jamesdeluxe
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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 decent enough: 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 part of 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.
In short, it's a great intermediate/upper-intermediate mountain. Since my wife is closer to Tremblant's target audience than me, I was trying to view the experience through my her eyes and she loved the a) terrain, b) high-speed lifts, and c) food/shopping/entertainment options in the village. If the visibility hadn't been so poor, she would have loved the views too. In short, I now understand why it's so successful.
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 afternoon with a stop at what looks like a former train station in St. Jovite (but apparently isn't), and 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 decent enough: 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 part of 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.
In short, it's a great intermediate/upper-intermediate mountain. Since my wife is closer to Tremblant's target audience than me, I was trying to view the experience through my her eyes and she loved the a) terrain, b) high-speed lifts, and c) food/shopping/entertainment options in the village. If the visibility hadn't been so poor, she would have loved the views too. In short, I now understand why it's so successful.
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 afternoon with a stop at what looks like a former train station in St. Jovite (but apparently isn't), and is now inhabited by a restaurant:
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