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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.
Micayla Gatto is a badass mountain biker and painter who makes her home in BC. This segment was filmed up in Retallack. If you missed it, make sure to check out Ferda Girls.
As the winter season winds down, we find ourselves facing the harsh realities of a mountain town again. Crested Butte lost two community members in the tragic avalanche in Sheep Creek off of Loveland Pass last Saturday, April 20th. Ian Lamphere and Ryan Novak were among 5 dead, including Rick Gaukel of Estes Park, Chris Peters […]
This late season snow is getting a little silly (in a very good, helpful way). Skiing has been great, not only on the bigger peaks, but even on Crested Butte Mountain Resort. In this short edit, Mark Mikos and Rob Dickinson get after it on Flat Iron, one of the sweetest runs on the front […]
Postcards from Paradise is a 14 minute proposal for a full length documentary that seeks to examine the employee housing crisis in the resort town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The problem of low income housing is a problem faced by ski communities all over, especially here in Crested Butte. The amount of houses are limited, and […]
A dual premiere of “Further” and “Dream Factory” was put on at the Taylor Auditorium on the Western campus to benefit the WSCU Freeride Team, the CB Avalanche Center, and the SoCO 14er Expedition. If you still haven’t seen Jeremy Jones’ “Further”, you need to make that a top priority. “Dream Factory” is definitely a […]
This is the next WSCU Ad Campaign. Just kidding, Andrew Arnold put together this fun edit down at Western. It’s set to a great song and showcases a bunch of the fun sports and recreational activities you can do in the valley as summer winds down. At 5 minutes, it’s pretty short and guaranteed to […]
For the second time in two weeks, Aaron Blunck finished on the podium of a major competition. Under the lights Friday evening at US Grand Prix at Copper, there was no one better than the 17 year old Crested Butte native. photo: Shay Williams Blunck, who has a history of doing well in less than […]
Check out Under Armour’s newest marketing campaign, promoting beauty through fitness rather than the latest trends. We at the West Elk Project support this and want to see more. They are also having a competition to see which women push themselves the hardest to achieve their goals, the prize being full Under Armour sponsorship. […]
This past weekend came and went in a flash, and if you didn’t notice the scores of junior freeride athletes terrorizing the Hawk’s Nest and Headwall over the weekend then you were missing out. The bar of possibility was once again raised at CBMR as ski clubs from the western US descended on Crested Butte. […]
Locals Kate Orr, Geoff Oros, Chris Segal and Jon Larason were out on Blue Mesa last July shredding inland surf. Just shows there is so much to do in the West Elk’s. Enjoy their quick edit.