TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) announced Wednesday that the upcoming Kings & Queens of Corbet’s event has been canceled for the year, due to snow conditions.
“We’re saddened to announce that Kings & Queens of Corbet’s 2024 is cancelled,” JHMR’s announcement reads. “Jackson Hole Ski Patrol, Mountain Operations, Event Leadership and current/former competitors worked together yesterday to assess conditions in the Couloir for the competition scheduled for Feb. 3 to 10.”
The cancellation came down to specific snow conditions.
“Eighty inches of snow has blanketed the Resort in the past two weeks and the mountain is open wall-to-wall,” JHMR said. “However, Corbet’s Couloir requires specific weather factors to fill in properly and create a competition-worthy environment that supports landing mind-blowing tricks and carrying high speed through it. Unfortunately, this last storm didn’t deliver what we needed. Upon first-hand inspection of the snowpack within the Couloir, the competitors agreed that conditions are not at the level needed to run an elite competition.”
This year would have been the seventh edition of the weeklong competition.
Skier Veronica Paulsen, a past winner of the competition, commented on the cancellation in the resort’s statement.
“Corbet’s is skiing great, but conditions are not there to do what we want to do,” Paulsen said. “As athletes, we all want to show off our best skiing, and right now the conditions are not safe enough for us to put on the show we usually do. I’ve trained all year for this and now I have another year to keep training and dreaming about my run.”
JHMR is working to open Corbet’s “very soon” for skiers “with expert abilities,” according to the announcement. Kings & Queens is expected to return in 2025.
