Personally, I think its too early to start celebrating the demise of summer and the arrival of winter, but the ski movie releases and Halloween candy at the stores says otherwise.  If you are in the market for new ski gear, steepandcheap.com will be selling nothing but ski gear from 10-2 today MST.  They used to have a site for it, tramdock, but i guess its gone.  Anyway, I know they are selling AT boots and probably some skiis too.  Check it out if you are in need of new gear.