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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.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort has announced that the North Face Lift will open tomorrow! Currently, CBMR is reporting a 44″ base, with 107″ of snow so far this season. With nothing but snow in the forecast, it’s a good time to be skiing Crested Butte. Big thanks to Ski Patrol for all their hard work.
The Fat Bike World Championships returned to CB for four days of shenanigans. The weekend consisted of a Fun Race, a Demo Day, the Worlds Race, and a Downhill day at CBMR.
Sherpas Cinema and the North Face recently dropped the teaser for Mica to Greenland. It looks freaking sweet. Join Lucas Debari, Johnny Collinson, Hilaree Oneil, and Ralph Backstrom as they explore new terrain and peaks in Greenland.
Aaron Fotheringham, aka Wheelz, crushes on his wheelchair. Check out the backflips, huge airs, grinds, and stalls he is able to do.
Derek Johnson and Peter Smith are at it again, and this flight is definitely an eye-opener. Speedflying through some of the massive faces on the back of Gothic and then over the huge exposure facing east, this quick clip will remind you that these guys are suck ficks and speedflying is not a crime.
After getting caught in his first avalanche last year while filming for the Pirate Movie Productions film “Perceptions” in Alaska, pro snowboarder Gigi Rüf reflects on the lessons he learned and why the avalanche happened in this short video. The big takeaway: Don’t rush into the backcountry after heavy snowfall! We are all tempted by […]
Crested Butte Mountain Biking Association did it again this past weekend with the completion of the upper section of the Lupine Trail. CBMBA lead the trail building with the amazing help of 182 commmunity members totaling over 1,000 work hours of digging and buffing over 2 miles of new trail wide enough for the adaptive […]
Trent Bona put together another banger edit with the Meinzer brothers featuring the riding of Shea Jordan and Becky Garner. Part 1 was up on Monarch Pass and this edit from Evolution Bike Park features the trails Avery and Timeline/Time Tables with aerial drone shots and it rules! We know there is this season called winter […]
Check out the final 10 minute short on Tom Runcie’s trip to Chamonix to ski and climb in Chamonix with Glen Plake as a member of the Julbo Eyewear team. You can read Tom’s account here. The idea of the Julbo Glen University Session was to give two up-and- coming ski mountaineers from the US […]
Winter in the West Elk’s ended with a whimper. Not so up in Montana, where the Bridger Brigade took advantage of 20 inches of fresh, laying down lines that make us salivate. After some impressive skiing, they ended the season the way we all do, with one pieces and beer. SKEASTER SUNDAY – 4/8/2012 from […]