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Check out this shredit of Ed Dujardin getting after during the 2019 spring in the CB backcountry. When the goods are good you should probably keep skiing them, right?! And the CAST system rules. PS. Check his 2019 mini golf edit here. Ed Dujardin Spring 2019 from West Elk Project on Vimeo.
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The competitive junior freeride season wrapped up in Kicking Horse, British Columbia last week at the IFSA North American Junior Freeride Championships. Ten percent of the overall field is invited to crown the finals’ winners and overall champions. After a hard-fought season earning points to get invited, the CBMST sent 11 athletes up to champs, […]
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If you haven’t yet seen the videos of West Elk Project co-founder Ed Dujardin teeing up some awesome lines this season on the @shredwardstomps Instagram, you should check out his mid-season POV edit. It features a hot soundtrack from A Shadow of Jaguar and a bunch of lines from the Crested Butte backcountry, CBMR, and […]
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Crested Butte Mountain Resort played host to an IFSA junior regional freeride competition on Saturday under a mix of cloudy skies and flat light. The classic Colorado chalky hard pack snow that we all know and love so well here in the Elk Mountains was ripping and skiers ranging from 12-18 showcased their skills on […]
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Mikey Curran has been putting together some awesome local content, not to mention his job for MSP Films, for more than the last few years. He got after it with local all-around great guy, Ryan Sullivan, to make this cool, woodsy-feel edit of mountain biking in CB. Check it out! FALL FLOW from Mikey Curran on Vimeo.
Gunnison local and WSCU freshman Bill Klein had a great season ripping around Crested Butte. Check out a couple of edits he made from his year. Bill Klein Self Edit 2015-16 from Bill Klein on Vimeo. Bill Klein 2015-16 POV Edit from Bill Klein on Vimeo.
After a couple weeks of a solid winter weather pattern that brought light snow to the high peaks around Crested Butte, winter arrived in a hurry when a big system left us with a few inches in town and several feet in the Irwin and Paradise Divide areas. (Words and video by Tom Runcie) Elk […]
After a slow and relatively snowless early season, things are happening for the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team. This past weekend, seven members of CBMST got out with Crested Butte Mountain Guides to take an introduction course on avalanche safety. The course consisted of two days of indoor and outdoor instruction. Students familiarized themselves with beacon function and […]
This is real and will be awesome. There will be a Santa Ski Crawl, which is one part record-setting attempt to get the most Santas on a slope at once, and one part pub-crawl, on Saturday, December 14th, 2013. The Santa Ski Crawl will start on the slopes at the Ice Bar at 2:30. At […]
Oz Scott is totally raising the bar for lines attainable on snow blades. I mean what can you say? When the snow isn’t that rad you just have to get radder. Thank you, Oz. Blader’s Paradise from West Elk Project on Vimeo.
The Bridger Brigade boys went to Chamonix in March for “the next level.” Matt and Randy Evans were joined by the Bridger Brigade regulars, Kyle Taylor, Ryan Walters, Axel Peterson, and Rob Raymond with Dave Rosenberger and others to make part 1 of their European adventure. They were told before they left: nothing will be […]
Check out this large controlled slide at Crystal Mountain. It seems like the avalanche danger is silly high everywhere but in our backyard. If it does go, however, it can go like this. )
8:00 PM, Friday, September 7th, 2012 Mountaineer Square Ball Room, Mt. Crested Butte, CO After two years of chasing snow all over the world, Two Plank Productions is set to release their most anticipated feature to date. “Because” follows the adventures of twenty-two of skiing’s top athletes as they pursue their dreams and take advantage […]
Check out this edit of Torin Yater-Wallace by the folks at Stept. We love how they highlight the noise of Torin emphatically stomping every air.
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 (most days). These less than ideal snow conditions have lead us all to the same skin tracks over and over. […]