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CBMST Freeride Looks to Focus after Snowbird

The Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team opened up it’s freeride season at the Snowbird IFSA National Series event in Utah over January 16-19, 2015.  The CBMST sent Carson Hildebrandt in the 12-14 male ski division, Britta...
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Local FWT Athletes Fundraiser at Butte 66 on Friday, Dec 5th

Hey Gunnison Valley! We have 2 amazing women representing our little part of Colorado on the Freeride World Tour this year.  Frequent visitors to our site are no strangers to Francesca Pavillard-Cain and Mary Boddington̵...
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CB Avy Center Awareness Night and Beacon Brush Up – Dec 6 & 7

Alright friends, we have a lot of local support to give out this weekend. The Crested Butte Avalanche Center is holding it’s 12th Annual Avalanche Awareness Night at the Lodge at Mountaineer Square on Saturday, December...
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CBMST Represents in the Top 10 at Grand Targhee

Last week the CBMST took half the team to Grand Targhee, Wyoming for their last IFSA National before the North American Championships at Snowbird in April. Five freeride athletes and 3 U12s took on the awesome terrain off the S...
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Sunny by Level 1 Productions Sets the Bar High to Open The Meeting 8

The Meeting 8 in Aspen kicked off its showcase of this year’s ski movies with the highly acclaimed Level 1 Productions film, Sunny.  Sunny cleaned up at this year’s IF3 Awards, taking home the title for Best Editing, Best ...
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Avalanche Accident on Schuylkill

As we finally see our first real storm cycles of the year, the backcountry is proving to be very active here in Crested Butte, and throughout the state. Two skiers were caught and injured in an avalanche on Mt. Schuylkill̵...
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Tom Runcie and Friends’ First Turns of the Season VIDEO

After a couple weeks of a solid winter weather pattern that brought light snow to the high peaks around Crested Butte, winter arrived in a hurry when a big system left us with a few inches in town and several feet in the Irwin ...
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Jet Stream Shift to Benefit Colorado

Is it here yet??  You have been probably been trying to wait patiently.  Well, your patience will start to pay off (hopefully!). Photo: Opensnow.com The jet stream, storm track, or as I like to call it, the hyperconductor of...
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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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Aaron Blunck Added to US Freeskiing Development Team

This past Friday, Aaron Blunck got good news from Ben Verge, the newly appointed head development coach for the US Freeskiing Team.  Aaron has been named to US Freeskiing Development Team, getting one step closer to his dream ...
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