{"id":1621,"date":"2014-01-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2017-09-22T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:37:47","slug":"day-2-skiing-in-mont-tremblant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 &ndash; Skiing in Mont-Tremblant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We awoke this morning to a very nice day for skiing.\u00a0 It was partly cloudy and about minus 2 degrees Celsius.\u00a0 Below are some photos from our room window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/MontTremblant2014\/P1132653copy.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/MontTremblant2014\/P1132655copy.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a nice breakfast in the lounge, we got dressed up in our ski gear and head out to the slopes.\u00a0 We\u2019re staying at the only hotel with ski-in\/ski-out access, and it is very convenient.\u00a0 We put our boots on in our room, take the elevator down to the terrace level to pick up our skis, walk out the back door and ski down to the lifts.<\/p>\n<p>I should apologize in advance for the quality of most of the photos and videos to follow.\u00a0 While I did bring my good camera with me on this trip, I didn\u2019t not carry it while skiing.\u00a0 So, most of the photos posted on this trip will be taken with my Blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>Because this is only Nadine\u2019s third time skiing, we started by skiing a number of runs in the beginner area to get some practise.\u00a0 Below is a short video clip of Nadine skiing!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQwd_x_16hk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAfter Nadine was feeling confident in her abilities, we took the gondola to the top of the mountain to try a run.\u00a0 Here we are about to head down the mountain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"Mont-Tremblant-20140113-00155\" alt=\"Mont-Tremblant-20140113-00155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/MontTremblant2014\/MontTremblant2014011300155.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Part way down, I stopped to capture this photo looking out over Lac Tremblant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"Mont-Tremblant-20140113-00157\" alt=\"Mont-Tremblant-20140113-00157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/MontTremblant2014\/MontTremblant2014011300157.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we skied this run last year, it took about 2 hours to get off the mountain.\u00a0 This year, on only her third time skiing, Nadine managed to make it down in about 45 minutes, and even faster on subsequent runs.\u00a0 After getting down, we went back up for another run before getting some lunch.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, we headed back up out for another couple of runs down the mountain.\u00a0 It was a very nice day of skiing, and Nadine is getting much better at it.\u00a0 At the end of the day, just before the lifts were closing, I went up the mountain once on my own just to get in a quick trip on an advanced run before returning to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the hotel, we got cleaned up, headed over to the lounge for dinner, and then went for a swim in the heated outdoor pools for an hour or so.\u00a0 It started to rain a bit while we were swimming, but it was still very nice to soak our muscles in the hot water after a day of skiing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We awoke this morning to a very nice day for skiing.\u00a0 It was partly cloudy and about minus 2 degrees Celsius.\u00a0 Below are some photos from our room window. 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