The Canine Days of Summer season are right here. I, for one, am consuming it up and making embarrassingly sluggish progress on my present aim of incomes a tan. Because it stands, I am extra on the Casper finish of the bronzed spectrum.
Whereas I may strive self-tanner (or simply take the much less cautious heinous sunburn to tan pipeline), there are higher methods to appear to be you have been exterior, specifically by visiting Mt. Hood, Oregon, residence to Timberline Lodge, which is successfully the final ski North American ski resort standing. In my unrelenting search of ski clips, Timberline Lodge has, unsurprisingly, grow to be a significant useful resource. The place else are you able to get the products—and clips—in the course of the Canine Days, high-altitude missions however?
Timberline Lodge would possibly kick off our weekly Maintain Your Clips Up providing, however there’s loads extra to like right here, together with epic pond skims, hectic wall rides, and, as typical, somewhat replace from our mates down in South America.
Kuura Koivisto Goes to Oregon
On Armada’s athlete webpage, freeskier Kuura Koivisto is named the “Final Stylebender.” It is an apt description. His newest Instagram add, shot at Mt. Hood additional proves that Koivisto approaches freeskiing from a definite, flavorful angle. Add in some slushy landings, and you have the proper recipe for some satisfying—and sure jealousy-inducing—viewing.
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The Campers Are Killing It
Every summer time, Windells Summer season Ski Camp incorporates a crowd of seasoned skilled skiers throughout its Signature Classes™. Unsurprisingly, all these professionals shred. Extra stunning, although—and the spotlight of this video from final week’s ON3P Signature Session™—is the expertise of the Windells campers. Let’s simply say it was a nasty week to be rail on the market on Mt. Hood.
A Pond Skim for the Books
Pond skimming is a contact sport. Water, allegedly, is meant to interrupt your fall. However while you’re shifting at, say, 40 miles per hour, water would not all the time maintain up this finish of the cut price. Anybody who’s back-flopped whereas cliff-jumping can attest to this reality. Personally, I would go so far as to say that I might relatively fall on nearly all forms of snow—barring bulletproof ice—than a pond. Though the specter of whiplashing himself into subsequent yr did little to dissuade Filip Žáček, whose lately shared high-speed pond skim try is a sight to be seen.
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Joona Kangas Visits Nature’s Wallride
Talking of snowboarding unconventional surfaces, this wall journey from Joona Kangas is video game-level using at its best. Thoughts the hole.
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What Else is New in South America?
And now, the inevitable. South America nonetheless seems prefer it’s snowboarding nice. Given the sweltering warmth many people are enduring in North America proper now—final Sunday, it was so sizzling in Las Vegas, Nevada, that you may soften Crayons simply by placing them exterior—it is troublesome to conceptualize that someplace on the earth, somebody’s snowboarding contemporary, mid-winter snow. That fortunate somebody on this case is Adrià Millan Pla. God, I’ve seen what you have carried out for others.
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