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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.
Having already skied all the 14ers in Colorado, Chris Davenport and friends decided to continue the list and ski the forty six tallest 13ers, in what he called the Centennial Peaks Project. At the age of forty two, the Aspen local is still crushing it.
If this is real, it’s nuts. Check out the POV footy of a skier in what looks like Europe falling into a crevasse, and ending up totally fine. Lucky guy.
Preliminary reports are not good regarding an avalanche that took place around 2:00 PM today, January 21st, 2016. A snowmobiler was caught in a large slide in the Lake Irwin area under Mt. Ruby. A local man, known as B-Rad, real name Daniel Sethness, was caught in the slide while snowmobiling under the slope. A […]
ESPN’s X Games Real Ski Backcountry is back. Whether or not this is your definition of backcountry, you have to admit that Sammy Carlson is doing some ridiculous things out there. Switch 9s into pillow lines?!? Sammy has turned pillows into his park, and he is crushing.
We watched Matt Evans tear up the IFSA Juniors this last year. Matt finished 4th in the 15-18 division overall rankings the after the season was all said and done. Here are some shots from his competitions at Grand Targhee, Crystal Mountain, Revelstoke, and Snowbird. Let’s reminisce about the season and pretend we can ski […]
If you’re craving real snow on good terrain, you should probably head north. Resorts from BC to Montana are forecasting big storms, on top of excellent base totals. Fortunately for CBMR passholders, the Powder Alliance offers three free days of skiing at a handful of resorts that are having fantastic starts to winter. In addition, these resorts […]
North Carolina boy turned Crested Butte, Trent Bona has really made some strides shooting photos and getting his name out there. Trent is a good friend of ours and you guys will be seeing a lot of his work here at West Elk Project. Consider this an introduction and an update on this crazy season. […]
The Non-Native crew wants to wish you season’s greetings and happy holidays. They went tree-shopping and pillow-finding with the good snow last week. Hopefully we get some more for Christmas!
A Kiwi crew consisting of Tom Brownlee, Fraser McDougall, Cam McDermid, and friends travelled to British Colombia to check out Kicking Horse, Revelstoke, Whitewater, and Whistler. Check out part one of their webisode series from their trip. Below The Line: Part 1 – The Road Trip from cam McDermid on Vimeo.
Maybe you have tried to take that special someone on a bike ride and it went a little something like this. This video from Dakine is hilarious. Or maybe you have been the victim of a relationship that was a little more stressful on the bike trail than in other places, such as the […]