Barbara, Author at The Ski Club of New Jersey

Five Things To Do In and Around Killington DuringThe World Cup Weekend

The Homelight Killington Cup is not just about a world class ski race, although that is the main draw.

It is an entire weekend devoted to celebrating the world’s top alpine skiers within a picturesque New England background providing unmatched light, drama, and fun events!

Despite how cold it might get at the Beast of the East, as Killington, Vt (the location of The Homelight Killington Cup) is known, starting November 26th until November 28th 2021, tens of thousands will throng to the mountain to join in celebrating the history and excitement of alpine ski racing worldwide and in the Northeast.

Besides getting to witness some ski racings fastest female racers in Slalom and Giant Slalom as they compete for a top prize, the area gears up for tourism with a weekend packed full of fun and entertainment.

If you want to enjoy on and off mountain fun, including area offerings, especially in Rutland, here’s what you need to know.

A Highlight of five weekend offerings:

Highlights include:

live music on the mountain
fireworks on the mountain
Indoor Farmers Market in Rutland
Christmas tree lightings (including Rutland’s tree lighting) and shop small Saturday in Rutland
Friday night bib draw

While times and specifics are still not carved in stone, if you sign up for Killington Cup Text Alerts, you will be informed as details unfold. SIGN UP FOR KILLINGTON CUP TEXT ALERTS.

As we discover more info, we will update this post.

AUDI FIS SKI WORLD CUP CONTINUES AT KILLINGTON RESORT

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KILLINGTON, Vt. – In June of this year, Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America, announced a two year agreement to host the Audi FIS Ski World Cup:

“…Vermont’s Killington Resort, and part of POWDR, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the National Governing Body (NGB) of Olympic ski and snowboard sports in the United States, have a two-year agreement for Vermont’s Killington Resort to host the Audi FIS Ski World Cup. Killington’s place on the 2021 Alpine World Cup calendar has been confirmed by the International Ski Federation (FIS). HomeLight, the real estate technology platform transforming how people buy and sell homes, is the title sponsor for the next World Cup at Killington. The HomeLight Killington Cup will take place Thanksgiving weekend from November 27-28, 2021.

As with the last four years of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup, the 2021 and 2022 races at Killington will be broadcast worldwide to more than 60 nations, along with national broadcast coverage across the United States. The event has drawn an increasing number of spectators who converge at Killington each year to cheer on ski racers from around the world. As one of the top three events on the Women’s FIS World Cup tour with spectators peaking at 39,000 in 2018, the event is anticipated to bring millions of dollars in economic impact to the state of Vermont.

“Bringing FIS Alpine World Cup racing back to Killington Resort for the 2021/22 Olympic Qualification season is an incredible opportunity for the resort and the surrounding community. More than just world-class racing and a great music line-up, spectators will enjoy a full weekend of festivities,” says Mike Solimano, president and general manager of Killington Resort and Pico Mountain. “Come fall, we’ll utilize every opportunity to build a world-class race venue on Superstar with Killington’s state-of-the-art snowmaking system – positioning us to offer the longest season in the East.”   

For the full press release, read more at Killington’s Website here:

AN EXCITING 2017-18 RACING SEASON FOR THE SKI CLUB OF NEW JERSEY

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*Jane McKinley makes the podium at USSA U16 Qualifier at Mt Creek*

With frost near at hand, let’s talk about what’s happening on the race scene as it affects SCNJ:

The Killington race camp dates have already been sent out to our SCNJ members. Summarizing – there are two race camps:

(1) The regular 5-day GS Killington camp (12/4/2017 – 12/8/2017, which includes ½ day free skiing on the Sunday before the camp, and:

(2) A 2-day camp for Slalom race training, which follows the 5-day camp. Prices will be announced later, and are similar to last year. Both have excellent instructors, and are a great way to get started on the ski season.

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We are again planning to set up an on-the-snow fun session (likely at Pico Mountain) for our juniors during the MLK weekend in January. We have first class instructors in our Club and they like nothing better than to help kids have more fun skiing. If there is enough interest, we can see if Middlebury will set up a short course at their Snow Bowl so that we can practice turns thru the gates.

Beginning in January, remember the Wednesday night racing league, compliments of the NJ Ski Council. This begins the first Wednesday of the month, and lasts for six weeks, weather permitting. Another fun event to participate in. More info will be availa-ble later in the fall.

The annual State race is planned for the first Saturday of February – 2/3/2018 – at Pi-co. We try to enter both a women’s and men’s team, and we do nicely by holding our own. A lot of fun!

March 3, 2018 is the date for our all-important 3-club race with Monmouth and Telemark ski clubs. Middlebury has asked us, as a favor, to move this date since they have a ma-jor school function. We are currently discussing holding this race down at Bromley Mountain. Several items still need to be resolved – we’ll keep you posted. Remember, juniors participate in both the State and 3-club races. The kids love this and enjoy showing the ‘grown-ups’ their stuff.

This year, it’s SCNJ’s turn to hold the 3-club après ski party. Always a lot of fun, and someone is always around to claim ‘bragging rights’!

Mark Conlan, Race Chair

Hank Willen, Assistant

World Cup at Killington November, 2016

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2016 World Cup at Killington

In November 2016 the World Cup Women’s slalom and Giant Slalom were held at Killington. This is the first time in many years (1978) that a World Cup event has been held in Vermont, and the plan is to do it again this year in November 2017.

A couple of our club members were at the event and said it was very well organized and they had a great time.

The races drew a crowd of 6 to 8 thousand folks at the base of Superstar, and an American, Mikaela Shiffrin, won the women’s Slalom Race.

This November Jay Millar will be hosting the 2017 World Cup event weekend at our lodge, so make plans to get up there and get some early skiing in and watch the World Cup racing.

Ski Club Of New Jersey Sun Valley Club Trip 2017

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Sun Valley – March 1st to 8th, 2017 On March 1, 2017, 11 happy skiers left for Sun Valley via Denver and into the Hailey Freidman airport in Sun Valley. According to our transportation driver, Sun Valley was experiencing one of the best snow years in the last 20 years, as evidenced by approximately 4 feet of snow on the buildings roofs. Our accommodations at the Sun Valley Lodge were lovely and beautifully appointed.

The Lodge which has undergone a major renovation in the last few years had several amenities to keep everyone happy. A large outdoor heated pool and hot tub, ice skating, restaurants, spa, bar with entertainment, and a basement bowling alley. A group of us decided to give the bowling a whirl. All I can say is that no one scored over 100.

A very poor athletic example indeed. Our first few days were bright and sunny and most of us had some Gumby” legs by early afternoon.

We had forgotten how steep and how much vertical the mountain has, or perhaps it’s the fact that we were all 15 years younger in 2002.

Their “Green” runs were surely blues and possibly black runs in many other ski areas.

We enjoyed a group dinner together at The Cabin, where we had dined and taken a sleigh ride to on our 2002 ski trip to Sun Valley. The week passed quickly and fortunately there were no injuries or significant issues. Our flight home out of the Hailey Freidman airport to Denver was diverted to Twin Falls, Idaho, about an hour and a half away due to bad weather and difficulty of the small jets with the mountain airport. Home safe and looking forward to next years trip maybe to BIG SKY Montana!

The Ski Club of New Jersey’s 2017 Race Results

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SCNJ CLUB’s 2017 RACE RESULTS

Middlebury Snow Bowl, March 4, 2017

Another fun Club Race weekend!! Our SCNJ adults (combined men’s and women’s teams) kept the ‘little brown jug’, winning by a time of about 33 seconds, besting both Telemark and Monmouth Ski Clubs. Thanks to everyone who participated and made the effort to keep the ‘jug’. And our juniors had no trouble winning the junior trophy!

The race course was again set on the right side of the hill (facing up), so as to make ‘the race more fun’! This year conditions were exceptional – very icy, extreme cold, high wind, and frequent snow showers – yikes!!! A total of 73 racers (51 adults; 22 juniors) participated from the 3 clubs, up from 61 last year. Herb Botwick was our race starter for the first run – Telemark provided the starter for the second run. Nancy Willen was SCNJ’s official scorer in the timing booth. John McAndris provided the computer power to calculate results – a real time saver!!

SCNJ’s men’s team was led by Jonathan Blumers (2nd fastest time on the mountain), Jay Henry (3th fastest), Nickolas Miller (8th), Trey Miller, Tom Henry, Jr and Chip Miller. Our gals were led by Jackie Conlan (14th fastest, first time on the snow this year), Kimmy Conlan, Jaime Cozine (first race for SCNJ) and Ginny Newman.

Special thanks to Tom Henry, Jr up from Florida. Jay Henry’s daughter Olivia (age 5) was looking forward to her first ‘serious’ race, but sadly, frost bite on both checks made her wait for another year! Olivia is SCNJ’s first 4th generation member!! SCNJ again had 7 juniors to race for the Club – the top 4 times counted. Our juniors won by about 22 seconds over the 2nd place Telemark team.

The junior team was led by Matt McAndris (who had the fastest time on the mountain!), Jack McGovern (first race for SCNJ), Conner McAndris and Mike Ferreira (also first race for SCNJ). Again, we had a delicious mid-day ‘mountain’ luncheon – a great spread of sandwiches, salads, chips, cookies and sodas.

The 3-club race is a great end-of-season event for our clubs! Telemark had this year’s après ski party – about a hundred people showed up. What a nice party they hosted!

Next year it will be SCNJ’s turn to host – the event is scheduled for March 3, 2018 at Middlebury Snow Bowl! Please mark your calendars now!! As always, a big thank you to all of our racers, rooters and everyone who came out to make this so successful!