There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles in around November, when the skis are ready, the forecasts are being checked with unreasonable frequency, and winter still hasn't quite committed to showing up.

Back in October 2016, we put together Preseason Warm-Ups, a collection of familiar one-liners from people who'd clearly been thinking about skiing for too long. Ten years later, the dialogue hasn't changed much.

We're currently somewhere between convincing ourselves every cold front is the one and wondering whether staring at the mountain long enough might help. Whatever stage of waiting this is called, we're in it.