Canada is coming for Breck’s big record.
On March 29, Mont-Orford near Montreal stole the unofficial title of world’s longest shot-ski at its annual après-ski bash. The Quebec resort claims 1,460 people lined the slopes in retro neon and fur hats for a shot of the hard stuff from 506 custom skis.
This beats the standing record of 1,401 people from Breck Ullr Fest in December 2024, where shot-skiers donned horned helmets on Main Street for a swig of Breckenridge Bourbon from 503 skis.
This is the first steal from an international competitor in recent shot-ski record history.
Since 2016, Breck and Park City have traded the unofficial title (Guinness doesn’t tack this one) in a mostly friendly competition where one town steals it from the other, like playing flag football with your grandma. No one loses, everyone wins, for nearly eight years.
Until recently.
Just days before Mont-Orford took the title, Sunday River in Maine announced its own record attempt for April 7. Far as we can tell the Jägermeister-sponsored event did not beat Mont-Orford.
For a few months in 2022 the official Shotskis Bar in Eagle River, Wisc. held the record before Park City reclaimed it, followed two months later by Breck.
Park City tries again in October. Breck goes for it in December at Ullr Fest, the annual snow celebration named for a Nordic god.