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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.
Postcards from Paradise is a 14 minute proposal for a full length documentary that seeks to examine the employee housing crisis in the resort town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The problem of low income housing is a problem faced by ski communities all over, especially here in Crested Butte. The amount of houses are limited, and […]
It’s really sad to hear of yet more avalanche deaths in the ski world. Freeskiing legend JP Auclair and big mountain line pioneer Andreas Fransson both lost their lives in an avalanche in Chile on Monte San Lorenzo yesterday. You can read more about their passing here. Coincidentally and equally as sad, Eddie Bauer Guide Team member Liz […]
The Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team finished their season at the 2014 IFSA North American Championships at Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort in Utah this past weekend. Ten team members out of 12 qualified and 9 attended, saying a lot about our little program considering about half of all IFSA members were invited. It was […]
Fantastic little video on longtime Gothic local billy barr, who has observed and recorded snow totals there for decades. This short film, titled The Snow Guardian by Day’s Edge Productions, won 2nd place at the Connect4Climate film competition. The Snow Guardian from Day’s Edge Productions on Vimeo.
Words by Danica Baker | The name Lindsey Vonn to any woman in the world-wide ski community means strength, determination and badass super woman. She has won four overall World Cup championships as of this year, not to mention a gold medal in the 2010 winter olympics in Vancouver. As far as World Cup victories, […]
You’ve probably seen this local shredder, Turner Petersen, schralping around CBMR. The 15 year-old had a few decent results on the IFSA junior series around Colorado. It will be sweet watching this kid develop. Keep it up, Turner! Turner Petersen Season Edit 2014/2015 from Turner Petersen on Vimeo.
Miles Dasher, JT Holmes, and Sketchy Andy Lewis went to Moab with their parachutes to go explore the giant mud feature titled the Titan. Sketchy Andy really impresses at the end.
Ben Goertzen’s 2016 edit is fire. The up and coming junior tour graduate can send, and he has developed a great sense of self in the mountains. Ben Goertzen 15/16 from Ben Goertzen on Vimeo.
Just when you thought you wouldn’t see a mountain biking post for a while, this Slippery Stone Productions video, “Final Slashes” from the Evolution Bike Park at CBMR popped up in our feed. Join Jay Trautman and Eric Newton as the scrape the last of the famous Crested Butte “hero dirt” before the snow overtook […]
K2 skier Cam Riley puts his body on the line to produce some of the best urban segments out there. The Eighty Six is no different. Enjoy.