Videos of the Week 11 KW 02 | The Northern Alps non-winter

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.

Let someone else say that journalists have an easy life. Fishing the best videos from the web once a week, he said. It's not work, he said. There's so much material, he said. And there's always snow, he said. If only there had been, you have to admit it here. As there's still not really any snow, or if there is, there's too much, there's the pure truth in the form of online videos this week. And the videos on the net aren't getting any better! Lest you think, dear readers, that life is all about powder snow and face shots, this week we've got the truth and nothing but the truth for the festival of love. Because you also have to look the truth in the face, dear PowderGuide Videos of the Week readers: life isn't always just cafés and cookies.

Let's assume it's the end of December and there's almost no snow in the mountains. Just like now at the end of 2013, only every year. Would that be the end of skiing? No, because there is artificial snow. As we will need a lot of the white artificial stuff in the future, as we already do today, and it will definitely never snow again anyway (just ask the oracle) and this powder snow is just an invention of the real estate industry anyway, here are the possible ways out of the dilemma in video-of-the-week form.