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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.
Fat biking is catching on fast. Check out Rocky Mountain Bicycles riders Geoff Gulevich, Wade Simmons, Brett Tippie, Andreas Hestler & Fraser Vaage riding their new model, the Blizzard. It’s pretty sick, and may make you want to start fat biking. Fat Free: Fat Bike Freeriding on a Blizzard from Rocky Mountain Bicycles on Vimeo.
Longtime snowboard coach Brett Conover recently opened up the Crested Butte Gear Exchange at 322 Belleview. After moving to the Gunnison valley 10 years ago to go to Western with a brief 3-year stint in Aspen 3 winters ago, Brett recognized a need for snowboard/splitboard boutique shop. However, instead of just focusing there, Brett also […]
Gunnison and Crested Butte were recently featured in the PBS series, This American Land, in collaboration with the Gunnison Public Lands Initiative. The GPLI is doing great work trying to protect the public lands we use and love for future generations. Skip to 15:24 to get to the segment on Gunnison.
There is a new event in town that is sure to bring out the best skiers, pedlers and paddlers! The Crested Butte Pole Pedal Paddle brings the north and south parts of the valley together in a new adventure race. Registration ends this Friday so get out there and race with a team or even […]
Photo: Trent Bona | A big West Elk Project congratulations to all the winners in yesterday’s Gravity Slave Chainless race at Evolution Bike Park. At the end of the day Nicole Digate and Red Mcintosh took home the hand-made trophies for Expert Women and Men respectively. Racers had no chain so pedaling was not an option as […]
Jake Teuton and Dane Tudor are names that are synonymous with BC pillows and huge lines on this website. The Acres episode 1 showcases the boys and their buddies Jordy Kinder, Vinzenz Keller, Tyler MacRae, and Oliver Chornous in this radical edit from their sled skiing happy times in Revelstoke, British Columbia. That’s Canada and this terrain […]
Stellar Media, with a crew consisting of Colter Hinchliffe, Lynsey Dyer, Sam Cohen, Leo Ahrens, Jacqui Edgerly, Wyatt Caldwell, Yancy Caldwell, Jamey Parks and Hayden Price, put together an impressive first episode of their new webisode series, Migrations. In episode one, the crew sends it to Alaska. Description by Stellar Media: Haines, Alaska represents the idyllic […]
Here is installment number 1 of the new “Let’s Go Places” Campaign for Turner Automotive Group and Heights Performance. To learn more about Turner and their great line up of Toyota trucks visit them on Facebook!
Team Valoche just released this edit of some of the most entertaining nordic skiing we have ever seen. Your should check it out for yourself.
Last weekend, Matt Evans and the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team went to Snowbird to compete in the Junior Freeskiing Nationals. Day one of the 15-18 boys was postponed because it snowed 15 inches overnight! Matt made an edit of that pow day and his competition runs that won him 10th place and the Free […]