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Spin the Doctor Enduro Results

The inaugural “Spin the Doctor” race was held this Sunday on the Doctors Park Trail.  The event, put on by Flow Farm Dirt Productions, brought a new level of intensity to the mind-blowing 5.8 mile downhill singletr...
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Grant Spear Season Edit

Grant Spear, your local Colorado Freeskier ninja-commando and Gravity Groms coach, put together his season edit from last year.  Considering our lack of snow, it still looks like Grant had a lot of fun (is that getting cliché...
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CB FWQ 2 Star Postponed

Today, the 2 Star Freeride World Qualifier, originally scheduled for the end of the month, was postponed until Wednesday, March 18th, where it will run as a one day event preceding the FWQ 4 Star.  The snow situation at Crest...
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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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FWT Andorra Vallnord-Arcalís LIVE Replay

The FWT Andorra stop in Vallnord-Arcalís went off last night while we were sleeping.  Kristofer Turdell (2:02:02) won it for ski men, Arianna Tricomi (1:33:50) won Ski women with a 360, Manuela Mandl (1:12:31) took the Snowbo...
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David Chodounsky Named to US Olympic Alpine Team

Crested Butte will have another Olympian representing our little mountain town and our country at the Sochi Olympics after Aaron Blunck was named to the US Olympic Freeskiing team last week.  David Chodounsky was named to the ...
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Matisse Sleds Pow

Yesterday Crested Butte received a surprise two inches. Irwin received twelve, on top of the 40 inches from the weekend’s storm. So Nick Matisse got out on his sled and got the goods.
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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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IFSA Junior Nationals, Festevol, Big Air on Elk Set for Saturday

photo: Matt Leonard From sunrise to way past sundown, Crested Butte is going to be rowdy this Saturday.  Teenage shredders will kick the party off with the finals of the IFSA Junior Nationals on Crested Butte’s famed North ...
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Non-Native Holiday Edit

The Non-Native crew wants to wish you season’s greetings and happy holidays.  They went tree-shopping and pillow-finding with the good snow last week. Hopefully we get some more for Christmas!
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