Does any other sport get as obsessed with anticipation as skiing does? Golfers don’t, but then what’s so exciting about golf? For most it is, as the comic strop Lulu used to portray, “a good walk spoiled.” There are action videos about sailing, kiting, kayaking, or mountain biking but I don’t know of anyone who does those who goes to pre-season videos to get psyched up about the coming season. They just go, right?

So what is it about skiing that is so different? Is it the scarcity of snow? The altitude of the mountains? The silence that blankets everything the morning after the storm rages? Or are skiers and snowboarders just plain whacked?

In the end, it really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that, thank God climate change is real, so as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, winter is coming. For now, all we can do is dream of turns to come by celebrating the turns that have been done.

There is plenty of ski porn to indulge in, but the video training season wouldn’t be complete without a session with the Powderwhores. Their video offering for this season is called Elevation. Can it rise to the occasion? You be the judge.

Here’s a tease.

Powderwhore’s schedule: here or there.

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