Eastern Snowboarding
First Planned Trip: Mont Tremblant
Once a year, for the past three years, I’ve repeated the following ritual:
- With some friends, I get on a bus close to midnight on a Thursday night.
- I travel overnight to a ski resort. Usually Jay Peak.
- Upon arriving bleary-eyed at about eight in the morning, I get changed and snowboard… all day.
- I vow never ever to repeat this again, telling myself that although the value is great, it’s not worth losing a night of sleep for.
- I invariably repeat this process the next year, ignorning my own vows to never repeat.
Of course, I’m repeating this ritual once again in mid-December. The destination of choice: Mont Tremblant. If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you’ve probably seen my Mont Tremblant review from last year.I’ve only been to Tremblant once, and the conditions were garbage. That said, it wasn’t the hill’s fault: I went in mid-December 2006, which was famously terrible for ski resorts, as it didn’t snow. Despite the lousy weather, I was really excited to return to Tremblant; the facilities were top-notch, and the mountain was a phenomenal size for the east coast. I’m looking forward to going back; I just hope the weather is a little more co-operative. I haven’t experienced about half of the mountain yet!
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When I was still in Texas, we used to drive out (about 12 hours) to the nearest resort overnight and immediately hit the slopes. We’ve also tried heading home immediately after getting done. All things considered, trying to head home w/out sleep was a lot more difficult than trying to cheat a night of sleep on the way out.
I feel your pain. I went to Tremblant in Dec. 2005 on one of those bus trips. It snowed a ton, unfortunately, our bus got stuck following the damn storm from Toronto to Tremblant. What normally was an 8 hour bus ride turned into 16 hours of hell. When we arrived at Tremblant, we were greeted with closed slopes and lifts due to a labour strike. Haven’t gone back since…
Has anyone been recently in Tremblant during new year’s? I am curious how the conditions are in that time.
I was there around the new year last year. The conditions were actually pretty good but this was after a lot of snow. We were kinda lucky because we went at a time during that snow “drought” last year in Toronto. I’m planning to go again this year around January 4.