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Chili and Beer Festival

Photo: Courtesy of CB Chamber | This Saturday is sure to be a fun one at the base area of Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Breweries from all over are on hand with their finest brews to take the heat off the chili prepared by Cr...
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CBMST Finds the Podium Often at Home at IFSA Regional

Crested Butte Mountain Resort hosted the first regional competition of the 2014 season in the IFSA Central Region this past weekend.  Freeride teams from around Colorado and New Mexico travelled to Crested Butte to take on the...
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Conundrum Couloir Skiing

Packy Westfeldt and TJ David over in Aspen get after it. This little POV from last week out in the Elks on Conundrum should give you just a little taste of what it takes to get up on top of a 14er and ski a sick couloir on the ...
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WSCU Adventure Film Festival Kicks off Wednesday

The 2nd annual WSCU Adventure Film Festival is bringing 3 nights of great action sports films to Gunnison this week.  MSP Films’ “Superheroes of Stoke” is playing Wednesday, followed by the Grand Inga Project...
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Rob Vandervoort 2011 Edits

Check out these edits from local boy Rob Vandervoort, tearing up the resort in 2011.  If the storm cycles keep continuing in our favor, and the snowpack holds (unlikely), we can hope to have these areas open in early January. ...
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The Gravity Ranch: Charter Membership Offer Expires Sunday

Check out this press release from the Gravity Ranch, the action sports facility to be constructed across Highway 135 from CB South.  We covered the first announcement of the facility here on West Elk Project, when it was orig...
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Zach Guy Takes 1st at Spin the Doctor – RESULTS

The 2013 Spin the Doctor Enduro went down on Sunday on the famous Doctor Park trail in Taylor Canyon.  Zach Guy broke the 17 minute mark with a 16 minute 58 second time.  Local favorite Colin Pickett flatted right at the star...
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Randy Evans Earns Sickbird and 5th Place at Moonlight Basin

Crested Butte Takes the Coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle at Back-to-Back FWT Events In it’s first time at Moonlight Basin, the Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier went off March 23-24.  Moonlight Basin pulled out...
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The Run Around in the PNW

This spring, the Run Around crew teamed up with Two Plank Productions and headed to the Pacific Northwest to find the goods.  Washington, unlike the rest of the continental U.S., had an above average year, which tends to be de...
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Crested Butte Freeride Athletes Stack Up Podiums on Sunday

Yesterday was a great day for Crested Butte freeride athletes across the globe.  Athletes from CB were competing the Subaru Freeride Series in Snowbird, Utah, the IFSA Regional junior event at Aspen, Colorado, and the Freeride...
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