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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.
Grant Spear, your local Colorado Freeskier ninja-commando and Gravity Groms coach, put together his season edit from last year. Considering our lack of snow, it still looks like Grant had a lot of fun (is that getting cliché, yet?). There is some action in the Crested Butte steeps, the park, Wolf Creek, Silverton, a late-late […]
The Pinnacle Race Series sponsored by Alpine Orthopaedics is back at CBMR this summer, and guess what? It’s free. Photo: Trent Bona With both cross-country and DH/Freeride races on different courses every week for the next 5 weeks, the 12 and under junior series is also making a come back this summer. Registration for all […]
The March madness marathon wound down for local freeride athletes last weekend after events at Snowbird, Vail, and even Kappl, Austria. It was a whirlwind of a month after a weak snow year in the Rocky Mountains had events cancelled and postponed till March. But even with low snow and subpar conditions on the steeps […]
Freeride World Tour and Kirkwood athlete Josh Daiek has had a great couple of years. Check out this edit for sweet lines, big backflips, and large cliffs.
The Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte is changing lives every day. This 9-minute video recaps some of their highlights they caught on camera this year over the winter and the summer. Make sure YOU help the Adaptive Sports Center any way you can, whether volunteering on snow or at an event, or even just […]
This video was made in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the middle of summer. The Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre is an amazing terrain park where you can ride synthetic material that simulates snow. Not surprisingly it is a university affiliated project. Judging by the video, it works pretty well. Crested Butte, let’s try to get something like this!
Longtime crusher Pep Fujas is having a good week. First, the teaser for a Vice Sports documentary following Pep’s career, Lifted, came out. Today, Pep and longtime sponsor K2 skis reached a three year contract extension, which includes new responsibilities in product development and testing. Here’s the teaser.
Winter has been in full swing with our low snowpack. There is a lot of fun to be had out there. Whether you are hard-charging the resort like Mark Mikos and Rob Dickinson, or dropping the knee on Schuykills like Alex Riedman, or getting PROGRESSIVE in the park with Andrew Arnold and Grady Shoop, if […]
Axel Peterson went up to the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho with Dylan Crossman and Karl Fostvedt. They stayed at the Fishhook Hut and skied the Sickle Couloir, one of the 50 Classic Ski Descents in North America. This couloir is about as wide as the skis at the top and opens up to beautiful pow […]
So here is a long POV that is surprisingly worth watching. Kyle Warner took 1st on this last stage and 2nd overall at last weekend’s Big Mountain Enduro over at Keystone. The race starts a minute into the video and he hauls ass for 8 minutes straight. There is a sweet switchback then rock garden […]