Killington Resort in Colorado is hosting its sixth annual Slash and Berm event on March 8-10 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the coveted Stash terrain park.
The Slash and Berm is a downhill slalom snowboard event taking place in The Stash terrain park at Killington Mountain in Vermont, proceeds from the event benefit the Burton Chill Foundation. The course features natural and manmade features that the park crew set up to create an epic course for this year’s event.
Check out this video from a previous year’s event:
Snowboarder Magazine says, “The Stash terrain park that offers a unique spin on traditional races. Park Crew designs the course around iconic features from the all-natural wooded park while sending racers into berms and around gates.”
Festivities kick off Friday March 8 at the Darkside Snowboard Shop in Killington with free barbeque for the preregistration party for the events on Saturday and Sunday. A special slalom event on Burton throwback boards will be held on Friday too with three divisions, Open Men, Open Women, and Groms. The winners of these events will get free entry into the Slash and Berm event this weekend.
Moutain Times says, “Saturday’s event is open to all snowboarders and will be timed individually. The action continues on Sunday with the newly formed Grom event to take place in the Lil’ Stash at Ramshead.”
There’s still time to register for the event, entry fees include a donation to the Chill Foundation and are $60 for open divisions, and $30 for groms. Visit killington.com for more information on the event or how to register yourself in. You can also get tickets here while supplies lasts.
Slalom snowboarding is pretty different than the freestyle type of riding I’ve mentioned in other posts. Most people only think of slalom skiing but there’s actually a whole other part of slalom just focused on snowboarding.
Check out this video from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Killington’s Slash and Berm even takes a cool twist on the traditional slalom style however. They incorporate different park features like jumps and wall rides into the course, making it sort of like a freestyle-slalom variant, which is truly unique and what makes it such a cool event. Riders also typically use their regular boards rather than a slalom board, which adds another cool twist.
The Burton Chill Foundation works with children and young people to inspire them through different board sports. “Since inception, Chill has grown to 15 cities across North America, and several international affiliate programs in Italy, Austria, Australia, Japan, and the Czech Republic. We run programs at 15 sites: Baltimore, Boston, Burlington, Chicago, D.C., Denver, Detroit, Salt Lake City, New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, Reno, Seattle, Vancouver, and Toronto. Participants range in age from 10-18 years old.” https://www.chill.org/our-work
To volunteer to help the Chill Out Foundation, click here.
Matt Petraglia 