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Gravity Groms Factory Team

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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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 ...
by 4. Seth Tucker
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Recap: The Meeting 10

This weekend, we walked over the Elks for the 10th year of a great gathering simply known as The Meeting.  For those who don’t know, The Meeting is a showing of all the biggest ski and snowboard movies of the year, displayed...
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Two Plank co-founder Ben Somrak introducing Corey Tibljas

Two Plank Productions “Because” Premieres to a Rowdy and Entertained Crowd

This Friday night, Two Plank Productions held the world premiere of their newest feature film, “Because,” in a buzzing and packed Grand Ballroom in Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado.  Anticipation was high as “Because” is Tw...
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meathead Films

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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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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EVENTS
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Sweetgrass Productions “Solitaire” Showing at WSCU Dec. 5th

Sweetgrass Productions‘ third film, “Solitaire”, will be showing at Western’s University Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Dec. 5th.  The doors are at 6:30.  It’s $3 for students and $5 for everyone ...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Taos Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships 2012

The first weekend of March I joined a large group of Crested Butte skiers to go compete at the Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships in Taos, NM.  Having never been to Taos, I was delighted to find a mountain littered with sp...
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Spin the Doctor Enduro Results

The inaugural “Spin the Doctor” race was held this Sunday on the Doctors Park Trail.  The event, put on by Flow Farm Dirt Productions, brought a new level of intensity to the mind-blowing 5.8 mile downhill singletr...
by 4. Seth Tucker
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MEDIA
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“The Couple’s Ride” from Dakine

Maybe you have tried to take that special someone on a bike ride and it went a little something like this.   This video from Dakine is hilarious.  Or maybe you have been the victim of a relationship that was a little more str...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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