."
We'll see what we can find out on that.
Todays big stories have to start with yesterday because when there's this much
snow, it takes a while to work it into the surfaces and during that process,
things can be a bit challenging for everyone with the thickness of the top
layers.
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From the Summit down, yesterdays surfaces were filled with deep falling
and drifting snow.
Wheeeew... Good thing it's a "Ski Resort"! All the falling and drifting snow
made it a bit thick for beginners and intermediates and even faced experts
with challenges too.
We've got guests in visiting from Ontario, the U.K. and the U.S.A.
(Go Penn State!) and we know from the feedback as well as our own
experience that these conditions require extra focus as well as some
muscle power endurance to get through.
Below:
All the way down to the final turns on Johannsen at the South Resort Base,
thick falling snow was being joyfully ripped up by both guests and Pro's alike.
We apologize for this fuzzy, burned up, highly iPhoto'd first image below,
but when Johannsen, coming down to the resort base has this much snow
from whats's coming down during the day, it's important to help make the
point.
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how deeply will the surface permit an edge set and maintain lateral grip
without skidding out. On a very well compacted groomed surface it may
only be a couple of inches, but here, fuzzy or not, you can see it's far greater
than that. There were lots of places where it was 6, 7, up to 8 inches
or almost 20 CM's, all the while with a remarkably smooth, flat surface.
The depth this Instructor is getting above is clearly evident by the amount
of snow being displaced by the skis around the boot, and the somewhat visible
track being left, and yet Johannsen remained fairly flat right through the day.
Important:
This was typical of most of Tremblant yesterday, top to bottom, side to side.
The second one here at least is focused on the Tremblant Instructor,
but both these images are hand held long telephoto's in a snow storm and
lack elements we wished they had, particularly in the surface detail/definition
and contrast. Part of the problem is that spontaneous snap shots involve
camera deployment that's too quick for automatic settings. In those cases,
results may not be ideal, but worth a try. We were not aiming for any
"Special Effects" though.
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beginner but a 20CM, or 8 inch in soft snow is a lot more challenging and
all levels need to accommodate each other for safety, with experts yielding
to lower skills in many cases because of their greater manoeuvrability skills
in these conditions.
Yesterdays visibility was generally good for the naked eye, but there were some
squall-like zones and with goggles that are usually better for bright conditions,
things might have seemed rather lacking in contrast from behind shaded lenses.
It would have been a very good day for pure yellow lenses that enhance definition
and contrast in ambient flat grey light. We tried going with goggles raised, but
that was not practical due to the harshness on eyes.
Non-the-less, it made for some of our favourite type of "Ghostly Images" like this
one below, taken at the top of Versant Nord, Beauchemin as it looks over towards
the P'tit Bonheur access path.
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above, below, side to side, front to back, is very Ghost-like and etherial.
You have the distinct feeling of almost "Floating" in "White", and as much as
we all love the Sunny Panoramic days, this makes these Grey-White days
very special too.
Moving on...
Tremblant has some 645 Skiable Acres and 1 man in 1 machine, Groomer/Packer,
can cover roughly 4 acres an hour.
Of course, Tremblant has multiple machines and highly efficient operators, but
given the above, we need to be slightly patient while Mountain Crews work
all the new snow into the base. It is impossible, in practical terms, to be able to
cover the entire Mountain in one night shift and with snow upon snow still
coming, additional logistical challenges are being added daily.
Grooming will be prioritized though and there will be much of it dedicated to
Green runs for those who will benefit the most from Smooth, Stable Compacted
Surfaces.
We already have feedback this morning from T360 team members out for "First
Tracks" that the Grooming is "AWESOME"!
We have a visiting guest here yesterday and today who is having his first days
back on skis in 4 years and while there were challenges with the snow's thickness
in some areas, he was coping brilliantly and we found great terrain on both North
and South that he was very confident on for a great first day back. Today is
already better with the overnight grooming and as Crews catch up, it will be
increasingly refined each and every day.
Basically, now that the Christmas, New Year's Holiday Season is over, this
is the beginning of the serious Skiers/Boarders Winter Alpine Season, and
what an exceptionally fine start we have.
Within the continued scope of Mother Nature's stable Winter Weather pattern's,
Tremblant Upcoming Trip Planners have one of the best outlooks for "Excellent"
we've ever seen.
Every season is a great season for Tremblant, but this one is a cut above
average by a large degree because there's just so much very fine
Natural Snow and because the base was established very early with a long
deep frost into the Mountain to help build and retain it.
More of what you'll find at Tremblant right now...
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with moderate South Breezes that may be higher at the Summit and
crossing from Soleil towards P'tit Bonheur.
Still crisp, and very beautiful Winter.
We do have a warming trend forecast, but it is well within the
normal seasonal fluctuations of January. Currently, it has a short
predicted duration, so we'll keep an eye on that, but it will be a
lot easier to dress for over the next few days.
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89(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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"Chores", but there will be more, and we will
get out to the Mountain, and Lord willing, we'll have
a Big.Pic Apres Ski by 8:00 P.M. EST, or so.
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Please Note: Apres Ski Edit will be posted
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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.
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