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Ed Dujardin Spring Shred

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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CBMST Takes Tops Spots at Freeride NORAMs – Finals Video

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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Ed Dujardin Tees Up Local Mini Golf Lines

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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Local Freeride Athletes Ride Home Field Advantage to Podium Domination

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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Fall Flow: MTB Edit from Mikey Curran

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.


 
 

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July Rail Session

Posted  July 16, 2012  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

This Sunday we headed out to one of the last remaining slivers of snow around to go session a small rail. Although we’re not the most avid park skiers, it was fun to get on a playful rail and learn some new stuff. After we built the jump, thunderstorms rolled and dropped some hail. After […]

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JP Auclair Street Segment, Andreas Fransson “Happy Winter”, Liz Daley

Posted  September 30, 2014  by  2. Will Dujardin

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 […]

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Blunck Wins US Grand Prix at Copper

Posted  December 21, 2013  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

For the second time in two weeks, Aaron Blunck finished on the podium of a major competition.  Under the lights Friday evening at US Grand Prix at Copper, there was no one better than the 17 year old Crested Butte native. photo: Shay Williams Blunck, who has a history of doing well in less than […]

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Bomb Snow: Take You There

Posted  December 27, 2014  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Bomb Snow and their partner Blizzard have provided CB natives Matt and Randy Evans with much to be thankful for over the years.  Check out the brothers, along with partner in crime Kyle Taylor, overcoming obstacles and crushing the mountains (as well as Eldo doors) in this edit, Take You There. “Take You There” w/ Bomb Snow […]

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CB Mountain Guides in the Chugach

Posted  May 1, 2012  by  2. Will Dujardin

Maybe you are getting AK overload. Maybe you should have gone up there like everybody who’s cool did.  Wait, I guess we weren’t cool enough. But Jayson Simons-Jones and CB Mountain Guides are very cool and offered two ski-mountaineering trips up there in April and made the best of it.  They got some heli-time in […]

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Uptown Funk U.S. Ski Team

Posted  February 20, 2015  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

The U.S. Nordic Ski Team is in Falun, Sweden for the 2015 World Championships.  They made sure to have some fun first though.  Which do you like more? This rendition of Uptown Funk, or the Crested Butte Nordic Team’s version of Every Time We Touch?

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Sage Cattabriga-Alosa’s full segment from TGR’s Way of Life

Posted  October 15, 2013  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Teton Gravity Research wants you to buy their new movie, Way of Life.  To make that happen, they just released Sage Cattabriga-Alosa’s full opening segment.  It’s a banger.  Read our review of Way of Life here.

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Beacon Brush Up: Saturday at Town Park

Posted  November 28, 2012  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain Guides and The Alpineer team up to host event Saturday, December 1st, 11:00 am Words from cbavalanchecenter.org The Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain Guides and The Alpineer will host a “Beacon Brush Up” on December 1st in the Crested Butte Town Park. Forecasters from CBAC and guides […]

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Julia Mancuso is Wonder Woman

Posted  October 31, 2014  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Julia Mancuso knows how to have fun.  In between training and traveling, she managed to dig up a Wonder Woman costume and enjoy herself.

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“On a Ride” at Hartman Rocks

Posted  September 2, 2014  by  Edward Dujardin 2.0

Check out this fun little edit featuring Eric Freson brapping around Hartman Rocks.  Edit by Sour Steezle’s Mikey Curran. On a Ride from Mike Curran on Vimeo.

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