Jackson Hole Releases Stacked 2025 Kings and Queens of Corbet's Roster

Originally posted on Powder | By Izzy Lidsky | Last updated Jan 14, 2025 1:02 PM ET

After a hiatus in 2024, the famed freeride competition Kings & Queens of Corbet's is back in 2025 with an all-star lineup.

The competition takes place at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort on one of the world's most famous ski runs, Corbet's Couloir. Competitors huck themselves over the couloir's cornice before skiing the couloir itself, and hitting a man-made terrain park style jump at the bottom of the run. The contest is peer-judged, meaning the athletes vote on the winner, and features both male and female skiers and snowboarders.

New for 2025, a $10,000 prize purse and crown will be given to both the top skier and snowboarder in both a male and female category, whereas in previous years, skiers and snowboarders were judged as a whole.

As always, this unique competition draws an absolutely stacked lineup of athletes.

Freeskiing fans will recognize names like Colby Stevenson, who took the crown in 2023, Karl Fostvedt (2018 & 2021 King of Corbet's), Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, and Alex Hackel, as well as other notable names in the men's field.

2023 Queen of Corbet's Claire McPherson will compete alongside 2021 Queen of Corbet's Piper Kunst, and 2020 Queen of Corbet's, Veronica Paulsen.

In the snowboard category, Olympian Sarka Pancochova and FWT podium finisher Erika Vikander head up the women's field. Olympian and Jackson Hole local, Yuki Kadono will compete again in the men's snowboard field. Check out the full lineups below.

2025 Kings and Queens of Corbet's Men's Roster:

-Alex Beaulieu-Marchand
-Alex Hackel
-Alex Hall
-Blake Wilson
-Cam FitzPatrick
-Colby Stevenson
-Cooper Branham
-Grant Giller
-Jack Wiley
-Karl Fostvedt
-Mac Forehand
-Mason Lemery
-Sean Miskiman
-Toby Rafford
-Torgeir Bergrem
-Yuki Kadono

2025 Kings and Queens of Corbet's Women's Roster:

-Ana Eyssimont
-Claire McPherson
-Cheryl Maas
-Erika Vikander
-Madison Blackley
-Piper Kunst
-Sarka Pancochova
-Veronica Paulsen

King's & Queens of Corbet's debuted in 2018, and has been a hallmark in the freeskiing competition scene ever since.

What began as a kind of grassroots competition has helped launch the careers of skiers like Caite Zeliff, who won the inaugural competition, and Veronica Paulsen, who is still the only woman to have landed a backflip (and woman to attempt a double backflip) into the Couloir. Now, competitors like Arianna Tricomi and Elias Elhardt have come from all over the world to go up against local Teton Valley talent like Cam FitzPatrick and Blaine Gallivan for the crown.

Due to low snowpack and the many scary rocks that make up the couloir, the competition was cancelled in 2024. Jackson Hole currently has 200 inches of snow at its summit and more on the way before the competition weather window from February 8-16, 2025.

Kings & Queens will be live-streamed on Jackson Hole's website and spectators can watch in person from Ten Sleep Bowl at Jackson Hole.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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