KustyTheKlown
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tremblant was pretty rad overall. it's amazing how much snow there is north of montreal. huge banks on the sides of the roads. just looks and feels like winter. headed to the edge first. the main top to bottom glade skiers left is pretty sweet. lots of unmapped glades i kept popping into as well, especially off of the duncan chair. pretty jam packed day of skiing, 7 hours, and >20k feet. would have cleared 30k if not for the crowds, which were somewhat substantial. apparently its quebec school vacation week.
only negative - two lifts broke down. i was waiting on the singles line for duncan, and expo chair was stopped when i got there. about 5 minutes after i got to duncan they closed expo and expo's entire line came barrelling for duncan. lots of chaos and line cutting and i almost got into a fight with some french frogs who tried to cut the singles queue. so that created a major clusterfuck because those two lifts are the only way up from that base and it was a busy day. then towards the end of the day, i was on line for the chair on the frontside that starts at mid mountain and goes to the summit, and the same shit happened.
soleil side has some really good skiing, and also some "hike to" stuff under the lift that looks real fun, as well as some gnarly western style cliffy terrain sort of near there too. it's "hike to" because you have to ski down into a really huge gully and then climb out in order to get to the stuff i'm referring to. and not like side step with your skis on. you have to full on take the skis off and climb up a pretty hefty and nearly vertical bootpack hill. it was definitely tracked tho and people definitely do it and i doubt it's frowned upon or a pass pulling offense, because it was substantially tracked and is right under the chair. looked fun but didnt want to deal with the hiking, wanted to maximize my downhill ski time since i was only doing one day in quebec. anyone have any intel on that terrain under soleil towards the bottom?
how cool is that tiny old school apls-ish soup and snack and beer hut midway down soleil tucked into the woods? pretty great.
i skied the hardest stuff on their trail map and never felt the fear, but had a great day and would go back. i cleared 500k tracked vertical. i probably truly skied 500k around day 22-25. lots of days the phone dies in the cold and hours go untracked
Bolton was what I expected - limited open terrain and sketchy surfaces. but, the wilderness chair hasn't opened all season, and it's long and strenuously hikeable from the vista chair, so I decided to enjoy the sun and have a big hike. ended up in 1500 vertical of untracked glades. when i finally popped out of the woods after the hike, i ran into two guys who had just skinned up, singing US Blues. the grateful dead and skiing are pretty much the most compatible thing ever. A little bit of a top crust layer but enjoyably skiable. skied everything open off of vista, and mostly everything closed off vista (preacher, cobrass, and the two glades over there). timberline is too low and there is barely any cover on anything except for the liftline. poking into the woods over there was no bueno. Had fun and was glad to use my voucher and sell an extra voucher for $20.
embedding never works for me, so here's an album with a few shots. check out canadian jerry (gerard?) in his peacoat. all conditions pics are of bolton (one of vista glades in good shape, glades near preacher in bad shape, view from top of wilderness). tremblant i was too busy skiing powder, only a road shot approaching the mountain, and gerard.
http://imgur.com/a/GsOqS/all
only negative - two lifts broke down. i was waiting on the singles line for duncan, and expo chair was stopped when i got there. about 5 minutes after i got to duncan they closed expo and expo's entire line came barrelling for duncan. lots of chaos and line cutting and i almost got into a fight with some french frogs who tried to cut the singles queue. so that created a major clusterfuck because those two lifts are the only way up from that base and it was a busy day. then towards the end of the day, i was on line for the chair on the frontside that starts at mid mountain and goes to the summit, and the same shit happened.
soleil side has some really good skiing, and also some "hike to" stuff under the lift that looks real fun, as well as some gnarly western style cliffy terrain sort of near there too. it's "hike to" because you have to ski down into a really huge gully and then climb out in order to get to the stuff i'm referring to. and not like side step with your skis on. you have to full on take the skis off and climb up a pretty hefty and nearly vertical bootpack hill. it was definitely tracked tho and people definitely do it and i doubt it's frowned upon or a pass pulling offense, because it was substantially tracked and is right under the chair. looked fun but didnt want to deal with the hiking, wanted to maximize my downhill ski time since i was only doing one day in quebec. anyone have any intel on that terrain under soleil towards the bottom?
how cool is that tiny old school apls-ish soup and snack and beer hut midway down soleil tucked into the woods? pretty great.
i skied the hardest stuff on their trail map and never felt the fear, but had a great day and would go back. i cleared 500k tracked vertical. i probably truly skied 500k around day 22-25. lots of days the phone dies in the cold and hours go untracked
Bolton was what I expected - limited open terrain and sketchy surfaces. but, the wilderness chair hasn't opened all season, and it's long and strenuously hikeable from the vista chair, so I decided to enjoy the sun and have a big hike. ended up in 1500 vertical of untracked glades. when i finally popped out of the woods after the hike, i ran into two guys who had just skinned up, singing US Blues. the grateful dead and skiing are pretty much the most compatible thing ever. A little bit of a top crust layer but enjoyably skiable. skied everything open off of vista, and mostly everything closed off vista (preacher, cobrass, and the two glades over there). timberline is too low and there is barely any cover on anything except for the liftline. poking into the woods over there was no bueno. Had fun and was glad to use my voucher and sell an extra voucher for $20.
embedding never works for me, so here's an album with a few shots. check out canadian jerry (gerard?) in his peacoat. all conditions pics are of bolton (one of vista glades in good shape, glades near preacher in bad shape, view from top of wilderness). tremblant i was too busy skiing powder, only a road shot approaching the mountain, and gerard.
http://imgur.com/a/GsOqS/all
