Killington Mountain School got back into the swing of things with the second rail jam of the season.
Killington hosted the event Rails 2 Riches this past weekend. This event is becoming one of the premier rail jams for skier and snow boarders in the country. With a 1st place cash purse of $3000 dollars, pro skiers form new
england, salt lake city, and Quebec came to duke it out for the cash prize.
KMS Freeride contingent athletes Ben Smith, Daniel
Rosenblum, and Devon
Savino were a few of the athletes who competed. All three of the athletes worked very hard to get ready for the event working on switch ups, 270's, K-feds, and
lipslides. The event is a jam format so there isn't a formal result list. All three of the boys skied there best and had a great time. Ben Smith had a fantastic day being of of the 10 athletes selected to ski in the finals to fight for the cash prize. Ben skied skied great in finals and even received a nick name from the judges "little buddy." The judges and event organizers were very impressed with Ben's efforts, and also being the youngest athlete to make the final by a few years.
This weekend we have another rail jam before the full competition season starts called the K-town Showdown. It is another rail jam series that is hosted by Killington with prize giveaways and for the Grom and Open categories.
Over the past week the crew has been enjoying some snow fall from Mother Nature, and snow making for the great mountain of Killington. The athletes continue to work on turn shape, bringing there skills into the moguls which were on mouse trap for most of the week. Over the weekend the athletes enjoyed some great mogul skiing on Escapade, and Cascade. On Sunday the mountain was nice enough to let us build our first jump of the season on upper High Line. It was a great first jump where the athletes worked on a lot of straight pops to focus on take offs, and then moved into 360's. We will continue to work on skiing some moguls this week, and Coach Justin and myself will be heading up in the morning to build another jump venue that we will be able to keep for an extended period of time.
Good luck to all of our Selection Event athletes out in Winter Park Colorado. You guys and girls are going to kill it, all of your hard work this summer and fall is going to pay off. We are all thinking of you and can't wait to watch the live feed.
The weather for the week looks great with snow showers just about all week. Keep bringing the snow mother nature, we love it!!!
Coach DJ