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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.
Episode three of Red Bull’s Davenport project, Faces of Dav, looks into Chris’s family life. Like all skiers with family (Dav has a wife and three boys), Dav has to find the balance between being the best father he can be at home while pushing the limits while staying alive in the mountains at work.
There are few words to describe Bob Burnquist’s “Dreamland” other than the cliché “sickest thing ever in skateboarding”. We aren’t experts by any means, but this 8.5 minute edit showcases that anything is possible if you have the budget to do something like this your backyard. Nothing like this has ever been done before, so […]
Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl made it’s world debut to a sold out and enthusiastic crowd at the Boulder Theater. It was in fact so crowded that I ended up sharing a seat. The excitement was different not simply because it was an all female film, but that it was a film […]
Despite really tough snow conditions, competitors at the Subaru Freeride Series in Telluride threw down. CB represented well. Mary Boddington followed up her CB win with another first place finish. Rob Vandervoort took fourth for the male snowboarders. Mark Mikos took eighth for the male skiers. You can find WSCU Mountain Sports recap below, written […]
We escaped dry Colorado for four incredible days in the Tetons. Trip report coming soon. Enjoy.
photo: www.skicb.com The Crested Butte Extreme’s, known by many names over the years, is the granddaddy of all freeskiing competitions. You hear a lot of whining about how we have too many trees and rocks. But if you can ski Crested Butte, you can ski anywhere. My favorite competitors over recent years have been the […]
Hanuman Enright, who recently created Bless Up Productions, went out for a ride in the recent snow. It isnt much, but its snowboarding in October, which is a welcome sight.
Around 30 uphillers, dogs, former and current CBMR employees all met yesterday, Wednesday morning, after getting their local Camp 4 Coffee in The Lodge at Mountaineer Square to discuss the evolution of uphill travel at Crested Butte Mountain Resort and where it will be heading into 2013 as the US Forrest Service has asked CBMR […]
If this headline doesn’t grind your gears, it should. We reported back in early September that WSCU student-athlete Dave Sugnet had been selected to the US Collegiate Freeskiing Team (USCFST). Now, we received word the USCFST recently contacted Dave to tell him that he was, in fact, not on the team. This goes completely against […]
John Jackson and Red Bull are collaborating on a new series, Book of John J, which features the adventures of the Tahoe based snowboarder. Episode one features John and his brother Eric talking Tahoe, backcountry safety, and ripping a sweet zone called The Dirty Tooth.