Thanks to all the mutlimedia in the world these days, the anticipation of winter is even harder to take. 'Cause no matter what the weather is like where you're sitting right now, you know there's snow somewhere, and early season keeners are hitting it... Take Sage Cattabriga-Alosa for example...

Here's some helmet cam footage from his first day of the season, October 8, in Alta. And stay tuned, the Doglotion crew is going shredding this weekend, it's dumping in BC!

They say you should always scope your landings. So why not scope out the whole mountain! Doglotion was eager to find out exactly what dangers lay beneath some of Whistler's more notorious runs, so we set out onto Whistler Mountain this weekend for some pre season reconnaisance. And hey we'd heard about some freshies in the alpine, who knew, maybe some lines were already good to go...