Every once-and-a-while, we take a breath of relief
because we made a morning forecast in-spite of
numerous and potential variables, and the days
experience shows that forecast to be fairly accurate.
In our opinion, everything that was open, was, for not only the
3rd. of April, but for any time in the entire season, excellent.
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across Beauchemin, and on over Axle, to Lowell Thomas.
You can see a tower for the Lowell Thomas Triple chair. You can also see
what appears to be a slight blur of detail in the foreground. That's the wind
pushing snow dust down the top of Andy-Moe at warp speed as it funnelled
and swirled across the top of the Nansen/La Crete Sector, 180 degrees
behind this scene.
We waited quite a few minutes for a break in the wind, but it did not come
on this particular lap, so off we went to ski this delectable Alpine treat.
A benefit was the continuous washing of Andy-Moe with a very fine refreshing
snow layer and super easy, very smooth carving winter surface.
Many other North Summit sectors got similar benefit.
Additional Apres Ski to follow, attached below in "Reply"...
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54(*) Open Trails on the Sunny, Crisp, Slopes of Tremblant.
Take your pick from the following:
(roughly speaking)...
A) 30 Kilometres of this:
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B) 20 Miles of this:
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all you have to remember is that...
Nothing Measures Up To The Fine Work Of This Crew....
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That would be nothing, even "warm" if it was January...
But for April 3rd, it's "Crisp".
Furthermore, it's been Crisp for about 2 days now so the
grooming efforts of Mountain crews are going to show the
accumulative benefit of refinement that always takes place
when temps are consistent over any 2 multiple(or more) of
stable ambient 24 hour temps. that don't have wild thermal
spikes of thaw.
The winter-like, below Zero of the past 2 days is exactly the kind
of temps needed to produce what we forecast with our lead-in Pictures
above, so we sincerely hope we can show you the verified Picture proof,
later on today in Apres Ski.
With a reduction in the square area of open terrain, it may even be possible
that Mountain Crews could focus more on what is open, so we really
do expect to find some remarkable skiing quality today.
If you are a regional Tremblant fan... you know what to do...
drop whatever you're doing now, toss your gear in the vehicle...
and leave for Tremblant as soon as you can.
We're on the countdown... if you miss this and you could have
been here... history will show that to be a critical error....
It's a long, long time until next November and we like to point out
that when next November comes, people will be twice as excited
about a fraction of what there is now... so make every ounce of
effort you can to be here for this historically fine wrap-up to the
2013 Spring Ski/Board Season.
Safety and Conditions Caveat:
Going from above freezing 2 days ago to below zero means that there
will be icy bits in the substrates that you will need to locate and navigate
with caution before ripping around.
Traffic on the Mountain should be light mid-week, but "Surprises"
encountered without prior exploration and at the speed that todays
surfaces will be capable of, could lead to accidents... so be careful,
be observant, and be sensible for all initial skiing and boarding
on trails you are doing for the first time today.
Today's Weather... Even though it's supposed to get up to -1C, and be
at least mostly sunny, the kicker in todays scene will be the strong and
sometimes gusty West wind. We are not sure if it could cause lift "issues",
but if it did, we'd understand. From time to time, here in St. Jovite,
it's howling.
This wind will be blowing up the Mountain on Taschereau and McCulloch
and crossing over the Summit towards Duncan, Lowell Thomas and
Beauchemin. Riding up the TGV should not be too bad with it at your back,
but the Summit crest of the Duncan Quad could see the wind tunnel effect,
so make sure your exterior shell is well sealed.
The North will be in the lee or shelter once you get below the summit
so it may hold the key to more even conditions. We won't know how
windblown the South is being affected until we get there, so fingers
crossed it's not too bad.
Regardless of any of these factors, there is going to be superb
winter-like Skiing and Boarding on the majority of surfaces at
Tremblant today and we aim to be able to tell you where and
how it is, Apres Ski.
54(*) Open Trails on the Official, Downloadable,PDF,
Trail and Grooming Status Report, Courtesy of Tremblant.ca
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The Decision Is Yours...
Miles or Kilometres....
How Far will you go to get to Tremblant?
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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