i wouldn’t usually make the 6 hr drive to Tremblant for opening day, however my son has a hockey tournament in Ottawa this weekend. Therefore we decided to add a day of skiing. Despite rain the day before, conditions were relatively good for the first day of the season. Rain had transitioned to snow during the night and likely 2-3 inch fresh at the top. About 6 runs open with top to bottom on N side and top to the bottom of TGV on S side. Lots of snow under Flying Mile, but they are getting that ready for FIS Womens GS in a week and I dont see that opening until after the race. Photo of my son at the mountain..
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Funny that they still have that old (1980s?) lighted sign at the summit.
The signs certainly been there a long and continues to serve the purpose of providing lift line duration well, however the section with the temperature could use some updating as it has some malfunctioning sections in the numbers. Yesterday I was thinking it may be time for them to update some of the chairs. All thr quad lifts date back to the 90s with the exception of the new Lowell Thomas lift. Duncan should likely be replaced with a 6 pack.
Are there other ski areas in North America with real-time displays to help people strategize around sizable lift queues?
I've mentioned my memory from many moons ago of @Marc Guido and crew at Alta having a pro-level discussion on a chair about how to avoid "map readers" that entailed several well-thought-out steps. A Tremblant sign wasn't necessary -- they had that place figured out.
I have seen it on resort apps, however not other signs. 85% of Tremblant's terrain is also accessible from the summit, therefore the sign placement is very helpful to determine where to go.Are there other ski areas in North America with real-time displays to help people strategize around sizable lift queues?
I've mentioned my memory from many moons ago of @Marc Guido and crew at Alta having a pro-level discussion on a chair about how to avoid "map readers" that entailed several well-thought-out steps. A Tremblant sign wasn't necessary -- they had that place figured out.
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Not that I've used them really but I know over the years Breck, Copper and Vail have had embedded lights in the big on mountain trail maps in a couple spots for open/closed and long vs short lift lines (eg each lift on a few of the big trail maps top or bottom will have red, green and yellow lights embedded). No where near as detailed as the list shown for Tremblant, but enough to know what lifts are open and which have the long lines. Probably all shifting to Apps at this point if/when upgrades and maint are required.
Also Super Gauge lift at Winter Park has electronic displays built into the safety bar that flip through screens showing open closed trails, lift line estimates, I-70 drive time estimates, etc...
I am back at Tremblant. Its about 6 inch of light fluff on top of a firm base from the rain on Friday. Overall skiing is generally good. Today they got most of the glades and natural snow bump runs open. It was cold this morning at -20c. They started snowmaking on expo yesterday afternoon and in one night at these temps the piles are already 20 feet deep.
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They have these in a few areas. Likely for the power to support lifts, snowmaking, lodge, etc. i dont think the soil is solid rock in this area. Lots of natural snow terrain opened today. (Entire edge area). On opening it was all untracked of about 6” on top of a firm rain crust, preventing breaking through to ground or rocks, from last week. Based upon how far my pole could go down, base is about 3 feet in the natural snow areas.
As I was driving back home today, I noticed all power lines running along the roads in the entire region look exactly the same with wooden poles as those on the ski area. Therefore they are likely Hydro-Quebec lines and not maintained by Altera.Good memory! It's interesting that industrial Tremblant has the wooden low-hanging power lines from our youth while old-school GP has modern-looking ones.
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Now if only they'd let you ski the whales! I could have a lot of fun with that.
Sorry, I wasn't implying that power lines are maintained by ski areas (I don't know, are they?). Was just noting the visual incongruity of a place like Tremblant built to handle big crowds that has pockets of antiquated infrastructure. I haven't been in 15 years so maybe there's more (like the 1980s lift-status sign at the summit)?
Conditions look good!
Yes if it was the water content I saw in Beaver Creek in 2015. Usually those manmade whales are super thick base building snow.
I am back at Tremblant. Yesterday was winter conditions with temps in teens to low 20’s. Soft snow with some icy patches from the rain about 3 weeks ago. Today was a little warmer with temps getting to the low 30’s. A few photos from yesterday. 101/102 trails open. Natural snow base is 3+ feet. Glades are skiing nicely.
Interesting. Vermont must have had some serious rain/freeze. Stowe was only half open over the weekend due to advanced runs being closed for icy conditions. Jay was close to 100% though.
Last week Thursday there was a storm with Tremblant being on the edge of the rain snow border, receiving primarily snow. Likely southern Vermont recieved rain, then hard freeze Friday. Here, there has been about 2 feet since last significant rainfall. Today should go to full spring conditions with temps warming to the low 40s.
Isn't this actually noteworthy for the northeast at the very end of March (especially compared to the horror stories coming out of the west)? Middlebury had a similar natural snowbase last week 150 miles south of Tremblant.
Current Mansfield Stake depth is 73 inches, one inch above normal. I recall JSpin saying an overall 40 inch depth is what’s needed for Vermont tree skiing and that’s it usually there Jan-Mar. Outside northern Vermont I’d say 3+ foot base in lift served ski areas at the end of March is unusual.