Featured Picture: Stephen Shelesky | Skier: Veronica Paulsen | Location: Jackson Gap, Wyoming
Some of the insane freestyle ski and snowboard occasions is again for 2025, after a cancellation in 2024 attributable to poor snow circumstances. Kings and Queens of Corbet’s is a yearly contest happening at Jackson Gap’s legendary Corbet’s Couloir the place the world bears witness to the younger weapons of the freeride as they defy gravity. The inaugural occasion happened in 2018 and immediately turned a smash hit because of the straightforward incontrovertible fact that throwing methods into Corbet’s Couloir is totally thoughts blowing. Maybe one of the vital distinctive facets of the competitors is how every athlete flaunts their creativity, not solely by what trick they throw into the couloir, however by their take-off and touchdown spot selections.
Corbet’s Couloir is without doubt one of the most unimaginable in-bounds options on the earth and is the crown jewel of Jackson Gap Mountain Resort. Its epic partitions and daunting entrance stare at potential skiers as they trip previous it open-mouthed within the resort’s beloved Aerial Tram referred to as Huge Purple. Off the highest of the mountain, it’s a fast ski right down to the highest of the large the place snow on the backside of the doorway cliff is way farther away than it appears in images or video. That is the place the competitors begins.
Athletes should throw themselves between Couloir’s steep cliff partitions, then navigate their manner by means of a custom-built terrain park within the bowl beneath earlier than they finish their line at a moon booter proper in entrance of the screaming crowd. That is the place Colby Stevenson threw an enormous double cork 1080 to cap off his run after throwing an off-axis swap 540 into Corbet’s to win the 2023 competitors.
This yr, the competitors shall be fierce as each the 2023 King, Colby Stevenson, and 2023 Queen, Claire McPherson, are again to defend their crowns in opposition to quite a few heavy hitters. Among the many returning King and Queen, Alex Hackel (third Place in 2023), Karl Fostvedt (2018 and 2022 King), Piper Kunst (2022 Queen) and Madison Blackley (2021 Queen) shall be competing for a prize purse of $50,000 and most significantly, the coveted Crown.
PRIZE PURSE
CATEGORIES
- Males’s Ski
- Males’s Snowboard
- Girls’s Ski
- Girls’s Snowboard
PRIZE MONEY PER CATEGORY
- 1st Place – $5,000
- 2nd Place – $3,000
- third Place – $2,000
- + $5,000 to highest scoring Male and Feminine
HOW TO WATCH
When: Feb 8-Fifteenth
The place: Jackson Gap Mountain Resort
How: Get your self to the entrance row to catch all of the motion in Tensleep Bowl. From the highest of the Sublette Chair head skiers left to the viewers corral or by way of East Ridge Traverse from the Aerial Tram. There is no such thing as a spectating entry from from the highest of Corbet’s. Alternatively, tune in from afar by watching the livestream; obtainable on Youtube or Jackson Gap’s Web site.
