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Will gets deep on Purple Ridge. Photo: Peter Smith

Pre-Thanksgiving Backcountry Storm Gallery

The resort opens this week, but the November snow has had locals getting after it all month.  We visited the Anthracites and went back to Purple Ridge for another installment in our impromptu early-season gallery series.  Bry...
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Tejay Van Garderen Wins Stage 2 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Coming out of nowhere to win in the last 300 meters of the uphill finish in Mt. Crested Butte, Tejay Van Garderen won Stage 2 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.   The 24 year-old Boulder resident (originally from Bozeman, MT) w...
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First Real Snow, Not Great for Skiing

Last week’s snow was pretty exciting.  If you were ready, how could you not try and get out there?  We had about 2″ in town, which could mean anything from 2″ – 24″ up high, but it ended up being...
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Ed Checks in from Peru – #spedgoestosouthamerica

Ed Dujardin has taken a leave of absence from the Crested Butte community this summer on a magnificent journey to South America.  While this legendary babysitter and waitron at the Secret Stash will be missed until his return ...
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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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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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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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Scott Krankala descends a couloir off of Purple Ridge

October Snow Gallery from Chris Miller

Chris Miller is always getting after it.  With the early season snow and good conditions, locals in Crested Butte were skiing lines that are normally skied at the end of the season. Check out this gallery with Chris and his fr...
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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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Will Dujardin smashes a pillow in Psycho Rocks. Photo: Eliot Rosenberg

Finally Snow in January – Photo Gallery

Things were looking pretty bleak for a while there.  To the rescue came a magical southern flow with  9″ of wet snow at Crested Butte Mountain Resort Saturday night, followed by another 4″ of lighter, colder snow ...
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