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FWQ 2-Star & 4-Star Coming up this Weekend at Crested Butte

The Freeride World Qualifier series is rolling in to town this weekend with skiing and snowboarding across 3 days as riders try to qualify for the Freeride World Tour.  There are two events on tap with the 2-star going down on...
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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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Doctor’s Park Ends Poorly

image: www.visitcrestedbutte.com If you haven’t ridden Doctor’s Park (424) yet, make it a priority. The trail rides 20ish miles of which 7 is awesome single track that can also be shuttled to if you don’t want...
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Blunck and Chodounsky Named to Olympic Team

On an exciting day in Crested Butte Olympic hopes for Pyeongchang, both halfpipe skier, Aaron Blunck, and slalom skier, David Chodounsky, were named to the Olympic Team.   Above Photo credit: Nolan Blunck After his 15th-plac...
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Tom Runcie takes 3rd Place and Sickbird at Snowbird

Crested Butte represented at Snowbird!  Eight Crested Butte athletes were skiing in the finals.  Tom Runcie led the charge taking 3rd place and earning the coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle. Despite poor snow condi...
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Tom Runcie’s Trip to Chamonix with Glen Plake and Team Julbo

Words by Tom Runcie When I found out I had earned a trip to spend a week with skiing icon Glen Plake in his adopted winter home of Chamonix, France, I was breathless.  For nearly three decades Plake has been a true hero of the...
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Sunset Lightning Gallery from Sam Evans

Local social media blew up with some ridiculous photos of a lightning storm over Crested Butte at sunset on Sunday night (6-28-15). There was even a rainbow in there for good measure.  Sam Evans took some beautiful photos of ...
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Alpine Odyssey 2012 Results

The 2nd annual Alpine Odyssey 100K, a 64-mile cross country race, brought the return of Lance Armstrong and 274 challengers. Cameron Chambers won the event with a time of 3:58:58, setting a new race record, while Amy Beisel too...
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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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JP Auclair Street Segment, Andreas Fransson “Happy Winter”, Liz Daley

It’s really sad to hear of yet more avalanche deaths in the ski world.  Freeskiing legend JP Auclair and big mountain line pioneer Andreas Fransson both lost their lives in an avalanche in Chile on Monte San Lorenzo ye...
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