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  1. Frankontour

    Mont St-Bruno - (QC) - Oct 29, 2007

    This evening was my first skiing for the 2007-08 ski season... I went to Mt St-Bruno, just a few kilometers away from Montreal. they blew much of snow this morning, so after leaving job, I went with my ski buddy at the mountain. It was passed 6PM when we reached the ski area, but the gates were...
  2. Frankontour

    Quebec opens...

    If we can talk about an "opening"... Mt Edouard, in Saguenay Lac St-Jean was open, this weekend, with the beginner hills, with the huge snow accumulations from 2 weeks ago. It was more a snowpark than some normal turns, but still. Actually, I'm wondering though if I'm going to consider it...
  3. Frankontour

    Woodbury and the East opens !

    I guess this morning ;)
  4. Frankontour

    Mt Alta (Quebec) - October 29, 2006

    First ski day of the season for me, today, at Mt Alta in the Laurentians. It was a big surprise this morning, as we thought only some rain would fall on the ground overnight and this morning, but finally not, when I woke up this morning, there was obviously 12" of fresh snow at St-Donat (la...
  5. Frankontour

    Silverton again !

    1000 words a few other pics are available on http://www.silvertonmountain.com After the powder days at Fortress Mtn and Timberline Lodge last weekend, it looks like this fall will give us some great surprises (at least to see on the internet if stuck in eastern Canada lol)
  6. Frankontour

    Timberline Lodge - august 1, 3 and 4 !

    Here is a little wrap up of my 3 last days on Mt Hood, last week. (tuesday 1st, thursday 3rd and friday 4th) (sorry I'm a little bit late !) We got plenty of sun for our 3 last days on the mountain. On 2 of them, we even hiked at the end of the day, on the snowfield/glacier just above the...
  7. Frankontour

    Video - Timberline Lodge july end / early august

    Sorry for the lack of reports in the last days... we were concentrated on the video of our trip. The part one is now in line. It's the general video of our trip to Timberline Lodge. Another video will come in the next days, showing more the backcountry and the White River Glacier. I hope you'll...
  8. Frankontour

    Timberline Lodge - OR - July 31, 2006

    Today was our first real day at the mountain, with the closure yesterday due to sleet and freezing rain on the mountain... Despite the freezing rain, the conditions were amazing today. A little bit hard early in the morning, but it changed to some very nice corn snow by the mid morning... We...
  9. Frankontour

    St-Sauveur - april 30th

    Way too much snow to be the end... but it was... the last day of the season in the province I enjoyed quite a nice afternoon, with weather closing on the 70s. The snow was nice, the West 70 was super well covered, although the Nordique was closing on the end in several spots. No walking...
  10. Frankontour

    The end of 2005-06 in the east...

    Killington is closing in a few hours... with the Cascade having more snow than Superstar St-Sauveur closed sunday with a ton of snow... to install fastly some new attractions in the waterpark just between West 70 and Nordique (the 2 survivor trails) Ste-Anne closed sunday with the glades open...
  11. Frankontour

    Snow continues to be dumped on Gaspesia... 14" today

    A little follow up of the situation in the province : Since our visit in early february, Val D'Irene in Gaspesia has received something like 10 feet of snow and nothing has melt up to now. Today, they have received another 14" and I guess that the actual snowstorm could leave out there another...
  12. Frankontour

    Shefford, QC, march 4 - 20-30" deep powder

    I didn't think that there was so much new snow, at Shefford... what a surprise it was to enjoy some powder up to the hips in the glades of the upper part of the mountain. The lower mountain was really poor in snow, though. Some guys from ZoneSki have cleared a new mountainside, this summer...
  13. Frankontour

    Avalanches inbound in Gaspesia last weekend

    I'm not sure how look the snow conditions in new england actually, but here there is about 0 natural snow in the townships, while there is a TON of snow in the laurentians, in the snowbelt, but covered by a big crust of ice :( Hovewer, looks like a bunch of people of our people from Zsk are...
  14. Frankontour

    20" deep of "champagne" powder... Video time!

    Hi you all... sorry if I was very quiet the last weeks.... lot of work at job + on ZS... Here is my video of last weekend at La Réserve. I know most of you have already seen a lot of pics of powder, chutes, cliffs, glades, etc of this mountain, but I think this is a seriously good video to...
  15. Frankontour

    MSS to open tomorrow saturday nov 12th

    Mont Saint-Sauveur is seriously talking about an opening tomorrow morning. It's not sure at 100%, but with the temperatures below freezing point this afternoon + the cold weather of last night and the coming night, they're trying to open as soon as tomorrow morning. Cool :) (oops, just seen...
  16. Frankontour

    meanwhile in the north...

    Just as we missed a 8" snowstorm here (which finally felt in water), I knew today that the Valinouët, in Saguenay Lac St-Jean received a lot of snow in the last days and looks like there is a snow base of more than 18" actually... hummm, sounds great ! We should have some pics of the mountain...
  17. Frankontour

    A video from Sunday at Killington

    Hey, here is the video of Chris for last sunday at the big K ! Enjoy ;) http://www.zoneski.com/galerie2/displayimage.php?p=1272
  18. Frankontour

    Killington on sunday !

    I'm sure Marc won't believe it before I post some pics of me on the mountain, but yes, I'm going to cross the US border this evening, to ski at Killington with some friends tomorrow ! I'm sure the best day to ski there was today, but my friends were not available, so it's going to be tomorrow...
  19. Frankontour

    WILDCAT OPENS FRIDAY !!!!

    Sorry Max (who wrote it first, at the end of another conversation) I think this deserve a whole thread. WILDCAT IS OPENING FRIDAY with the Tomcat Chairlift and a few trails. Really incredible ! We may head there for sunday, but it's to confirm, because we can't go before sunday and we don't...
  20. Frankontour

    Snow in Quebec !

    There is a few ski areas here which received some snow in the last hours. This morning, the top part of Tremblant was fairly white, even though the top webcam doesn't work :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Also, the Valinouët, in Saguenay Lac St-Jean received 2" of snow at its base and...
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