24h Tremblant Event

This years 24h ski event for Charles Bruneau has recieved over $1,800 000.00 in donations.  This is defineately something the resort can be proud of.   This event always brings tons of people to Tremblant and usually kick starts the season.

For me personally, I have been to every 24h event so far and if I am not working during the event or just there for support, I love being part of it.   This year the media coverage was impressive, I was surprised how beefed up it was in comparison to the previous years.   For the first time they decided to stream the event live which I happen to watch at my condo when I had enough of the cold. Friday night I watched the live shows and was impressed with the quality of the stream.  They happen to show Sean Hummel (real estate agent for Playground) race down with his head cam live which was interesting for those people who couldn’t be part of the actual race.

If I were to say anything about the event is it seemed to have less people than the previous years.  Aside from the start of the race at noon on Saturday where everyone seemed to be there, throughout the week-end I kept asking myself where is everyone.  Don’t get me wrong, the resort had lots of stuff going on but it seemed to be lacking with the crowds.  My assumption would be that people might not have come up thinking we didn’t have any snow, which wasn’t the case.  Tremblant really exceeded peoples expectation on the snow making front.

I was also quite disappointed with the music this year.  They had decent bands but for such a big event, they should bring in bigger names or at least bands that can bring a crowd.  I was quite happy that Too Many Cooks made an appearance as I used to see them when I was younger.   Having the radio announcers from NRJ hop on stage and sing their version of an Elton John song was a bit amateur and a bit karaoke like.  I”m sure they had a blast singing with their friends but for me to stand outside in the cold you better make me dance to keep warm.  The dj at the Plaza had more people in front of him as his music was much more lively.  I am not sure who they are trying to cater too musically but I thought it was a definite miss on their part and it seemed I was not the only one sharing this opinion.

The event this year seemed more corproate and media driven than usual which is a good think but it would have been nice to have more of a  community feel which its had in the past years.  Maybe it was just the turnout but I hope the grass roots nature of having this in Tremblant is not lost.

Another success for the 24h and for a wonderful cause.  See you at the 24h of Cycling in the summer.