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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.
Big Air on Elk was another great year! The jump was questionable at the start with athletes speed checking the practice runs, but eventually there were plenty of tricks being thrown down. Check out the video by Crested Butte/Gunnison Tourism association and photos by Trent Bona. http://youtu.be/kANGpFXRZIg
This is the most serious and awe inspiring edit that has ever been posted… Just kidding. However, this edit does epitomize spring break riding accompanied with some classy moves. Nicely done fellas. Spring Breakerz from ANdrew Arnold on Vimeo.
Longtime crusher Pep Fujas is having a good week. First, the teaser for a Vice Sports documentary following Pep’s career, Lifted, came out. Today, Pep and longtime sponsor K2 skis reached a three year contract extension, which includes new responsibilities in product development and testing. Here’s the teaser.
Ben Goertzen’s 2016 edit is fire. The up and coming junior tour graduate can send, and he has developed a great sense of self in the mountains. Ben Goertzen 15/16 from Ben Goertzen on Vimeo.
Ladies from the Smith Optics team came to Crested Butte last winter for what turned out to be a good old time with CS Irwin and Crested Butte Mountain Guides. Tatum Monod, Lexi Dupont, and Rachel Burks joined CB locals Pip Hunt and Wendy Fisher to crush Irwin’s cat area as well as the Green […]
On a beautiful spring day last week Trevor Bona busted his drone out to film two local paragliding pilots, Ben Eaton and Richard Kocurek, at CBMR. This is a special edit because it captures what a blue bird Colorado day at Crested Butte Mountain Resort is all about. It’s also special because we lost Zane […]
We are giving away two tickets to this weekend’s Mt. Crested Butte Chili and Beer Festival to the winner of our West Elk Fall Colors photo contest! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and post a throwback of your favorite fall foliage photo there from years past with a #WestElkProject tag in the description (or […]
Fourteen year old Jackson native Daniel Tisi crushed his breakout segment for Teton Gravity Research’s latest movie, Way of Life. This edit, which consists of TGR footage, was put together by Daniel’s brother Jackson of Two Five Productions.
Check out this park edit from the Sour Steezle boys in the park at CBMR. Good times were had.
Thanks to the crew at Drift Innovation I just received a brand new HD Ghost camera for my Canada assignment this month. I took it out for a quick ride on Lupine as soon as it arrived to test out the settings and the assortment of bike-centric mounts they included for me. This is the […]