STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Sun Valley Resort will host the best skiers in the world when they come to Idaho’s premiere ski resort to compete in the 2025 Alpine World Cup Finals.

Sun Valley Resort is moving forward with plans to host the 2025 World Cup Finals over two weekends March 16-24, 2025.

The resort has been working with FIS and U.S. Ski & Snowboard on setting up the event, said Bridget Higgins, Sun Valley Resort's director of marketing and PR. The 2024-25 calendar is still subject to final ratification by the FIS Council in Spring 2024.

The event would be a major feather in the cap of both Sun Valley Resort and Alpine World Cup Skiing in the United States.

Sun Valley last hosted a World Cup event in March 1977.

Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, one of the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialists of all time, claimed one of his 86 World Cup wins in Sun Valley by winning the Giant slalom on March 13, 1975. It was the fourth year he competed at that level in a World Cup career that went from 1974 to 1989.

At the time he retired, he had won more international races than any other alpine skier; he has since been passed by Mikaela Shiffrin.

Switzerland’s Christian Hemmi got the silver medal in the Sun Valley World Cup against Stenmark and his brother Heini, a 1976 Olympic GS champion, got third.

Sun Valley hosted the U.S. Alpine National Championships in 2016, 2018 and 2023. It will host them for the second straight year in March 20-24, 2024.

HAIL THE CHALLENGER!

Sun Valley Resort will cut the ribbon on its new Challenger six-passenger chairlift today—Wednesday, Dec. 20—at 8:55 a.m. The ribbon cutting will be preceded by a few remarks from Sun Valley General Manager Pete Sonntag and Mountain Operations Manager James Grant.

To learn more about it and the new Flying Squirrel chairlift, see Eye on Sun Valley’s Monday, Dec. 18, story: “Challenger Ribbon Cutting Looms.”