Well, turns out that in the Tremblant municipal area, they introduce a natural biological pesticide. On our tax bill, there's a small charge for "contre-moustique". So in this wooded, heavily laked region, you'd expect a ton of bugs but we simply don't get them. Venture too far from Tremblant, and all bets are off, but it's pretty good closer to town.
So, if you're considering a spring trip to Tremblant, make the trip knowing that you won't need to invest too heavily in Off.
May 18 2012 update: Enjoying Victoria Day weekend up here. We spent the day transplanting small trees and shrubs in the garden and woods, which is prime bug territory. No issues!
June 22 2012 update: A quick Porter flight for the weekend. Same as above, very few bugs!
July 6 2012 update: OK, the black flies were out. On our property (in Tremblant proper) the flies were a tolerable nuisance, manageable with bug spray. We tried hiking in the Domaine St. Bernard, and the black flies were much worse. Still not as bad as I've experienced in Ontario, but enough that we were discouraged from venturing too far into the woods. But this experience reinforces my point above: bugs aren't too bad within the municipal region of Mont Tremblant, and worse farther afield.
August 2 2012 update: Bugs gone.
Overall 2013 update: I can now say with certainty that the Mont-Tremblant area is far less buggy than the outlying areas. We golfed at a couple of courses south of highway 117 and it was bug city. I wore zero bug spray on my August hike of Mont-Tremblant mountain, and that was about 2.5 hours in the woods!
June 2016 update: Another un-buggy spring thus far, a fact highlighted by an article in the local Tremblant Express that praised the municipality for spraying the nearby wetland with biological larvicide.
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