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David Chodounsky Named to US Olympic Alpine Team

Crested Butte will have another Olympian representing our little mountain town and our country at the Sochi Olympics after Aaron Blunck was named to the US Olympic Freeskiing team last week.  David Chodounsky was named to the ...
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A Season Recap from the King of Soul

Its spring and everybody is churning out their end of season edits.  Well, this ski bum doesn’t have video equipment, so I’m offering a hand-written, somewhat jovial account of my season (in picturebook form!).  In true b...
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De-Genderfying Skiing by Francesca Pavillard-Cain

After reading the West Elk Project article on #yesallwomen I couldn’t help but contemplate the many issues brought up in the article. Mainly I was wondering why this all hadn’t bothered me so much before. After all my whole...
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Opening Day Photo Gallery

The lifts are spinning!  The crowds have come out for the Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s opening day.  Ullr opened the skiing with his Snow Maidens leading the people’s prayer for snow.  The champagne was popped...
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Countdown to Opening Day: Splitboarding the CB BC

Welcome to our Countdown to Opening Day series. During the 30 days leading up to opening day at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, we will be featuring a clip or edit from winter in the West Elks. This is video 24 of 30. With one w...
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Will Dujardin making the best of low-angle blue bird in the Anthracites on Tuesday. Photo: Trent Bona

Photo Gallery: November Snow Brings Powder and Sketchiness

The storm last weekend was a welcome mental relief.  Check out this photo gallery of the new snow. As for snow conditions, they were sketchy, to say the least.  Skiers triggered an avalanche in College bowl on the NW side of ...
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Ed Dujardin Spring Shred

Check out this shredit of Ed Dujardin getting after during the 2019 spring in the CB backcountry.  When the goods are good you should probably keep skiing them, right?!  And the CAST system rules. PS. Check his 2019 mini golf...
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Sean Pettit Season Recap

Post Cards from Poor Boyz Since breaking out as a 16 year old phenom a few years back, Sean Pettit has crushed it every year.  Calling it his “best season to date,” Pettit takes us to some mouth watering big mounta...
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Tom Runcie’s 2012 Season Edit

Low snow years can still be a lot of fun.  There aren’t many people I know that have as much fun day in and day out as Tom Runcie does.  This year, Tom got 3rd place at Taos, 3rd place at Snowbird, and Sickbird at Snowb...
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HD Downhill Highlights: Wildflower Rush

The Wildflower Rush is two weeks behind us, but this awesome little edit just surfaced over the weekend.  I haven’t seen anyone capture our mountain in a mountain bike edit like this before.  Make sure you full screen i...
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