Patrick
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Last day at Tremblant and first day of the year for me.
Temps at mid-mountain in the shade was 20c.
No one wanted to come ski with me. After last Friday at Fortune (11th) and Sunday at Avalanche (13th) with the part or the entire family. This meant I could ski at my own pace...and what a pace.
Instead of parking at Disneyland (South side), I drove the extra 10-15 minutes to park on the non-village north side. Once there, I decided what to wear (it was hot) and eat part of my lunch. Snow melted a lot this week, the road from Ottawa was partially flooded in some parts. Even if the snowpack had gone down, coverage was great, not wall-to-wall like the previous week. There was the odd patch on certain runs.
Started skiing after 10:30ish, Lifts running were Duncan Express (top-to-bottom North side lift) and Expo Express (bottom North) + Flying Mile Express (bottom South) and TGV (top South). The gondola was shutdown last April 13th for maintenance. April 13th was the scheduled last day, but Tremblant (to my big surprise) gave us an extra week. The crowds were thankful and present. On the menu was corn with some bumps. Joe would have been in Heaven.
Tremblant had 60 runs open out of 92. Why? Because of lifts closure on Versant Soleil (real South facing side) and the Edge side. The Lowell Thomas triple (top-North) was also closed. As suspected, I noticed at my end of day drive back detour, that the coverage was perfect at the bottom of Soleil. Coverage wouldn't have been an issue for the Edge. Okay, let's stop whining, Tremblant at least had some lifts running.
Day started off like this:
1) Banzai-Sissy Schuss (top-to-bottom North)
2) La Griffe (bottom North)
3) Marie-Claude Asselin-lower Duncan (N)
4) Cossak-Expo (Old World Cup Mogul run off Expo)(bot. N)
etc etc...Taschereau, Kandahar, McCulloch, DunZee, Grand-Prix, Expo, CBC, Duncan, Devil's River, Flying Mile, Le Tunnel, Geant, Ligne de Pente, Superieur...the only run where I didn't ski a black run was Beauvallon at one of my last runs. I skied all the open black runs, the only major blacks runs closed were real steep ZigZag and Vertige (although I saw some people poached them) + Dynamite and Ryan.
Like I mentioned to someone in the chair with me, sometimes when I ski Tremblant, I end up skiing totally different runs. Today was no different, I skied Flying Mile (lower Southside) 4-5 times which I rarely ski. This run isn't accessible when the Flying Mile Express is closed, lucky the gondola was going through maintenance. Flying Mile used to be the late season bump run back in the early 80s, when Tremblant only ran the bottom South side lift. This is a fun run, steep and some bumps. Always overlooked.
The most popular was probably Grand Prix which had 350m vertical of wall-to-wall bumps. Expo was also very popular for those who like bumps. I stopped for maybe 45 minutes at the massif summit restaurant, Le Grand Manitou. I took a small nap.
There was some slight liftlines for the HSQ, maybe 3-4 minutes at the busiest time at the Duncan Express or TGV. Caught the last chair top-to-bottom chair just prior to 4:15pm...what a day. Needless to say, I was able to catch some rays during that over 10k vert day. 8) I'm dead tired.
On the drive back, I drove up to new road up to Versant Soleil. Versant Soleil is going to be the new base village with an artificial lake and casino. The side of the mountain was divided in lots for construction. This is (again) going to be massive. This side is going to be connected with the South side village with a gondola.
I have an issue with the urbanisation of Tremblant. I don't know how many houses/condos there is on the hill and immediate areas, but it's massive. Each time I go, I notice something built on the mountain side or across Lac Tremblant. Where is it going to stop? Twenty years ago, Mont Tremblant was a fairly wild area, not anymore.
Temps at mid-mountain in the shade was 20c.
No one wanted to come ski with me. After last Friday at Fortune (11th) and Sunday at Avalanche (13th) with the part or the entire family. This meant I could ski at my own pace...and what a pace.
Instead of parking at Disneyland (South side), I drove the extra 10-15 minutes to park on the non-village north side. Once there, I decided what to wear (it was hot) and eat part of my lunch. Snow melted a lot this week, the road from Ottawa was partially flooded in some parts. Even if the snowpack had gone down, coverage was great, not wall-to-wall like the previous week. There was the odd patch on certain runs.
Started skiing after 10:30ish, Lifts running were Duncan Express (top-to-bottom North side lift) and Expo Express (bottom North) + Flying Mile Express (bottom South) and TGV (top South). The gondola was shutdown last April 13th for maintenance. April 13th was the scheduled last day, but Tremblant (to my big surprise) gave us an extra week. The crowds were thankful and present. On the menu was corn with some bumps. Joe would have been in Heaven.
Tremblant had 60 runs open out of 92. Why? Because of lifts closure on Versant Soleil (real South facing side) and the Edge side. The Lowell Thomas triple (top-North) was also closed. As suspected, I noticed at my end of day drive back detour, that the coverage was perfect at the bottom of Soleil. Coverage wouldn't have been an issue for the Edge. Okay, let's stop whining, Tremblant at least had some lifts running.
Day started off like this:
1) Banzai-Sissy Schuss (top-to-bottom North)
2) La Griffe (bottom North)
3) Marie-Claude Asselin-lower Duncan (N)
4) Cossak-Expo (Old World Cup Mogul run off Expo)(bot. N)
etc etc...Taschereau, Kandahar, McCulloch, DunZee, Grand-Prix, Expo, CBC, Duncan, Devil's River, Flying Mile, Le Tunnel, Geant, Ligne de Pente, Superieur...the only run where I didn't ski a black run was Beauvallon at one of my last runs. I skied all the open black runs, the only major blacks runs closed were real steep ZigZag and Vertige (although I saw some people poached them) + Dynamite and Ryan.
Like I mentioned to someone in the chair with me, sometimes when I ski Tremblant, I end up skiing totally different runs. Today was no different, I skied Flying Mile (lower Southside) 4-5 times which I rarely ski. This run isn't accessible when the Flying Mile Express is closed, lucky the gondola was going through maintenance. Flying Mile used to be the late season bump run back in the early 80s, when Tremblant only ran the bottom South side lift. This is a fun run, steep and some bumps. Always overlooked.
The most popular was probably Grand Prix which had 350m vertical of wall-to-wall bumps. Expo was also very popular for those who like bumps. I stopped for maybe 45 minutes at the massif summit restaurant, Le Grand Manitou. I took a small nap.
There was some slight liftlines for the HSQ, maybe 3-4 minutes at the busiest time at the Duncan Express or TGV. Caught the last chair top-to-bottom chair just prior to 4:15pm...what a day. Needless to say, I was able to catch some rays during that over 10k vert day. 8) I'm dead tired.
On the drive back, I drove up to new road up to Versant Soleil. Versant Soleil is going to be the new base village with an artificial lake and casino. The side of the mountain was divided in lots for construction. This is (again) going to be massive. This side is going to be connected with the South side village with a gondola.
I have an issue with the urbanisation of Tremblant. I don't know how many houses/condos there is on the hill and immediate areas, but it's massive. Each time I go, I notice something built on the mountain side or across Lac Tremblant. Where is it going to stop? Twenty years ago, Mont Tremblant was a fairly wild area, not anymore.
