Videos of the Week 15 KW 6 - Social Beer Game

What is this white stuff that is suddenly falling from the sky? It's not... No. Pessimists like me fear that the season called "winter" will be largely absent in the northern Alps this year. Videos of the week are still available, of course, because there's always snow somewhere. For example in Sochi. Hence a video explaining how the snow is made, another from the highly respected SID explaining what these snowboarders (btw: strange creatures, in the half-tube to music, tsts) are all about. Also the making of the Valhalla Night Shred, a very dark couloir, action from the FWT and fun on artificial snow and in natural snow in the Southern Alps.

This winter isn't actually that bad. Provided you hit the right spots, winter 13/14 is actually really good. However, North Tyrol and the Feldberg are clearly not among the chosen ones so far this winter. Japan and the Southern Alps, on the other hand, are. This week's weekly video series therefore includes amateur footage from these regions. And of course all sorts of things from the land where the honey always flows.

New year, new luck! And we desperately need luck, because there's still not much to be had in terms of snow in the Northern Alps, apart from artificial snow, blisters from queuing at the lift and bruises from the scramble for the last beer at the apres-ski. At least, and this makes the VdW feel positive, there was a first really worthwhile edit from the current time frame in the weekly budget this week. The catch: the video was shot in Turkey... That's life. Nevertheless, there are a few things worth seeing and news from last season. The regulars' table of the freeski crew, True Color Films shows us something from outside and MLine proves that even plain old snow can be really fun with the right friends. And then there's Johan Johnsson. He shows us that we're just wimps and that even when there's no powder at all, the gas can stay on.