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Blunck Big Bag Invitational Photo Gallery

A lot of fun was had yesterday afternoon at the Aaron Blunck Big Bag Invitational at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. As we’ve reported, CBMR has purchased an air bag for training and for tubing.  Yesterday was the first t...
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Crested Butte BC Conditions Report

Crested Butte received its first real snow of the year, and the locals have been getting after it.  As usual, an early layer has made the snowpack touchy, as evidenced by the slide on Mt. Baldy.  Here is a quick peak at the g...
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Community Profile: Ashley Bembenek

Ashley Bembenek is poised to make a big splash in the world of women’s freeskiing this coming winter.   The 27 year-old from Eden, Utah has lived in a variety of places before finally landing in Crested Butte in 2010, when ...
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Adaptive Sports Center Year-in-Review Video

The Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte is changing lives every day.  This 9-minute video recaps some of their highlights they caught on camera this year over the winter and the summer.  Make sure YOU help the Adaptive Sp...
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Dual Premiere of “Further” and “Dream Factory” goes down at Western

A dual premiere of “Further” and “Dream Factory” was put on at the Taylor Auditorium on the Western campus to benefit the WSCU Freeride Team, the CB Avalanche Center, and the SoCO 14er Expedition.  If y...
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Skiing in July: Augusta

Words: Alex Stevenson Photos: Alex Stevenson and Julia Van Raalte So it’s summer, I get it.  But rarely a day goes by that I don’t miss skiing. Lately this website has featured mostly dirt oriented articles so I figured I ...
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Francesca Pavillard-Cain Checks in After Chamonix FWT

Our friend Francesca took an unfortunate fall in her first ever FWT at Chamonix this last weekend.  No worries, though, she’s skiing pow in Switzerland getting ready for her next competition at Fieberbrunn in Austria thi...
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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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Young Rippers Overrun Crested Butte for IFSA Junior Nationals

Photos: Laci Wright  |   CBMST Stumbles on Home Turf.  AltaBird Skiers Strong  This past weekend, the best junior big mountain skiers in the country descended on Crested Butte for the IFSA Junior Nationals.  Expectations w...
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Kokopelli Trail Race: Neil Beltchenko

Crested Butte local Neil Beltchenko moved to Crested Butte after attending Western State Colorado University.  Like most people, he got on a bike.  But unlike most people, Neil discovered that he likes riding his bike for ver...
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