Keep Your Clips Up #8: Best Ski Videos of the Week

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." While he was onto something in the '80s, I don't know if Ferris Bueller's advice applies to 2024. Thanks to the non-stop deluge that is social media, life's now moving at warp speed—blink, and you're out of luck. That's where Keep Your Clips Up—a weekly collection of the best videos in skiing—comes in.

Earlier this week, my partner texted me that she'd gotten a winter storm warning on her phone. Yes, we live in Montana—the weather's rarely predictable—but I thought it was a glitch until she got home and proved that, indeed, the hills around Missoula could see a few inches of snow come Monday.

I'd love to go skiing if I could. Barring that, lying around in the sun and trying to bronze up my embarrassingly pale skin sounds pretty good. This in-between crap where winter kind of returns, though? No thanks. Give me winter or summer. Not both at the same time. I've put a pin in my ski fantasies and am content with waiting until next fall. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, a saying I'll live by unless I happen across some plane tickets to South America.

But that's just me. Some skiers, like Molly Armanino—who leads off our weekly clip selection—haven't moved on quite yet, trudging into the alpine to find winter's dregs. Depending on your temperament, let her endeavors be an opportunity for vicarious living or, if you're the turns-all-year type, inspiration.

Molly Armanino's Summer Skiing Campaign

No dice on where exactly this was shot, but it certainly didn't involve chairlifts. When a fellow skier asked Armanino on Instagram "how high" she trekked before dropping in, she wrote, "Too high to count!" Tis' the season. It's June. If you want in the North Hemisphere, you gotta get it—an MO Armanino's familiar with. The adrenaline rush at the end of the hike is just an added bonus.

Finn Bilous Pays the Price

Finn Bilous' hip probably looked like a crude rendition of the Northern Lights after all the slams he took putting this one down. All told, Bilous hit the concrete 36 times. You'd think by the 30th hit—accompanied by the glaring lack of snow—he would've called it quits. But a proclivity for giving up and being a professional park and freeride skier isn't usually a package deal. Sometimes, you have to pay to play.

Boom Club Goes to Nordkette

In Höhenstraße Speedrun , which was filmed last winter but dropped this week, a stacked crew of skiers under the Boom Club banner takes on Austria's Nordkette Skyline Park. It's a simple cut with nice music and clean park skiing that succinctly captures a day or two spent on the slopes with friends. In short: the perfect snack to keep the excitement simmering before next winter rolls around.

One Smooth Operator

Speaking of simple—Joona Kangas seems to treat skiing as an exercise in restraint and precision. For him, every rotation and landing is perfectly calculated. Kangas does just enough. Never too much or too little, and, because of that, his skiing stands out. He embodies total control. If you're looking to watch some skiing that feels like tending a Zen garden, you've come to the right place.

Level 1 Delivers a Blast From the Past

It's 2006. Level 1's still dropping full-length ski movies, every other edit has a DL Incognito soundtrack , and life is good. Obviously, this one isn't from last week—Craig Coker and Sean Logan's outfits say as much—but a little reminiscing never hurt anyone, particularly when the snow isn't falling. Level 1 reran the Long Story Short clip on social media a few days ago and has teased plans to release more classic segments from their boundless vault , so stay tuned. In the meantime, all of Long Story Short is on YouTube.

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