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59(*) Open Trails on the progressively recovering
very slightly more white, slopes of Tremblant.
Please accept our apologies for very late report this A.M. as we
have continued out of office chores. Pg. Under construction now
and through the day, but much of what was in Mountain Restoration
efforts yesterday is in essence, ongoing today.
Use the "Previous Topic" button, upper screen right, to review that
if you already haven't gone through it.
Much of the value of this, and any diary, or our Journal du Jour,
is in the identification of trends. Trends can often be best revealed
through a forensic style examination of the evidence contained
in the diary, and of course in our case whatever developments are
taking place on the Mountain, especially after any major or pivotal
events, so we encourage all patient readers here to scroll through
a few days to get a sense of the big picture.
But First....
Todays Positive Message Report is brought to you by....
From Monday's Restoration Pic. File
Tremblant's Grooming/Packing Crews:
- www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.
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- www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.
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Looking at today's Official Trail PDF tells a lot of the story...
59(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
- Screenshot of the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
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PDF, Above, at the bottom of the document can be applied to
comparison document below.
The story in comparison tells more, including trends in day to day
changes, so we're going to entitle this 2 part examination(following below)...
1) "The Lord Giveth, And The Lord Taketh Away"
2) "Crop Rotation"
Givens....
With some where around 500 Groomed acres of terrain there's
a lot of surface to cover and much of it needs to be covered in
multiple passes in order to render a fine enough particle size
to be practically skiable/boardable.
A Skilled Operator and a Grooming Machine can cover about 4
acres an hour. That will be an average for open terrain that
can be covered in overlapping circuits going 'round and 'round.
In our opinion, it takes longer per acre if they are working on
the very narrowest of trails where there is much back and forth
over ground that is difficult to manoeuvre on. If an area requires
multiple passes that may reduce the acres per hour.
Below is a notated comparison between yesterday and today's
Official, Downloadable, Trail and Grooming PDF's.
Scroll---->>> for complete document.
- Screenshots of the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
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and "Grooming" in that order.
Recalling the Title Themes for this comparison....
1) "The Lord Giveth, and The Lord Taketh Away."
The content of the list changes from day to day during
the recovery effort, hence the "Giveth" and Taketh Away" part....
2) "Crop Rotation"
As individual trails go through the phases of restoration, they may
sit for a period of time before Machines equipped with the tools
for the next phase are available to get there, hence the
"Crop Rotation" part, which is more of a general reference to
how a farmer might manage the land with the equipment available.
The bottom line on all this is that we need to be patient while
Mountain Crews work through the huge logistical challenges
presented by the recent rain/thaw that encompassed practically
speaking, the whole North East of the continent.
There is one little Gem in the comparison above...
... a little nugget of excellence, and an indicator of
significant progress in the restoration process that
just happens to be a personal favourite of some of the
Tremblant360 Crew....
You Know Things Are Getting A Lot Better When
They Groom and then Open...
Banzai and Marie-Claude Asselin on Versant Nord!
These two gorgeous, picturesque, circa 1948 narrow previous Poma/T-Bar
lift lines are what we might like to think of as "Canaries In the Coal Mine",
indicators of the healthy status of a specific area or zone, in this case
the North, Top Half, Summit Sector.
Today's Conditions will represent an incremental improvement over
yesterday in both quantity and quality. Additional Quality will also
occur with Ski and Board traffic that both contribute towards finer
and finer top layers.
Here is a fair amount of what we have and it's
very nicely skiable too.
- www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.
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Plus...
1 Cm of new snow is not a whole lot, but way better than none.
More is expected, so any natural Snowfall not only enhances the
overall recovery, but any significant amounts like those shown as
potential/forecasted towards the weekend, could be the tipping
points that take us back to Pure Winter conditions.
Today's Weather... -2C under sunny sky's with moderate South winds.
Getting quite cool as we head for the weekend... at least that's what the
forecasters are saying....
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You can find this Today...
...and more if it Tomorrow!
Links and not-so-fine print:
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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