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Pinnacle Race Series

Every Wednesday on Mount Crested Butte the Pinnacle Race Series kicks off at 5:45pm free of charge thanks to the folks at Alpine Orthopedics. The 5 weeks of racing will be combined for an overall winner to be declared on August...
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Review: TGR’s Way of Life

Going into Teton Gravity Research’s newest film, Way of Life, I was prepared for a letdown.  TGR’s last movie was good, but nothing special, and we had just finished Sherpas Cinema’s Into the Mind.  However, a simple me...
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Review of Meathead Films “No Matter What”

For over ten years, Vermont-based Meathead Films has produced movies that make east coasters proud to call their humble hills of the Appalachian Mountains home.  In their eleventh film, the Meatheads had to work hard and be cr...
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Float Bag

Airbags are not for cars anymore!

Gear of the Week Review! Having a small pressurized air canister with large balloons on your back has been added to the new recipe for better luck, while traveling avalanche prone terrain. The BCA Float 36 is a new addition to ...
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Review: PBP’s Tracing Skylines

The Meeting 9 rolled on with the showing of Poor Boyz Prouctions’ latest effort, Tracing Skylines. The film documents six trips that encompass the different variations of the sport of freeskiing in locations around the world....
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Tour the Divide: June 8th Start

The Tour Divide is the longest off-pavement race totaling over 2,754 miles of mostly forest dirt road. Starting from Banff, Alberta Canada it crosses the continental divided until Antelope Wells, New Mexico USA. The route climb...
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To Teton Pass South

Top 5 Do and Don’ts of a Skin Track

Winter 2011-2012 has been one to remember. Epic pow records? No. Unreal backcountry conditions? Definitely no. Instead, we’ve had a notably lamer snow year that has created a mediocre (at best) to extremely shaddy snowpack (m...
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Bike Week: Schedule of Events

Crested Butte’s very own celebration of the bicycle known as Bike Week is back. There are the usual suspects of fun with Friday’s World Championship chainless down Kebler Pass and Sunday’s Bridges of the Butte...
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38th Annual Al Johnson Uphill Downhill Race

For the 38th year the usual suspects came out to race and costume for the Al Johnson Uphill Downhill race! The lack of snow in the valley especially the wind affected North Face changed the course from the usual Last Steep endi...
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Dream Factory

TGR’s “The Dream Factory” Wraps Up The Meeting 8

The Meeting 8 closed strong with Teton Gravity Research’s feature film, “The Dream Factory.”   The film is a tribute to Alaska, skiing’s mecca and TGR’s most frequented destination since it first began exploring Ame...
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