2/15/13 Tremblant Conditions

T360 · Post by **T360** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:29 am

.

T360 Apres Ski Posted Below in "Reply"...

@ 11:00 P.M. Posted and under staged construction.

P'tit Bonheur Powder Lines????

: 2.15.13.P'tit.Bonheur.Powder.Lines.f.jpg (254.25 KiB) Viewed 2551 times

...You Bet!!!

A Great day for a lot of Experts and the Strong...

Heavily falling thick Snow, was otherwise quite demanding
for Beginners, Intermediates and even some Experts that
we know may be a bit out of shape.

------------- 8:29 A.M. Orig. Post ------------------

90(*) Open Trails on the Freshly Snowed in Slopes of Tremblant...

Before:
Yesterday....

: www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.; 2.14.13.Lac.Tremblant.Sky.Drama.Panoramic.d.jpg (282.4 KiB) Viewed 2760 times

We think this is one of the most dynamically interesting
Lac Tremblant Panoramic's we've taken. The size, shape
and movement of the clouds and shadows was mesmerizing...
one of those "You had to be there" moments...

After:
This Morning at 8:00 A.M. ....

: www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.; 2.15.13.South.Resort.Base.Snowfall.b.jpg (291.17 KiB) Viewed 2760 times

We can't show you the Mountain at this point because it's a whiteout
Snowfall and we can't see it. We can't see the top of Johannsen.

-It Snowed a whole bunch last night.
-There was a wee bit of wind with it, so there will be Drifting
in addition to the outright statistical accumulation.
-It's still snowing now.
-The Skiing Will Be Excellent...
-The Boarding on the pitches will be Excellent.
-Boarders will need to build speed on the runout's and
may need to pump the boards to traverse plateau's
-Beginners and Intermediates may find things "Thick" in places.
-Experts will think they went to Heaven...

We put the "Stone Stairs" image in because it illustrates the "Macro" picture
of how snow will be deposited in the ways that Mother Nature tends
to fill in. You can see how the sides of the stone steps have more
than the centres and if you scale that up to the nooks and crannies,
the various sides and contours of the Mountain that get shelter, are
in the lee, exposed to wind or not, you'll understand that there will
be quite a bit of variation in the way it accumulates on the Open terrain.

The temp's today are at -2 C South Base Level, so the Summit should be
around -6 or -7 C. The Wind is moderate and from the South-East, so
crossing the Summit basically from Duncan and running diagonally over
towards Beauvallon/Nansen.

The wind may have some unpredictable swirl patterns around Mountain
contours, say between Duncan and Lowell Thomas or Soleil and McCulloch,
but two thing's for sure... a) there will be drift features that exceed the stat's
and... b) there will be wind exposed areas that have less than the stat’s.

: www.tremblant360.com photo. All rights reserved.; 2.14.13.Soleil.Toboggan.Side.to.Side.Top.To.Bottom.Seamless.Winter.White.Snow.jpg (249.68 KiB) Viewed 2742 times

Above: There are virtually zero flaws in these very fine surfaces and this
Soleil sample from Toboggan is typical of about 98% of all the Open terrain.
Glitches??? sure, the odd one, but if you don't think these conditions
are excellent, you're too fussy. Tremblant is probably the best on the East Coast
right now and we should be very thankful for that.

The base surfaces are generally in very fine condition. The typical, and
incremental overnight improvements of the Grooming have already made
them very good and additional snow will obviously make them better.

We skied with Friends from Kitchener/Waterloo Ontario yesterday who
come for a week annually and their comment was "May be the best snow
conditions we've had in the past 5 years."

Keeping in mind that the subjective evaluations of any Tremblant Guests are
based on a combination of their skill levels, experience, the luck of the draw
weather conditions and any other factors you could toss in, there could be
differences of opinion, but we're in agreement on the very basic element
of "Very Fine" when describing the open Alpine terrain at Tremblant right now.

There will continue to be icy substrates in places that get a lot of wind exposure,
some steeper pitches, high traffic/wear zones, run outs etc., so you still need
to use caution on initial explorations, but compared to the overall excellence
of the Groomed terrain, any glitches will be minor in comparison.

90(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca

: Screenshot of the Official, Downloadable, PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca; Screen Shot 2013-02-15 at 10.17.17 AM.jpg (223.95 KiB) Viewed 2748 times

Based on the current rate of accumulations, we might see
an increase in the Open terrain for the weekend, possibly
even fully opened, but regardless, the new snow will
enhance all the open trails that are already very fine.

More later in Apres Ski....

Links and not-so-fine print:

http://www.tremblant.ca

http://www.tremblant.ca/mountain/winter ... port-e.htm

(*)

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 the
First 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.)

.

T360 · Post by **T360** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:15 pm

.

T360 Apres Ski .....

In tonight's Apres Ski intro way up above....

Powder Lines on P'tit Bonheur ???? Oh Yeah!!!!

This first one below may help explain what was going on
with the snowdrift lines....

While the stat's may say one thing, we can tell you for a fact that
there were large tracts of open terrain with far more.

There were some with less too, but even if they had less, the "Less" surfaces
themselves were still generally very good, just a bit wind exposed.

The above just happens to be one of the "Far More" sectors, and one
that was directly connected to the "Powder Lines" pic. at the top of
this topics page.

Perhaps one of the more amazing aspects of the "Powder Lines"
pic's was that they were shot about 10 minutes after this one
immediately below...

Definitely "Last Run"! What that means is that the snow was falling down
hard and fast enough to refresh P'tit Bonheur about every half hour. When we
spoke this morning about how there might be some unusual swirling snow
deposits around the Mountain, these above, pretty much sum that up.

It was Warm, it was Cool, all at the same time, but we never waited longer
than about 3 minutes for any lift....

Several people have commented on Duncan's trouble free last couple
couple 'o days of recent operation too, so Mountain Crews Are apparently
making positive head-way in the Duncan Quad's reliability.

The heavy snowfall covered most of the Mountain at one point or
another, and for most of the day, so tomorrow will be very good
and we anticipate a few more open trails???

.

2/15/13 Tremblant Conditions

2/15/13 Tremblant Conditions

Re: 2/15/13 Tremblant Conditions