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9th Annual Crested Butte Classic Results

The 9th Annual Crested Butte Classic took place this past Saturday, coinciding with the local festival, Vinotok.  A week earlier than usual, riders gathered at 7 AM in town for the “group ride.” The course of 100 m...
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Crested Butte Avalanche Center: Beacon Brush Up Review

Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain Guides, and The Alpineer’s Inaugural Beacon Brush-Up Day was a HUGE success with well over 100 people coming out to ‘brush-up’ on their beacon skills with...
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WSCU Rail Jam February 15th

Come out to Western State Colorado University t for the 4th Annual Campus Rail Jam this Friday evening.  Last year’s event was a ton of fun and drew some awesome talent.  This year, first place wins a backcountry experi...
by Edward Dujardin 2.0
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Summiting Mt. Elbert: Colorado’s Highest Peak

After a very sketchy spring, the snowpack has finally settled enough to get on top of Colorado’s highest peaks.  So Alex Stevenson, Patrick Sullivan, Haley Tamberi, and Zach Vaughter made their way to Mt. Elbert, which a...
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Vincent Gagnier Epic Tramping

Vincent Gagnier’s Tramp Montage shows you exactly why you should probably get your kid or yourself a trampoline.  It’s just over a minute with a great soundtrack, so start watching.  If you have these tricks in th...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Subaru Freeride Series Crested Butte LIVE FEED

The action kicks off in Big Hourglass at 9:30 AM MST.  We’ve embedded the code here, so if it isn’t working, don’t blame us and go try it on subarufreerideseries.com.  We have a lot of local heavy hitters in...
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Shane and the McConkeys

This is a heavy 17-minute video filmed a week before Shane’s untimely death in 2009. It shows Shane just being a normal guy, cracking jokes, talking about about his daughter and rocker skis.  Take a look back at how Shan...
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“McConkey” Nominated for Emmy

One of our favorite films, “McConkey”, has been nominated for a Sports Emmy after it’s run on the Starz channel last year.  Local ski film company, MSP Films, put a lot of time, love, and emotion into produc...
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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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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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