CarvCanada
August 15th, 2004, 12:27 PM
Plans are underway for another massive expansion of Tremblant mountain, the biggest mountain in the East, 90 minutes North of Montreal.
Intrawest, the company responsible for putting up condo villages at many golf and ski resorts, bought up Tremblant in the late 90's and constructed a huge "family oriented" European looking village with restauraunts, bigass hotels, condos hidden all over the mountain, golf stuff, concert halls, swimming pools, movie theater etc. etc. in order to attract young American families from the East Coast to ski.
Back in 1990 (I was only 4 years old!) Tremblant was a pretty small skiing village where pretty much only core skiers skied and it was an awesome mountain.
Now it's giganormous and it's still an awesome mountain, but jam packed to the brim with snow plowers and side scrapers during most of the winter, revealing deadly boiler plate everywhere, or just clogging up the works. Somehow it doesn't feel right to come down the mountain and line up in this HUGE line going through a town where there's movie theaters around you... there used to be just trees :( I always used to stay on the North side where you could pretend you're in the middle of nowhere in North Quebec and all you could see were spruce trees and good grooming... but now the plans are to make hugeass villages there too.
The total investment is 1$ BILLION!!!! It's going to be huge. Even the Provincial government is putting in 50 million for roads etc.
They only plan to dig a few more trails despite the huge capicity increase in Condos, and likely big advertising campaigns, so Tremblant is going to really really suck during holidays and weekends, but it's going to be AWESOME when it's abandoned on Thursdays :)
Intrawest, the company responsible for putting up condo villages at many golf and ski resorts, bought up Tremblant in the late 90's and constructed a huge "family oriented" European looking village with restauraunts, bigass hotels, condos hidden all over the mountain, golf stuff, concert halls, swimming pools, movie theater etc. etc. in order to attract young American families from the East Coast to ski.
Back in 1990 (I was only 4 years old!) Tremblant was a pretty small skiing village where pretty much only core skiers skied and it was an awesome mountain.
Now it's giganormous and it's still an awesome mountain, but jam packed to the brim with snow plowers and side scrapers during most of the winter, revealing deadly boiler plate everywhere, or just clogging up the works. Somehow it doesn't feel right to come down the mountain and line up in this HUGE line going through a town where there's movie theaters around you... there used to be just trees :( I always used to stay on the North side where you could pretend you're in the middle of nowhere in North Quebec and all you could see were spruce trees and good grooming... but now the plans are to make hugeass villages there too.
The total investment is 1$ BILLION!!!! It's going to be huge. Even the Provincial government is putting in 50 million for roads etc.
They only plan to dig a few more trails despite the huge capicity increase in Condos, and likely big advertising campaigns, so Tremblant is going to really really suck during holidays and weekends, but it's going to be AWESOME when it's abandoned on Thursdays :)