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The Crested Butte Gear Exchange at 322 Belleview

Longtime snowboard coach Brett Conover recently opened up the Crested Butte Gear Exchange at 322 Belleview.  After moving to the Gunnison valley 10 years ago to go to Western with a brief 3-year stint in Aspen 3 winters ago, B...
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Blunck Starts North Face Park and Pipe Open Series

Crested Butte Olympic hopeful Aaron Blunck is set to begin his 2013 competition season this weekend at the North Face Park and Pipe Open Series at Copper Mountain, CO.  The sixteen year old CB local will be up against sixty-fo...
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Conundrum Couloir Skiing

Packy Westfeldt and TJ David over in Aspen get after it. This little POV from last week out in the Elks on Conundrum should give you just a little taste of what it takes to get up on top of a 14er and ski a sick couloir on the ...
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The Eye of the Condor Returns

photo: http://www.laparva.cl/eyeofthecondor/   The Eye of the Condor is back.  Returning after a successful inaugural contest, The Eye of the Condor is a week long film and photo competition that will take place at La Pa...
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TGR’s “The Dream Factory” Wraps Up The Meeting 8

The Meeting 8 closed strong with Teton Gravity Research’s feature film, “The Dream Factory.”   The film is a tribute to Alaska, skiing’s mecca and TGR’s most frequented destination since it first began exploring Ame...
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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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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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July 18th Results Pinnacle Race Series

The second round of 5 Pinnacle racers was another great showing of the West Elk Community of bike enthusiasts. There was a great number people showing up for free great events was spectacular again. The Left Arm Tan Band was pl...
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Speedflying Gothic

Derek Johnson and Peter Smith are at it again, and this flight is definitely an eye-opener.  Speedflying through some of the massive faces on the back of Gothic and then over the huge exposure facing east, this quick clip wil...
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Aaron Blunck won the Open Class Halfpipe at USASA Nationals in Copper. Photo: USASA

Aaron Blunck Wins USASA Nationals Halfpipe, CB Represents

Hannah Watt-Sax Earns 3rd in Open Women Skiercross, Brooks Hudson takes 2nd in 8-9 Boys Skiercross. Crested Butte athletes are at it again.  USASA Nationals just finished today at Copper, CO.  On Sunday, 15 year-old Aaron Blu...
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