DENVER (KDVR) — On Thursday, over a thousand individuals lined up on Principal Avenue in Breckenridge to interrupt the unofficial report for the world’s longest shot ski.
Yearly the city celebrates Ullr, the Norse god of snow, for a snowy winter season forward. The celebration takes place on Principal Avenue with a parade and bonfire. In the course of the festivities, one other custom emerged.
It’s known as a shot ski. Mainly, it’s a ski with 4 shot glasses connected to it. 4 individuals line up and tip the ski whereas concurrently taking a shot.
The shot ski report has gone backwards and forwards for years.
Breckenridge has been claiming the report yearly since 2013, which began with 192 individuals and 60 skis.
In 2015, Park Metropolis, Utah started to rival Breckenridge for the report. The report is handed backwards and forwards, as Park Metropolis’s annual occasion takes place in October and Breckenridge’s occasion happens in December, based on the Breckenridge Tourism Workplace.
Park Metropolis held the report of 1,360 individuals in October 2023, earlier than Breckenridge retook the title on Dec. 7.
Whereas the world report is unofficial as a result of Guinness World Information doesn’t decide alcohol-related content material, Breckenridge retains a detailed eye on the information to make sure they’re really the report holders, based on the Breckenridge Tourism Workplace.
Simply earlier than the sixtieth anniversary of the Ullr Fest, the Breckenridge neighborhood of over a thousand individuals lined as much as assist reclaim the report.
Now, the world report numbers stand at 1,377 individuals concurrently taking a shot out of the shot ski. There have been 495 skis, which tallied to 2,469 toes.
Based on Vail Resorts, the city formally broke the report.
The night time ended with a flurry, and extra snow within the forecast forward.
