The record books will be rewritten during Ullr Fest, Breckenridge’s annual appeasement of Ullr, the ever-vengeful, ever-smiteful, ever-withholding Norse god of snow (or skiing? or hunting? or bowstrings? — it’s unclear). I have it on good authority (History Channel’s Vikings) that many souls will be ceremoniously and quite gruesomely sacrificed during the four-day festival in exchange for Ullr’s continued blessing of winter snowfall. Also, there will be a talent show.
Some 888 people are needed on Main Street, Breckenridge this Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 4:15pm in order to gloriously shatter last year’s record. So, yeah, looks like it’s a start-drinking-at-lunch kind of day.
Never shot skied before? Nare ye worry; there will be experienced shot skiers on-hand ready to instruct you on the finer points of this delicate dance, including holding the shot ski, lifting the shot ski and drinking from the shot ski. It’s essentially a massive team-building exercise, only it’s done at the behest of an angry, pelt-covered Norse god.
No word on what the hooch of choice will be, but my guess is mead…or Pappy Van Winkle’s. 
