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Freeskiing World Tour Highlights from Big Sky, Montana

The Freeskiing World Tour’s event went off last weekend with good snow and great skiing.  The skiing fields were stacked and Forrest Jillson ended up walking away with another win at Big Sky followed up by Andrew Pollard...
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Irwin Guides on Channel 7 News

Cory Reppenhagen of Denver’s Channel 7 News joined Irwin Guides for an Avalanche 1 course here in Crested Butte.  Great to see avalanche education getting mainstream press.
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Dave Sugnet Goin’ Rambo

CBMR steezeball Dave Sugnet enjoying the recent conditions around Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Goin’ Rambo from david sugnet on Vimeo.
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East Vail Avalanche POV

Terrifying POV footage from a recent avalanche in East Vail.  Lots of activity happening around Colorado.  Find a write up below the video from avy victim Austin Porzak, who is apparently a very experienced backcountry trave...
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CBAC Investigates Schuykill Slide

CBAC forecaster Evan Ross investigates the recent slide on Schuykill than ran 1000 feet and resulted in a partial burial.  Stupid dust. According to the CBAC Facebook, there was another large skier triggered avalanche from th...
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Crystal 4* FWQ BLOG and VIDEO from Rob Vandervoort

The FWQ 4-star event Crystal went down last week with Crested Butte’s own Mark Mikos and Ashley Bembenek winning the Men Ski and Women Ski titles!  Rob Vandervoort was there laying it down on his snowboard and was able t...
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FWT Haines AK Live Replay

One of the best shows in freeride went down on Monday, the Freeride World Tour at Haines.  After mediocre snow conditions and sketchy stuff at some of the previous events, the FWT Haines event went off quite nicely with Ryland...
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Rob Vandervoort CBMR 4 Star Redemption – VIDEO

Rob Vandervoort has been putting his time in.  After a hard crash last year on Hawk’s Nest that left him concussed, he was able to take a 3rd in the 2-star event and 2nd in the 4-star event.  Read his words and watch hi...
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Genius Device Makes any Home Ski In / Ski Out

Ski In / Ski Out seems like a luxury for some. Take it to the next level and make any place ski in / ski out with those super neat hoverboards!
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Daniel McFadden “All in a Day’s Work” POV

Daniel McFadden is one of those seriously-skilled FWQ athletes roaming around the west shredding everything he can (he took 5th on Big Hourglass in 2014).  But when he’s home in Summit County you have to shred everything...
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