Cirque Series Expands To East Coast

Popular US-based short distance trail race series held in ski resorts is expanding to Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire and Killington, Vermont. This announcement comes after their expansion announcement to Washington State late last year.

All of their races are in ski resorts, all are fairly short (for trail races, especially ones in the US), and all are single distance events. All races are owned by the same company that seems to move races to different locations from year to year, rather than trying to establish an event for historical purposes.

In many ways this feels a bit like an American answer to European skyrunning. There’s a failed history of trying to bring the classic European sky racing to the US and much can be said about why it failed, but this Cirque Series is probably the closest to a ‘series of races’ that resemble the ‘Skyrunning Series’. Emphasis here on the ‘series’ part, not so much the exact resemblance of the events itself.