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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.
Aspen local Colter Hinchliffe with a quick reminder of why spring in the Elk Mountains is special. 2 Mins from 2 Days in Aspen with Vital Films from Colter Hinchliffe on Vimeo.
The Freeride World Tour is in Hakuba, Japan for the first stop of the season. Good luck to all the competitors, especially Western State Colorado University sophomore Grifen Moller!
Preliminary reports are not good regarding an avalanche that took place around 2:00 PM today, January 21st, 2016. A snowmobiler was caught in a large slide in the Lake Irwin area under Mt. Ruby. A local man, known as B-Rad, real name Daniel Sethness, was caught in the slide while snowmobiling under the slope. A […]
The FWQ 4-star event Crystal went down last week with Crested Butte’s own Mark Mikos and Ashley Bembenek winning the Men Ski and Women Ski titles! Rob Vandervoort was there laying it down on his snowboard and was able to take 7th. Our own Ed Dujardin went down hard with a broken femur but is […]
The Santa Ski Crawl was a ton of fun. Big thanks to Iron Orchid Events for organizing the party. We can’t wait for next year’s event, to be held on December 13, 2014. Check out our photo gallery too. Video by Shannon Lynott.
photo: Wikipedia We at the West Elk Project would like to say thank you to anyone who has served our country in the past, present, and future. Whether or not you agree with our foreign policy, you should acknowledge the sacrifice that the members of our armed service have made. The 10th Mountain Division was […]
Usually, Salomon Freeski TV episodes feature deep powder, mouth watering lines, and a helicopter. This time around, Mike Douglas and company went to Greenland with glaciologist Alun Hubbard to take a different approach. Overall, it’s a well done project that shows the magnitude of the global climate crisis and its impact on our world.
Rider: David Bunt Location: West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA Fellow West Elker Dave Bunt took a hike with his big bike yesterday and found a fun way back down the 2,500+ feet he had just slogged up. I caught up with him on the ride out from his adventure and he was all smiles. Instead […]
AltaBird Freeride Dominates Again, Competitors Ski Powder in the last IFSA National Series Event of the Season before Revelstoke Photos: Will Dujardin It doesn’t always happen that you get to ski powder in your comp run, but it seems to happen more often then not at Grand Targhee. The Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team headed […]
This video comes to us from Alberta National Parks, and it’s hilarious. For bears, certain trees make better scratching poles than others. It gets comical at the one minute mark. First one bear, then four. This video also includes elk and some mountain lions. Nature rules.