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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 props to Whistler Blackcomb for their upcoming series, The Big Picture, which “takes a big picture look at the future of skiing & snowboarding in a four-part documentary series exploring climate change, backcountry access, the state of the industry, and the risks of losing kids to technology.”
Crested Butte, along with local athletes Aaron Blunck and Wendy Fisher, is set to featured in Warren Miller Entertainment’s fall feature, Here, There & Everywhere. A lot of locals remember our best terrain staying closed a little longer than it should have after a fantastic storm cycle. Hopefully it paid off.
Last winter, Powder Magazine teamed up with a crew of professional athletes to ski and explore some of our National Parks. The pieces are being released in a five part series, where they ski Yosemite, Yellowstone, Olympic, Glacier, and Grand Teton. To read to full stories, head over to Powder.com. Trailer Yosemite Yellowstone
Grant Howard bringing another banger edit from Alta Ski Area.
Crested Butte got its typical September storm, so Non-Native went skiing (kind of). September from Non-Native on Vimeo.
Elevated Perspective Media went out and grabbed some awesome drone footage above the clouds with recent autumn snow. It is beautiful out there! Baldy Snow from Bona Productions on Vimeo.
WSCU Junior Zach Bare has quickly grown into one of the best snowboarders in the valley in his two years at Western. This year, the Rifle, Colorado native had an outstanding year on the competition circuit, tying for 1st place overall on the Americas Freeride World Qualifier series. Unfortunately, the Freeride World Tour only takes one male […]
Taylor Pratt has had his hand in some of the sauciest action in Little Cottonwood Canyon. After graduating from the IFSA Junior series a couple years ago, this dude has been dialing it in at the natural terrain park known as Alta ski area. Nice work, Taylor! Alone from Wasatch Visuals on Vimeo.
For the third consecutive year, Crested Butte will have a representative on freeskiing’s biggest stage, the Freeride World Tour. Mark Mikos, a Western State Colorado University graduate and CB resident, took 1st place overall in the Freeride World Qualifier series, placing 3rd at Crested Butte, 2nd at Taos, and 1st at Crystal Mountain. Soft-spoken and […]
In the recent Frontier FWQ 4* at New Zealand’s, Remarkables, Kiwi Sam Lee showed why he is headed to the Freeride World Tour. He absolutely slayed his line in what looked to be dust on crust conditions. Here is what it looked like from the bottom.