I hadn't been to Tremblant since January 2000, so I was curious to see what had changed in the past decade plus. We were expecting to either pay for close-in parking or take a shuttle from a far-flung lot, but neither turned out to be the case -- we grabbed a free spot right in front of the village entrance.
I was surprised that VW has never done this type of branding at other resorts with Cabriolet lifts (or maybe they have and I didn't notice):
The good news was that on-piste conditions were pretty good: an inch or two of overnight snow on top of a hardpack base that was easy to put an edge into, except on the steeper pitches. I took a few runs into the trees on the North Side and the snow there was quite good with a decent base.
The bad news was that there was a thick fog bank hanging over the upper half of the mountain the entire day, which really hampered visibility and prevented me from taking any decent photos. You can see it here as Juliet skis to the bottom of the TGV lift:
Tremblant's 2,100-foot vertical felt legit to us, and we liked the long runs. Here's the wife toward the bottom of the South Side with Lake Tremblant below:
Even though we weren't there during a holiday period, I was amazed by how many people were on the hill -- anecdotally, the majority seemed to be from the UK. Tremblant must be doing a phenomenal job marketing the resort to anglophones from across the pond. Still, the mountain has a ton of uphill capacity, most of it high speed, so everything was ski-on.
On our way to St. Jovite for an apres-ski coffee, we drove past late, lamented Gray Rocks. Even though it only had 600-ish vertical feet, the terrain looks kinda fun from the road:
We wrapped up our Tremblant visit with a stop at the former train station in St. Jovite, which is now inhabited by a restaurant.
I was surprised that VW has never done this type of branding at other resorts with Cabriolet lifts (or maybe they have and I didn't notice):
The good news was that on-piste conditions were pretty good: an inch or two of overnight snow on top of a hardpack base that was easy to put an edge into, except on the steeper pitches. I took a few runs into the trees on the North Side and the snow there was quite good with a decent base.
The bad news was that there was a thick fog bank hanging over the upper half of the mountain the entire day, which really hampered visibility and prevented me from taking any decent photos. You can see it here as Juliet skis to the bottom of the TGV lift:
Tremblant's 2,100-foot vertical felt legit to us, and we liked the long runs. Here's the wife toward the bottom of the South Side with Lake Tremblant below:
Even though we weren't there during a holiday period, I was amazed by how many people were on the hill -- anecdotally, the majority seemed to be from the UK. Tremblant must be doing a phenomenal job marketing the resort to anglophones from across the pond. Still, the mountain has a ton of uphill capacity, most of it high speed, so everything was ski-on.
On our way to St. Jovite for an apres-ski coffee, we drove past late, lamented Gray Rocks. Even though it only had 600-ish vertical feet, the terrain looks kinda fun from the road:
We wrapped up our Tremblant visit with a stop at the former train station in St. Jovite, which is now inhabited by a restaurant.
