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Matt Evans Snowbird Comp Runs and POW

Last weekend, Matt Evans and the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team went to Snowbird to compete in the Junior Freeskiing Nationals.  Day one of the 15-18 boys was postponed because it snowed 15 inches overnight!  Matt made an...
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Randy Evans Earns Sickbird and 5th Place at Moonlight Basin

Crested Butte Takes the Coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle at Back-to-Back FWT Events In it’s first time at Moonlight Basin, the Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier went off March 23-24.  Moonlight Basin pulled out...
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Mountain Biking Community Film

Check out the film “In Good Company” It details the struggle the Bellingham Washington Community is facing in regards of using public lands for mountain biking. Get out May 23rd 1pm to help out CBMBA on the first tr...
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Winter Is Here, But Be Careful

The Crested Butte area is about to get its first taste of real winter. Social media will go ballistic. Your most hard-core friends will post pictures of their first faceshots of the season. It’s an exciting time. However, if ...
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Pete Smith and Derek Johnson Speedriding Around Crested Butte

Pete Smith and Derek Johnson have been seriously getting after it with our warmer-than-normal February. Ticking off big lines in the Elks, these guys have been pioneering speedriding lines everywhere.  Enjoy this quick clip pu...
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CBMST Freeride Takes on Snowbird

Four members of the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team went to Snowbird, Utah to ski in the IFSA Junior National Series.  Matt Evans, Josie Byron, Brittany Barefield, and Patrick Curvin took on a stacked field of 55 men and 22...
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Trent Bona, International Man of Photography

North Carolina boy turned Crested Butte, Trent Bona has really made some strides shooting photos and getting his name out there.  Trent is a good friend of ours and you guys will be seeing a lot of his work here at West Elk Pr...
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Introducing Project Zero And Backcountry StartsHere.com

We talk about avalanches a lot on this website.  From reposting the CBAC’s daily discussion to sharing scary/educational videos, we want you to have access to as much information as possible because we don’t want a...
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Top 5 Do and Don’ts of a Skin Track

Winter 2011-2012 has been one to remember. Epic pow records? No. Unreal backcountry conditions? Definitely no. Instead, we’ve had a notably lamer snow year that has created a mediocre (at best) to extremely shaddy snowpack (m...
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CBMR Terrain Parks: Painter Boy and Cascade Updates, Jib Park Closing

There are some interesting developments concerning the terrain parks at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. First, the Painter Boy and Cascade Park (the big one on Gold Link) is scheduled to open around Christmas, snow permitting. Â...
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