Best Lines of 2023 I Ski Women

Freeride World Tour

Dive into the excitement of the top 5 ski women lines from last season featuring Elisabeth Gerritzen and Megane Betend in Kicking Horse Golden BC, Addison Rafford in Baqueira Beret, Molly Armanino and Justine Dufour-Lapointe in Ordino Arcalís.

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00:00 What a show, ski women, every single time they drop in we get fireworks.

00:04 Elizabeth Gerritsen, always stylish, always a different take on the pace.

00:12 It feels like the Verbier riders just have a style that kind of carries out of their background from Verbier.

00:18 Always really fast, you know you can count on Elizabeth for a high speed run.

00:24 Straight away, straight away.

00:26 The wind off the cornice there coming into this section, we're seeing a few more tracks in this section.

00:31 We saw it pay off for Mégot Vétan. Elizabeth taking a very similar approach, stomping on that one.

00:38 Really good flow here, like through a technical section, keeping the skis moving.

00:43 Beautiful technique, really strong riding, very clear and precise to where she's going.

00:49 Working towards a similar line, taking it back across the hill towards the double.

00:54 Similar line choice, so smooth, so strong. Elizabeth Gerritsen.

01:00 A solid, solid run for the Verbier rider, the 2021 world champion, Elizabeth Gerritsen.

01:06 Yeah, fresh mindset for Addison Rafford, young rookie, set to kick off her Freeride World Tour career out of the gate.

01:16 Here she goes, she's given us waves, she thinks she's at the judging line.

01:21 So now she is starting her first Freeride World Tour run in earnest.

01:25 Coming into this cool wire here.

01:27 Strong pace here for Addison Rafford. We saw this play out nicely for Sibille Blanjon.

01:39 And a nice big turn.

01:48 Addy with a slightly different take on it though, airing into the chute with the grab.

01:52 Solid landing there and she skis out of it beautifully and takes another air with the grab.

01:58 Looking good, Addison Rafford with a great start to her Freeride World Tour campaign.

02:09 As we move back up to the start, a Chamonix local here, Megan Beton,

02:18 kicking out of the gate.

02:19 See what she makes, she's gone a more central line.

02:21 Really nice turns here, finding some good power, making it look good, fluid.

02:27 Look at that power.

02:28 Yeah, charging through this section as she comes past this upper little zone that's eaten up a few riders.

02:35 A unique take on it and a really, really sensible move there.

02:38 Strong riding here for Megan Beton.

02:41 She has got the pedal to the metal coming into this lower section.

02:45 I don't know if I'd call any of this sensible. This is fast, fluid, aggressive, full line skiing.

02:50 Holy moly, look at that section!

02:53 Just race that!

02:55 Turning it into a triple there for Megan Beton, exactly what she needed to do.

03:01 Molly Armanino in the start gate.

03:08 She's a wildcard, dominated the qualifiers last year.

03:15 So she's finding some pow turns there.

03:17 It looks like the wind's had its way with that Couloir though,

03:20 so it might be some pretty packed powder in there.

03:23 Yeah, and Molly now into the heart of things, over top of the exposure.

03:28 Really, really steep section as she kind of finds her way through, up and over that wind feature.

03:41 So let's see if she's got some features lined up for us here.

04:00 And airing into her slough but remaining in control and massive air out there.

04:07 Oh, she's doing it!

04:14 Another feature here.

04:15 Yeah, we saw this one in play now, pointing it off that one as well.

04:19 Extremely creative line, no other tracks in that zone and that air at the bottom.

04:35 Well, we go back up for our last rider in the ski women's field, Justine Duport-Lepointe.

04:41 Justine is here to play, her skiing always aggressive.

04:47 It's kind of a trademark of her skiing, high speed,

04:50 high risk and very exciting to watch.

04:52 Justine, on course.

05:00 All right, so navigating this little bump, big pop there, catching a little safety grab,

05:09 starting things off that bump.

05:11 Definitely, we've seen a few riders, well, we saw Addison get rocked by that.

05:14 Now coming down to this heart cliff, picking it up with a little pre-pop,

05:18 nice and clean on the land.

05:20 A good start here for Justine.

05:22 Yeah, popping slightly early.

05:33 I think a lot of them watched the videos from last season and saw

05:36 the way it was taken.

05:37 Same angle as Molly, nice clean landing.

05:39 All right, so Justine well and truly into things here, catching the wind lip,

05:44 flying across and able to handle it.

05:46 That's a very strange transition from down to back up again.

05:50 And now Justine over on this rider's left side of the face.

05:54 Looking for one of these features here, there's lots to choose from, taking it, strong stomp.

06:01 I feel like you'd never be able to tell that she was a local skier.

06:05 She's got like such a new school style.

06:07 It's not, I don't know, not very structured.

06:09 Nice and clean into the finish.

06:12 A clean run for Justine Duport-Lepoint.

06:17 From Montreal, Quebec, in Canada, your Freeride World Tour champion, Justine Duport-Lepoint!

06:22 [Cheering]

06:30 [Music]

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