We drove to Tremblant Friday night in driving rain the whole way. In the higher elevations around Ste-Agathe and Ste-Adele-des-Monts it clearly had snowed, but was rain as we passed through. By the time descended to where we turned off of 117, the ground was bare again. <BR> <BR>During check-in we learned that it had snowed all day on the upper mountain and rained down below. No matter, for skiing is only available from mid-mountain up. Things were looking good. <BR> <BR>It started snowing here around 4 am, and at times during the day it was positively puking. Sounds good, right? <BR> <BR>Unfortunately, the TGV broke down late Friday and needed a part to be delivered. As a result, after uploading on the gondi, the only skiing to be had this morning was on the north side via the Lowell Thomas triple chair. By 10:30 the liftlines created by the Saturday crowd skiing from only one chair became an interminable 40 minutes. My son and I returned to the condo for an early lunch in the hopes that they'd finish the repairs on the TGV. <BR> <BR>Lo and behold, they did and it made all of the difference in the world. We spent the rest of our ski day lapping the TGV, where the liftline was a tolerable 5-10 minutes. That's also got to be the quickest detachable quad I've ever ridden. <BR> <BR>Coverage was more than ample, but despite the new snow the wind howled straight up the South Side and scraped parts of the steeper runs to ice, with fluffy windblown patches in between. The edges, however, were a different story, and if you didn't mind venturing off of the snowmaking base the skiing was heavy but quite delightful. <BR> <BR>Now past midnight, the snow has stopped, the skies cleared, and tomorrow should be a fine early-season day. This morning they were reporting something like 8" new since Friday, but with the wind it was hard to tell how accurate that was. A good 4 more inches must've fallen today.