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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.
It is with heavy hearts that we report a death at Crested Butte Mountain Resort yesterday. Early reports indicate it was a teenage male from the Western Slope. The incident is currently under investigation. Thanks to Ski Patrol for the professional manner in which it was handled. Below is preliminary information form resort spokesperson Scott […]
WSCU Junior Tucker Vollbrecht with a nice edit from a great season where he travelled to Japan and placed 5th in the FWQ at Crested Butte.
A few years ago, Carter McMillan took fourth place and earned himself the North Face Young Gun Award at the Crested Butte FWT comp. This year, the Canadian hung around British Colombia to ski some incredible snow. Check out his mid-season edit. You’ll see he has balls.
There are some interesting developments concerning the terrain parks at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. First, the Painter Boy and Cascade Park (the big one on Gold Link) is scheduled to open around Christmas, snow permitting. With the recent storm, work on Painter Boy has begun. At the moment, CBMR is still deliberating whether or not […]
The Off-Piste Ski Atlas is a guide to a variety of zones in the Crested Butte, Colorado backcountry. There was a lot of speculation and opinions circulating around its release, so we were excited to get our hands on it. The guide gives an enormous amount of helpful info. It consists of aerial photos and […]
Gareth Van Dyk has been skiing CBMR since a lot of us we youngin’s or maybe not even born yet. GVD is an underground legend in the freeride scene so if you don’t know, you better axe somebody. The 25th Season from gareth van dyk on Vimeo.
Vice Sports presents Part 1 of Lifted, a documentary on one of skiings most influential and iconic skiers, Pep Fujas. With skiing going the way of dayglo snowsuits and spread eagles, it took a farm boy to bring power and style to the sport. In Part 1 of VICE Sports’ three-part series, we see Pep […]
Four members of the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team went to Snowbird, Utah to ski in the IFSA Junior National Series. Matt Evans, Josie Byron, Brittany Barefield, and Patrick Curvin took on a stacked field of 55 men and 22 women in the 15-18 age group on Rasta Chutes and Silver Fox. Josie Byron finished […]
Sweetgrass Productions‘ third film, “Solitaire”, will be showing at Western’s University Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Dec. 5th. The doors are at 6:30. It’s $3 for students and $5 for everyone else.The event is being held to benefit the WSCU Mountain Sports Team. All proceeds will go directly to the Big Mountain, Park & Pipe, Skier […]
Beans and Rice Freeride consists of tele skiers Jake Sakson and Paul Kimbrough. The two boys out of Grand Targhee did an awesome jobs riding and shooting last season in the Tetons. Check out the first episode of their new webisode series. It’s seriously good.