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Ed Dujardin Spring Shred

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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CBMST Takes Tops Spots at Freeride NORAMs – Finals Video

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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Ed Dujardin Tees Up Local Mini Golf Lines

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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Local Freeride Athletes Ride Home Field Advantage to Podium Domination

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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Fall Flow: MTB Edit from Mikey Curran

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.


 
 

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Making Lemonade at CBMR

Posted  December 29, 2017  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Despite the Christmas storm, our snowpack situation is depressingly bad, with little relief on the horizon. Crested Buttians, however, are still going out there to have fun and charge (even if it’s still on bike trails). Here are some highlights.  Carson Hildebrandt getting rowdy on the Smith Hill drop. Flippin’ out over all this new […]

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Gaper Photo Contest

Posted  March 14, 2013  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

It’s spring break.  Ski resorts are full of hilarious/scary gape shows (see Gapers in the Park).  So we’ve teamed up with the Colorado FreeSkier for another photo contest. Simply post a picture of a gaper on the hill to the West Elk Project facebook page to enter.  You can submit via instagram with #westelkgapers.  If […]

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Jonclay Patterson’s Season Edit Is a Local Must-Watch

Posted  August 31, 2017  by  2. Will Dujardin

If you ever doubted that the youth is the future, I present to you Jonclay Patterson’s 2016-’17 season edit. This dude is going to be junior at CBCS this year on the CBMST Freeride crew. He’s coming off a massive season where he finished first in the overall IFSA Junior rankings for 15-18 ski after winning […]

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Ruby Bench Drone Edit with LK’s Airwolfe Photography

Posted  February 29, 2016  by  2. Will Dujardin

Not much is better than sledlapping a cliff in powder with your friends. Craig Geipel and Ivan Hansen got out with LK’s Airwolfe Photography and snagged some drone footage off of the Ruby bench out in Irwin.  It’ll get you excited while we wait for more snow, enjoy! Ruby Bench from LK’s Airwolfe Photography on […]

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Armada: DeepEST Day

Posted  October 18, 2016  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Todd Ligare, Riley Leboe, and Sammy Carlson had themselves a good old fashioned storm skiing party last season in the Monashees.

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Limited High Lift Opening at CBMR Saturday

Posted  January 16, 2015  by  2. Will Dujardin

Do the recent high pressure and over-forecasts have you down?! Well you can turn that frown around and celebrate by getting tons of core-shots and practicing survival skiing with a limited High Lift opening on Saturday!! Ok, but seriously, Headwall will be open through the Half Pipe gully, Teocalli will be open, and Upper Peel and […]

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Conquering the Useless

Posted  August 31, 2015  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Longtime ski movie stud Cody Townsend teamed up with wife Elyse Saugstad, Chris Rubens and Dave Treadway to produce a fall ski feature titled Conquering the Useless.  The trailer gave me goosebumps.  Should be great. TRAILER: CONQUERING THE USELESS from Team Thirteen on Vimeo.

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Brad Coffey POV Edit

Posted  April 18, 2014  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

CBMST grad Brad Coffey had a fun season shredding CB, among other places, this winter.  He put together this pov edit from 2014. season edit from Brad Coffey on Vimeo.

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FWT Andorra Vallnord-Arcalís LIVE Replay

Posted  March 6, 2018  by  2. Will Dujardin

The FWT Andorra stop in Vallnord-Arcalís went off last night while we were sleeping.  Kristofer Turdell (2:02:02) won it for ski men, Arianna Tricomi (1:33:50) won Ski women with a 360, Manuela Mandl (1:12:31) took the Snowboard women, and Sammy Luebke (00:35:07) came back into form winning the Snowboard Men.  You can check out WSCU […]

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Francesca Pavillard-Cain Verbier Crash POV

Posted  April 1, 2015  by  2. Will Dujardin

Francesca Pavillard-Cain went for quite the tumble at the 20th Anniversary of Xtreme Verbier last weekend, the invite-only finals of the Freeride World Tour.  Unfortunately the fall bumped her down to 5th overall for the season after her success in Haines, but that’s still no easy feat among the best women in the world. We […]

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