Tim Stangel
Killington, Vermont, USA | Active: 2024-present public record | Known for: telemark park skiing, Killington park crew, WTRP: Killington | Current: Killington/Pico park-crew-linked skier
The rail at Killington runs fast when the Vermont surface freezes overnight, and Tim Stangel’s skiing makes that speed look stranger than usual: free heel, knee dropping, skis still pointed cleanly into the next feature. Public sources use both “Tim Stangel” and “Tim Stangle,” but the record connects the same Killington-based skier with the Instagram handle @dastangler69. Abby Allaire’s Park Profile describes him as a skier and snowboarder who grew up at Ski Ward in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, started riding park on a snowboard around age ten or eleven, then returned to skiing after watching LINE Traveling Circus.
Stangel’s current public identity is tied to Killington’s park culture rather than a formal contest résumé. SAM’s 2024 Terrain Park Contest coverage lists Tim Stangel as part of the Killington park crew, a group working across Killington Resort and Pico Mountain with nearly 200 features maintained across ten parks. That context matters because his skiing is closely connected to the terrain he helps shape and ride: rails, doghouses, pop-up parks, icy transitions, spring laps and East Coast park features that demand precise speed control. Abby Allaire’s profile also notes that he discovered telemark after seeing a skier in the woods at Pico, then started experimenting with free-heel gear before making telemark his park-skiing identity.
WTRP: Killington gives Stangel a clear video marker, listing him in the rider order with Kevin Merchant, Joer Sabella, Simon Graf, Davis Taylor, Kyle Kuhn, Jamie Hamlin, Sam Mitchell, Alec Harding and other East Coast park skiers. His profile is niche but distinctive: not World Cup slopestyle, not a major street-film archive, but telemark park skiing inside one of the strongest freestyle environments in Vermont. For skipowd.tv, Stangel is best presented as a local creative park figure whose value comes from style, equipment choice and free-heel control on features usually dominated by alpine bindings.
