As much as I enjoy daydreaming about the frosty spray of fresh powder in my face, it just doesn't have quite the immediacy in mid-August as it does in, say, November – when the winter season is right around the corner. In the midst, however, of one of my recent midsummer flights-o-fancy, I remembered a ski country event that, not coincidentally, occurs just at that mid-November stokepoint (yes, stokepoint is a word... now):
Warren Miller's annual cinematic celebration of snow!
If you haven't seen a Warren Miller film before, it's two hours of pure exhilaration, featuring world class skiers and riders flying down steep couloirs, floating through neck-deep powder, and performing ridiculously stupid aerial acrobatics at high speed. In a word, you can't walk out of the theater and not be primed for the upcoming season. Dates for the Flynn Theater shows in Burlington are tentatively scheduled for November 21 and 22, so mark your calendar and dust off those slopeside reveries. Trust me, no one will be the wiser.
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