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Crested Butte Snowsports Foundation Ski Swap October 23 and 24

The Crested Butte Snowsports Foundation Ski Swap is your chance to get used gear at a sweet price and support the most important scholarship providers for snow sports athletes in the valley.  Junior Skiers, Snowboarders, and X...
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Balancing Goals and Survival in the Backcountry with Donny Roth

Donny Roth is an experienced mountain athlete and ski guide. We are lucky enough to have him and many other professionals here in our valley.  He gave a similar version of this talk to the CB community back in December at the ...
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Snow hits the West Elks April 16 POW

That snow we talked about before the weekend delivered.  The Irwin Media House reported 2.5′ on their deck.  The snow was heavy and deep, a lot of in the valleys was on bare ground.  However, the Anthracites were skiin...
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Ray and Will ride Rattlesnake in Hartmans. Photo: Ray Harter

Riding this weekend? CBMBA Trail Report 5-4-12

There is still some snow around, but are you ready for 5-6 months of mountain biking?   Hartman Rocks has been good to go for a while now, and is getting dustier by the day.  But up at the north end of the valley the snow...
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FWT Courmayeur – Mont Blanc Highlights and Results

After weather delayed the event for a week, the Freeride World Tour stop at Courmayeur Mont Blanc finally went down yesterday morning with the American Sammy Luebke taking the snowboard title and FWT rookie Frenchman Loic Collo...
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Aaron Blunck Takes Second at FIS World Cup

Aaron Blunck is off to a fast start this year.  The seventeen year old Crested Buttian kicked off his 2013/2014 winter competition season with a second place at the FIS World Cup at Cardrona Alpine Resort in New Zealand.  Imm...
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Crystal 4* FWQ BLOG and VIDEO from Rob Vandervoort

The FWQ 4-star event Crystal went down last week with Crested Butte’s own Mark Mikos and Ashley Bembenek winning the Men Ski and Women Ski titles!  Rob Vandervoort was there laying it down on his snowboard and was able t...
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Tatum Monod Stomps Double Backflip

Check Canadian freeskier chick Tatum Monod stomp a double back in Retallack, BC.  This is super impressive.  Talk about pushing it.   Check out Tatums’ website here: tatummonod.com
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Local Snowboard POW Edit at CBMR

Thomas McLean was out getting it all season.  Especially that part where it snowed for 6 weeks. You probably saw the tall, goofy guy snaking your line with a quick, “sorry, dude” and you weren’t sure if the ...
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“Fall to Spring” by Yeti Cycles Features Crested Butte

Check out Yeti Cycles’ edit “Fall to Spring.”  The edit begins trailriding Vail’s back bowls during the fall season and finishes with a neat segment on Doctor’s Park in West Elk’s Taylor Ca...
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