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A free community preseason event for skiers, snowboarders, winter athletes, and active adults.
Start your winter season with a better understanding of how you move, where you are strong, and what you may want to work on before opening day.
First Tracks combines performance screening, movement, and practical education to help you identify your preseason starting point and discover ways to prepare for the season ahead.
Register for First Tracks What to Expect About Season Ready
First Tracks is part of Season Ready, a series of free Elevate community events designed to help you prepare for the activities you look forward to each season.
Season Ready events combine education, movement, and selected screening or performance activities to help you understand your starting point, learn what your season demands, and identify practical next steps.
Come to learn. Try something new. Ask questions. Then decide what you want to keep building.
Before the snow flies, First Tracks gives you an opportunity to explore some of the physical qualities that contribute to winter sport performance.
The event combines brief performance-oriented screening with practical education about movement, strength, conditioning, balance, and preseason preparation.
You can use what you learn to help guide your own preseason activity or explore an Elevate program such as Skihab if you would like more structured training.
First Tracks is not a medical exam or sport-clearance event. It is designed to help you learn, move, and prepare.
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Afternoon event
Exact registration times will appear with the Mindbody offering.
Elevate Wellness & Performance
121 College ParkwayMammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Skiers, snowboarders, winter athletes, and active adults looking to prepare for the upcoming season.
First Tracks is designed to be practical, interactive, and useful whether you are a recreational skier, a snowboarder, a mountain professional, or simply looking to prepare better for winter.
Complete selected movement, strength, balance, and performance screening activities.
Explore practical principles of strength, conditioning, movement, and preseason preparation.
Learn what your screening results may suggest about your current physical starting point.
Leave with ideas for what you may want to work on before the winter season begins.
Screening activities may include selected measures of strength, movement, balance, and force production.
Explore selected measures of force production, balance, or lower-body performance using force plate technology.
Complete movement-based screening activities that may explore mobility, control, coordination, and balance.
Explore selected strength or performance measures that may help establish a preseason baseline.
Screening is only one part of the event.
First Tracks also includes education on how strength, mobility, conditioning, balance, and progression fit into preseason preparation.
The goal is to help participants understand not only what they tested, but how those physical qualities connect to training for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.
First Tracks is designed to give you a useful starting point whether you choose to train on your own or continue with an Elevate program.
For participants who want structured preseason training, Skihab offers progressive dryland strength and conditioning for skiers and snowboarders.
Skihab focuses on strength, balance, mobility, conditioning, power, and movement control leading into the winter season.
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Recreational, competitive, or frequent skiers preparing for the winter season.
Riders looking to build a clearer understanding of preseason physical preparation.
People preparing for a winter that includes long days, physical work, and significant time on snow.
Anyone interested in learning more about strength, movement, and readiness for winter activity.
First Tracks is an educational and performance-oriented screening event.
The screening is not intended to diagnose an injury, identify a medical condition, provide physical therapy treatment, or determine whether someone is medically cleared for skiing, snowboarding, work, or sport.
If you have a current injury, recent surgery, significant pain, or medical restrictions, follow the guidance of your healthcare provider before participating in strenuous activity.
Wear comfortable athletic clothing and supportive footwear that allows you to move freely.
Bring water and arrive ready to participate in movement, strength, balance, and screening activities.
Ski or snowboard equipment is not required.
Space is limited. Advance registration is recommended so the Elevate team can plan for screening flow and participant capacity.
Available registration options will appear below.
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Elevate Wellness & Performance121 College ParkwayMammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Please arrive a few minutes early to check in and be ready for your scheduled event time.
First Tracks is a community preseason screening and education event focused on movement, strength, balance, performance, and preparation for winter activity.
Not exactly. Participants will move and complete selected screening activities, but the event is primarily designed around assessment, education, and preseason planning.
Screening may include selected measures of strength, force production, balance, movement quality, mobility, and control.
Exact stations may vary based on equipment, staffing, and event design.
Force plates can measure how force is produced or distributed during selected standing, balance, or movement tasks.
At First Tracks, force plate testing may be used as one part of a broader performance-oriented screen.
No. First Tracks does not provide medical clearance for sport, work, or recreation.
It is an educational and performance-oriented screening event.
No. First Tracks is not a physical therapy evaluation, treatment session, or rehabilitation program.
No. First Tracks may be useful for a range of winter athletes and active adults.
You do not need to be a competitive or advanced athlete to participate.
Skiing and snowboarding are the primary focus, but the event may also be useful for other active adults and winter mountain participants interested in preseason physical preparation.
First Tracks provides an opportunity to explore your preseason starting point through screening and education.
Skihab is a progressive preseason strength and conditioning program designed to help participants continue building toward winter.
Wear comfortable athletic clothing and supportive footwear that allows running, squatting, balancing, jumping, or other movement as appropriate to the screening.
First Tracks is a starting point. Choose what fits your goals next.
Continue with progressive preseason strength and conditioning for skiing and snowboarding.
Explore additional movement, strength, balance, and performance screening opportunities.
Explore seasonal and sport-specific training programs throughout the year.
Understand your starting point and prepare for the demands of winter sport.
Support physical readiness for winter employees and snow professionals.
Bring preseason education, screening, and preparation to our active mountain community.
Understand where you are starting before the season begins.
Explore strength, movement, balance, and performance through screening.
Experience practical movement and performance assessment.
Meet other winter athletes and connect with Elevate performance resources.
Find your starting point. Learn what to work on. Then choose how you want to prepare for the winter ahead.
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