STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

Picabo Street has a run on Bald Mountain and a street at the base of Bald Mountain’s Warm Springs side named after her.

Today, a statue epitomizing the ski stance she is best known for will be unveiled in Sun Valley’s Festival Meadow as the meadow is renamed Champions Meadow in honor of the growing number of Sun Valley Olympian statues there.

Street will get to see the sculpture for the first time when the dedication takes place at 11 a.m. today—Monday, March 24.

The Audi FIS Ski World Cup rings have taken their place at River Run Plaza at the bottom of Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain.

There’ll be time for a few speeches—Street is providing commentary on the World Cup Finals for NBC as she practices for the 2026 Winter Olympics so she’ll undoubtedly have a few words to say. Then Wild West Skijoring and live music will follow.

Lindsey Vonn, who won a silver medal in the 2025 World Cup Finals Super-G on Sunday, said that the honor is overdue and that she would like to attend, if she can. She met Street when she was 9 and Street, already a legend by then, was signing autographs at a ski shop. That encounter, Vonn said, inspired her to become the best ski racer she can be.

“She should have gotten that long ago—there’s not many ski racers with their own statues,” Vonn said. “She is an amazing character, more than an athlete. She’s done a lot for the sport, inspiring a generation of skiers. I love seeing Americans excited about skiing--that gives me hope for the future.”

The City of Sun Valley organized the Wild West Skijoring Invitational, thinking that Europeans in town for the World Cup Finals would enjoy a taste of the west.

A crowd awaited the start of the World Cup Finals Downhill on Saturday. The races were ultimately cancelled.

Cowboys on horseback will pull skiers along a course snow groomers have mapped out in the meadow. Skiers will earn point for spearing rings hanging from poles as they zig zag around and over hay bales and jumps. Speed counts, too.

Josh Glick, who helps organize the Wood River Extreme Skijoring competition held every February, says this free event will feature professional skijoring racers in three categories. But there will be a twist in the form of a L-shaped turn.

The skijoring will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Live music by Prairie Blue will follow from 3:30 to 5 p.m. There also will be live music throughout the day.

MONDAY, March 24

World Cup revelers awaited Barenaked Ladies in downtown Ketchum Saturday night.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. VENDOR VILLAGE at Warm Springs Base Area

11 a.m.-noon PICABO STREET Sculpture Unveiling and Renaming of Festivals Meadow to Sun Valley Champions Meadow on Sun Valley Road

Noon-3 p.m. SUN VALLEY’S WILD WEST SKIJORING INVITATIONAL at Sun Valley Champions Meadow featuring professional skijoring racers

Noon-8:30 p.m. VENDORS and FOOD TRUCKS at Ketchum Town Square

This World Cup medal hanging around Marco Odermatt’s neck is backwards…but you get the idea.

Noon-5 p.m. SIP AND SHOP at JMcLaughin dress shop in Ketchum with 15 percent of sales going to Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation.

2 p.m. PHOTOGRAPHER SOFIA JARAMILLO will discuss her project “A New Winter,” which reframes vintage Sun Valley ski photos, substituting people of color for the Anglo skiers of yesteryear. The presentation, at The Argyros, will be moderated by Paul Ochi

3 p.m. ATHLETES SIGNING featuring racers using Atomic skis at Sturtevants on Main Street

3:30-5 p.m. LIVE MUSIC BY PRAIRIE BLUE, Sun Valley Champions Meadow (live music will be offered through the day)

Afternoon and early evening—SPEED PAINTER Evan Struck will be at Graham Galleries on Sun Valley Road in Ketchum painting speedy portraits of World Cup racers.

9 p.m. DANA CARVEY STAND UP SPECIAL at The Argyros (tickets for this and other Argyros events at https://www.theargyros.org/calendar)