“I don’t really have any words,” the 28 year-old said after the tour’s final event on the Bec De Ross face in Verbier, Switzerland.
She explained at the finish line how she had found conditions tricky from the get-go in the last event of the tour, and was struggling to line up the features.
“I am just happy that I am down and walking and I am pretty stoked to take the overall,” she said.
Hotter went into the event, the Xtreme Verbier — at a hugely steep and intimidating venue — as the current women’s ski category leader, dropping in wearing the yellow bib.
But she struggled in the variable snow conditions on the Bec Des Ross, coming unstuck on her first large air, losing both her skis and tomahawking down the face.
However, she was quick to get back to her feet
Despite the crash and the fact she received a "no score" due to losing her skis, her previous results on the tour this season meant she still secured the overall champion title by 2500 points.
Fellow Kiwi Craig Murray was back in the bib on Saturday after missing the previous stop in Fieberbrunn, Austria due to a sternum injury. He was looking strong, putting together a big run, but came unstuck on a massive flat three.
Hotter will now look forward to celebrating her success with friends abroad and then with her family back in Ohakune in the coming weeks.
