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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.
Clear weather and an awesome crew make for perfect trip. If you haven’t heard of Lexi DuPont, it’s about time. Lexi, a former Crested Butte resident now living in the front range to attend CU Boulder, has been making enormous strides in the skiing world, filming for Levitation Project and landing segments in Warren Miller […]
Winter Biking With the current sad status of the snow pack I know of a few people traveling to the desert for their bike rides in search of the early spring. Recent trips to Moab by athlete Ray “Danger” Harter and athlete Stew “Monster” Gross to Fruita have proved spring riding has potentially made a […]
Chris Miller’s last big mountain DH edit has us pretty stoked, so this one has us even more so, or shall we say “stokeder?” Way to shred some creative big mountain lines, Chris!
Crested Butte snowboarder Rob Vandervoort joined a crew of Buttians headed for the Subaru Freeride Series at Big Sky. Here is his edit. Unfortunately, Robbie blew his knee after the contest. We look forward to seeing him healthy next year.
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.”
“Barring any late season surges, we can now say that arctic sea ice reached it’s peak extent for this year’s freeze cycle on February 25th. It’s the smallest maximum coverage since we began tracking the ice pack with satellites in 1979.” – NASA Goddard.
Want to watch a sweet 3 minute edit mountain biking at CBMR and around Crested Butte? Gareth Van Dyk put together this quick edit with Mikey Curran and some local riders Luke Shaffner, Phil Gaston, Josh Hawkins, and Graham the dog. Here’s some more casual evidence we live in one of the coolest places around. […]
A crew of Western State Mountain Sports athletes made their way to Revelstoke for the first event of the FWQ season and found conditions to be way better than anything we’ve seen at home. Check out this video from junior Rhianna Borderick.
Jake Teuton is a 16 year-old from Revelstoke, BC. Maybe you have heard of the magical wonderland known as Revelstoke? Jake grew up there competing in junior events for the last few years and is really developing in to a great all-around skier. Add him to the list of juniors that will change the game […]
Episode three of Red Bull’s Davenport project, Faces of Dav, looks into Chris’s family life. Like all skiers with family (Dav has a wife and three boys), Dav has to find the balance between being the best father he can be at home while pushing the limits while staying alive in the mountains at work.