Annual Event Begins at 10 A.M. MST Exclusively Via JHMR
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) announced today that the seventh annual Kings & Queens of Corbet’s ski and snowboard freeride invitational will kick off on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. MST. The event will be streamed live for free and in its entirety exclusively on Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s YouTube channel and at JacksonHole.com.
This year’s Kings & Queens event will bring together a star-studded roster of skiers and snowboarders to the resort’s famous Corbet’s Couloir, including past champions Colby Stevenson and Claire McPherson (2023) as well as Piper Kunst (2021) and Veronica Paulsen (2020).
JMHR will award a total of $50,000 in prize money for the 2024 Kings & Queens of Corbet’s competition, and separate awards will be given for the top male and female performers in both the ski and snowboard categories for the first time in the event’s history.
The winners in each of the four categories will be awarded $5,000, while the second-place finishers will take home $3,000 and the third-place finishers will claim $2,000. JHMR also announced that a $5,000 bonus will be given to the highest-scoring male and female athlete regardless of discipline, and those two competitors will be named the King and Queen of Corbet’s.
JHMR will provide complete coverage of the event, including reels and stories from event day, on its Instagram channel at @jacksonhole, and fans will find a full recap of the event on jacksonhole.com.
Sponsors for Kings & Queens include Monster Energy, Sweet Protection, Nature Valley, Coca-Cola, GORE-TEX, GoPro, Yeti, Smartwool, Mammut, Scott Sports, Kiehl’s, and TutleBox.
The order for this year’s lineup is as follows:
- Tim McChesney (ski)
- Wyatt Gentry (ski)
- Ridge Dirksmeier (ski)
- Piper Kunst (ski)
- Mike Bogs (snowboard)
- Alex Beaulieu-Marchand (ski)
- Windham Miller (snowboard)
- Yuki Kadono (snowboard)
- Madison Blackley (snowboard)
- Lalo Rambaud (ski)
- Sarka Pancochova (snowboard)
- Claire McPherson (ski)
- Spencer Whiting (snowboard)
- Alex Hackel (ski)
- Cheryl Maas (snowboard)
- Tristen Lilly (ski)
- Veronica Paulsen (ski)
- Jed Sky (snowboard)
- Ana Eyssimont (ski)
- Erika Vikander (snowboard)
- Colby Stevenson (ski)
- Ben Poechman (ski)
- Jack Wiley (snowboard)
- Irie Jefferson (snowboard)
About Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) located in Teton Village, Wyoming, is a values-led, family owned, iconic mountain destination with a purpose of enriching the lives of its guests, employees, and community through premium, authentic, and memorable big mountain experiences only found in the Tetons. Jackson Hole famously delivers the finest powder snow with 4,139 of continuous vertical feet of legendary terrain and 2,500 acres of the best beginner, intermediate and expert terrain. Neighboring celebrated Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, and operating in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, makes Jackson Hole an exceptional and unique global destination. With an enduring commitment to the surrounding landscape, wildlife and authentic community character, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort strives to live by its values by reducing environmental impact and in doing so runs 100% of its operations on Green Power.
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