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CBMST Defends Home Turf at IFSA Junior Regional Series

Crested Butte Mountain Resort held a one day big mountain competition last Saturday that served as part of the IFSA Junior Regional series.  Fifty-four skiers and snowboarders attacked Big Chute and Paradise Cliffs for a fast ...
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Tanner Perkins Wins U16 Rocky Central Downhill Championships

Tanner Perkins is a bad man.  Well, a bad 16 year-old, but you’ll understand.  He is probably one of the best raw talents in Crested Butte and has been leading the race program on the Crested Butte Mountain Sports team ...
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Gravity Groms 4th of July Parade Float Video

The Gravity Groms won “Best Float” of the 4th of July parade in Crested Butte.  Gravity Groms’ coach and frequent West Elk Project contributor Andrew Arnold put together this 3 minute video showcasing the jum...
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Big Mountain Enduro Goes off in Crested Butte

The Big Mountain Enduro series held it’s 2nd stop in Crested Butte last weekend.  With 6 stages held over 2 days, there was a lot of fun riding showcasing the diverse trails the Evolution Bike Park at Crested Butte Mount...
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Psycho Rocks with the Meinzer Bros.

If you have ridden the Psycho Rocks trail at the Evolution Bike Park at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, you know it is awesome, scary, exhilarating, super technical, and freaking sweet all at the same time.  Shelby Meinzer, loc...
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Julien Lopez Caught in Massive Avalanche in FWT Competition VIDEO

This morning we woke up to some pretty incredible news that Julien Lopez had triggered an avalanche during his run at the second attempt at the Freeride World Tour stop in Fieberbrunn (the women skiers skied earlier in the week...
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Drew Petersen #pushpeaks Edit

Summer time for skiers in Colorado is glorious.  There are still big lines you can tackle and you always get those amusing looks at trailheads.  For Drew Petersen, who released this banger at CBMR this winter, balancing work ...
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Will Dujardin making the best of low-angle blue bird in the Anthracites on Tuesday. Photo: Trent Bona

Photo Gallery: November Snow Brings Powder and Sketchiness

The storm last weekend was a welcome mental relief.  Check out this photo gallery of the new snow. As for snow conditions, they were sketchy, to say the least.  Skiers triggered an avalanche in College bowl on the NW side of ...
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Summer Crested Butte Time Lapse from Mikey Curran

Mikey has dropped some time lapses before, and they are awesome.  The one from this summer is even better. Take a couple minutes to watch this edit! It will make you happy. TimeLapse Edit from Crested Butte from Mike Curran o...
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Big Mountain Enduro Series 2014 Stop #1 Snowmass Highlights

The Big Mountain Enduro Series just kicked off the 2014 season at Snowmass on the other side of the Elk Mountains.  From their Vimeo Page: The first race of the BME enduro mountain biking summer race season did not disappoint...
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