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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.
Join the likes of Sam Smoothy, Fraser McDougall, and Jossi Wells as they stack shots from Treble Cone and the surrounding backcountry.
Three skiers in Whistler, BC triggered a category one slide that caught two of the three. They were all wearing go pros, and the event was captured perfectly.
Welcome to our Countdown to Opening Day series. During the 30 days leading up to opening day at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, we will be featuring a clip or edit from winter in the West Elks. This is video 30 of 30. For the last clip in our 30 for 30 series, we have footage […]
Crested Butte local Neil Beltchenko moved to Crested Butte after attending Western State Colorado University. Like most people, he got on a bike. But unlike most people, Neil discovered that he likes riding his bike for very long distances. Earlier this year, Neil took 5th in the Arizona Trail Race 300. Last weekend, Neil took […]
ROMP Skis Edit of the Month This month’s edit from ROMP is of team athlete and Crested Butte local, Nolan Blunk, during a trip to Austria after a few jibs in the CB park during his 2011 season.
After last week’s snow, the North Face Lift started spinning on Friday. There was a lot of awesome snow and a lot coreshots had throughout the afternoon. TechnicaBlizzard team rider Rob Dickinson brought his Drift HD Ghost POV camera along with him and captured what Crested Butte is all about. Huge thanks to CB Ski […]
Photos: http://millerperspectives.squarespace.com/ Last weekend the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association crew came out in force for their annual overnight weekend work days. Rustlers Gulch campground was the base camp for work on both the 401 trail and the 403 trail. Event sponsors kept the workers happy and motivated while they worked to provide necessary maintenance for […]
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.
This summer, photographer Nicolaus Wegner shot time lapses all over the high plains of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado. The results are pretty stunning. Stormscapes 2 from Nicolaus Wegner on Vimeo.
We are giving away two tickets to this weekend’s Mt. Crested Butte Chili and Beer Festival to the winner of our West Elk Fall Colors photo contest! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and post a throwback of your favorite fall foliage photo there from years past with a #WestElkProject tag in the description (or […]