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Pre-Season in NZ with Sam Lee

Winter is fast approaching in New Zealand. It has already snowed at higher elevations.  Sam Lee (see Blade Nation) knows the importance of being ready. And he is very, very, serious.
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Paragliding Gothic

Derek Johnson is the owner of Sickbird Airsports, a speedflying instruction, guiding, and equipment company in Crested Butte.  In this video, Derek gets to enjoy Gothic Mountain in a way that most will never experience.
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1992 Extreme Skiing Comp on Hall of Fame

Crested Butte has long been the unofficial home of “extreme” skiing.  It has played host to the longest running free ride competition in North America.  While the word “extreme” has gone out of style (...
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The Lazyboy: Short Documentary of Alex Cairns

photo: http://cm.mountainlifemag.ca Alex Cairns, of Squamish, British Colombia was born with Spinal Bifida, leaving him paralyzed from the knees down.  When he was fifteen, his grandmother signed him up for his first sit ski ...
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Orage Masters 8 Official Video

Orage came out with the official edit from the Masters.  More proof that Orage Masters is the best competition/party of the season.  We can’t imagine the establishment at Sun Valley was very happy when they saw this vid...
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Full length CSFU Movie by Creature Skateboards

Just in time for summer, Thrasher Magazine has released the full “CSFU” movie by Creature Skateboards.  It is fifty four minutes of awesome, which is long, but it will suck you in.  The soundtrack rocks (has it...
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Pip Hunt and the K2 Alliance in Switzerland

Crested Butte native Pip Hunt, Mckenna Peterson, and Amie Engerbretson recently returned from a trip to Murren, Switzerland, where they were filming for K2 Skis and Pretty Faces, an all female ski film spearheaded by Lynsey Dy...
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Summiting Mt. Elbert: Colorado’s Highest Peak

After a very sketchy spring, the snowpack has finally settled enough to get on top of Colorado’s highest peaks.  So Alex Stevenson, Patrick Sullivan, Haley Tamberi, and Zach Vaughter made their way to Mt. Elbert, which a...
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Beartooth Summer Session Competition Highlights

Want to ski this summer?  Head up to Beartooth Pass, Montana, where you can get some great lift accessed summer skiing, as well as some pass-road laps.  Check out the highlights from last summer’s Beartooth Summer Sessi...
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LymeLight: The Story of Freeskier Angeli VanLaanen Living With Lyme Disease

Need some inspiration?  Check out the story of Angeli VanLaanen.  Angeli grew up in the Pacific Northwest skiing and enjoying life to the fullest.  Soon enough, she was competing in halfpipe with the best skiers in the world...
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