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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.
Ben Goertzen is another junior tour graduate who simply makes you realize you aren’t very good at skiing. Check out his season edit from 2015. Ben Goertzen 14/15 from Ben Goertzen on Vimeo.
For the past ten years, Level 1 Productions has run Superunknown, a contest where unsponsored skiers submit their best short edit for a chance to film with Level 1. Past winners include Corey Vanular, Tom Wallisch, and Logan Imlach. This year’s winner was Marcus Graner. Here is his edit. Dont miss the wallride to lincoln […]
The CB Avy Center forecasters have been doing more than an awesome job this year, and this morning you might have read the best forecast yet. We’ve had Jay-Z references and witty comments, but now we have a poem à la “T’was the Night Before Christmas” from Zach Guy: Twas the day of Christmas, and […]
Every Wednesday on Mount Crested Butte the Pinnacle Race Series kicks off at 5:45pm free of charge thanks to the folks at Alpine Orthopedics. The 5 weeks of racing will be combined for an overall winner to be declared on August 8th. Come on out and race against your local riders while enjoying the free […]
The first stop of the Freeride World Tour went off in Andorra today, after the Chamonix comp was cancelled due to conditions. Crested Butte local Mark Mikos took 12th in his first event (Mark’s run occurs at 1:10:45). “On a day filled with 3 venue switches, unknown snow conditions, guides sluffing out line after line, […]
Crested Butte native Randy Evans has been crushing it this year with the Bridger Brigade crew. They are currently in route to Tailgate Alaska, because Randy won an edit contest with this impressive performance. He was, however, able to put a little soul back in skiing before his departure. ps. The sh*t eating grin on […]
Check out these edits from local boy Rob Vandervoort, tearing up the resort in 2011. If the storm cycles keep continuing in our favor, and the snowpack holds (unlikely), we can hope to have these areas open in early January. Part 1 Part 2
For your enjoyment (or something like that), Faction Skis dropped their crash edit from their fall feature, This Is Home.
This March was one of the warmest Marches on record for Crested Butte. At least we weren’t alone. So much for miracle March. In good news, we finally got some precipitation in the form of rain. We need more or we’re in serious trouble this summer.
The earthquakes that devastated Nepal caused an a fatal avalanche on at base camp on Mt. Everest. German climber Jost Kobusch had his camera rolling for the earthquake, which captured the terror when the avalanche debris reached base camp.