By Mac Domingus
A rider tricks off of a wooden-beast statue in the Stash terrain park during Slash & Berm in 2018.
Celebrate with three-day Slash & Berm event
KILLINGTON— This year marks the 10-year anniversary of The Stash park at Killington Resort. Slash & Berm will celebrate the birthday over three days, March 8-10. Slash & Berm is a banked slalom event to benefit the Burton Chill Foundation held at Killington to bring the East Coast snowboarding community together.
Events kick off Friday, March 8 at Darkside Snowboard Shop in Killington, from 5-9 p.m. There will be a free barbecue and pre-registration party for Saturday and Sunday events, plus a binding-less banked slalom in the Dark Park on Burton throwback boards. Registration is 5-5:45 p.m., it’s is free and open to the public.
The event will be split into Open Men, Open Women and Open Grom divisions. Groms will start at 6 p.m, followed by women, then men. Fastest to the bottom wins!
The top time for each division will get free entry (excluding Chill donation) into either the Saturday or Sunday Slash & Berm event.
Also on Friday, Killington Parks Crew and Burton will host a Shop Team Invite-Only banked slalom event. Shops will enter teams to compete for the title.
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.
Online registration is open. Entry fee is $60 for the Open Division, $30 for the Grom divisions. For more information, visit killington.com.