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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.
Howitzers, samurai swords, and sick birds! The Subaru Freeride Series dropped into the 2015 freeride season hot, returning to Snowbird. This season the SFS is reverting back to a three day format with qualifiers followed by semi-finals and finals. The overall ski winners receive a Howitzer bombshell and snowboard winners receive a Katana Samurai Sword. […]
It’s spring break. Ski resorts are full of hilarious/scary gape shows (see Gapers in the Park). So we’ve teamed up with the Colorado FreeSkier for another photo contest. Simply post a picture of a gaper on the hill to the West Elk Project facebook page to enter. You can submit via instagram with #westelkgapers. If […]
Rob Vandervoort left CB on a road trip for better snow around New Year’s. So far his truck has broken down like 4 times, but I guess the snow has been somehow worth it. While he is currently somewhere between Baker, Squaw, and Jackson, this little pow POV edit from Snowbird features Rob snowboarding with […]
This is the latest self edit from Aspen local Torin Yater Wallace. It features random footage from the season, as well as footage from his summer season at Mt. Hood. As long as he stays on his feet at the qualifier event, he is basically a lock for the U.S. team headed to Sochi. Despite this, TYW […]
Check out this glacial collapse the size of Manhattan happen on film. Despite the remote location of the event, the repercussions for this and events like this are global. This video is awe inspiring and scary. Trailer for Chasing Ice, the movie.
CBAC forecaster Evan Ross investigates the recent slide on Schuykill than ran 1000 feet and resulted in a partial burial. Stupid dust. According to the CBAC Facebook, there was another large skier triggered avalanche from the persistent layer in the Climax Chutes. Careful out there.
As we finally see our first real storm cycles of the year, the backcountry is proving to be very active here in Crested Butte, and throughout the state. Two skiers were caught and injured in an avalanche on Mt. Schuylkill’s Birthday Bowl. Enormous props to Crested Butte Search and Rescue, who responded to the injured skiers, […]
As you probably know, John Spriggs is really good at skiing. But he’s also a talented fly fisherman. Check out the teaser for a short project on skiing big mountain lines and fly fishing in the post winter mountains of Montana, featuring Spriggs and Roy Taylor.
As you know, the snow finally happened. We received 21 inches of good base building snow. A crew of riders desperate to drop anything got after it on Tuesday. Flat landings and fun times were had. Photos: Alex Stevenson and Pat Sullivan
Aaron Blunck is resuming his quest to represent the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi next February. The seventeen year old Crested Buttian is headed to New Zealand to kick off his 2013/2014 competition season, with the overall goal of attaining a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic Halfpipe Team. photo: Shay […]