Warren Miller's Power of Snow Collection (Storm/Cold Fusion/Ride/Fifty)

The best of the lot, Cold Fusion, involves serious globe-hopping through four continents: Join a long, long hike through Kenya to ski what remains of a disappearing glacier, and later watch the surreal ballet of multiple "aerialists" launched high on the slopes at Colorado's Winter Park Big Air Expedition. Scale up--and snowboard down--an impossibly steep peak in Waddington, U.K., and then, believe it or not, ski Iran, a place "between dreams and awakening, of hot tea and cherry tobacco."

Ride provides its own thrills, traipsing after Whistler's avalanche hunters as they launch explosives clearing landslides before landslides clear skiers. Stick around for stops in New Zealand and France, plus helicopter skiing in the North Cascades, snowboarding the bouncy trail of the Breckenridge Bumps, and cross a war zone in Russia to reach (via creaky cable cars and choppers) the top of Europe.

Storm continues the fun in British Columbia's Blue River, Aspen's Roaring Fork Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Antarctica's South Georgia Island, the haunting first site of Ernest Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated voyage. Rounding out this DVD collection is the retrospective Fifty, an album of highlights (e.g., snowboarding in the Chugach Range, near the site of the Valdez crash) that takes a fun, then-and-now approach. --Tom Keogh

Spotlight Reviews
Shipping Problems (2008-12-21)
Customer Review : 2
Product took way to long to ship. The package was returned to them, but they made no attempt to reship it

Awesome Snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (2007-12-27)
Customer Review : 5
This Box set is amazing...it just makes me want to be a ski bumb for the rest of my life. I just want to travel the world as a professional skier for Warren Miller..."If you don't do it this year, you will be one year older when you do" Quote by Warren Miller (in almost every movie)...awesome guy...

Pre-Ski Trip Hit (2007-06-29)
Customer Review : 5
Always been a Warren Miller fan but this box set is perfect for covering all the amazing technical and silly aspects of the slopes that Miller is so well known for. Bought this for a pre-ski motivational get together and it was a huge hit...new yearly ski trip tradition.

Mostly great (2007-05-07)
Customer Review : 4
I would have given this one a 5 but the DVD, Ride, dropped it to a 4. Ride, is a sub par job which feels as if it is trying to mimic a Warren Miller film. All the other DVDs in this collection are great and make the package worth the price.

WOW! Ski films (2007-03-09)
Customer Review : 4
For anyone who is really into winter skiing, Warren Miller's films rock and outshine most other ski videos or films readily available on this subject. A prior reviewer of Warren Miller films stated that you don't learn much about ski technique from his films. But I would disagree, while they are not true instructional videos, they definately show what can be done on skis, boards, or whatever snow riding gear you prefer, if you have the will and desire to go WOW. My kids started watching Miller's films and as a result of seeing what one can do with a good pair of skis or a good board they have been inspired to move from regular downhill skiing to terrain park and extreme skiing. It has been wonderful to watch their confidence increase on the slopes, and it is mainly due to the WOW impact that Warren Miller's videos have had.
As far as this particular package of Warren Miller films goes, this package of videos is great, and contains terrific shots of extreme skiing and boarding; but unfortunately, it does not represent Miller's best work -- my favorite Warren Miller videos are Snowriders and Snowriders 2 -- and the films in this package include a lot of footage from those prior Warren Miller films.
But for anyone looking for WOW footage of extreme skiing, go with any Warren Miller product of the last ten years, including "Storm," "Coldfusion," "Ride," and "Fifty."