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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.
As the winter season winds down, we find ourselves facing the harsh realities of a mountain town again. Crested Butte lost two community members in the tragic avalanche in Sheep Creek off of Loveland Pass last Saturday, April 20th. Ian Lamphere and Ryan Novak were among 5 dead, including Rick Gaukel of Estes Park, Chris Peters […]
Two years in the making, MSP Films’ “Days of My Youth” is finally coming to us in September. This extended trailer is the first full trailer with both seasons of footage from Matchstick’s two year project, including a segment filmed at Crested Butte Mountain Resort during this year’s powderific shredfest last February. Check out the new […]
By Rob Vandervoort Standing 13,487 feet above sea level in the glorious Colorado sunshine, Silverton Mountain beckoned. A few hundred odd powder hungry skiiers and boarders lined up on Saturday, December 20, to answer the call. Among these pilgrims of the powder stood myself. After a somewhat eventful trip from Crested Butte, which included a […]
The WSCU Freeride Team journeyed up to Grand Targhee Resort for the first ever Collegiate Freeride Competion. This recap is provided by Dustin Eldridge of the Top o’the World Newspaper at Western State Colorado University. Above: Conor Michael airing it out for a Mason Strehl photo outside of competition; he finished 7th.. Western Freeriders Max […]
The most creative gang in skiing dropped episode 13 of their webisode series.
Want to experience some high pucker factor? Check out this POV of some big-mountain downhilling in the West Elk Mountains courtesy of the CB Professional Ski Patrol’s very own Casey Coleman. Keep it up, dude!
We asked you for videos of summertime activities to get us pumped. Mikey Curran and friends responded with this video of longboarding on Monarch Pass. The boys dropped in at 6:10 am to avoid traffic. Looks like a good time. Monarch Pass Longboarding from Mike Curran on Vimeo.
Crested Butte represented at Snowbird! Eight Crested Butte athletes were skiing in the finals. Tom Runcie led the charge taking 3rd place and earning the coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle. Despite poor snow conditions around the Rocky Mountains this winter, Snowbird was able to put on a show for the North American Freeskiing Championships on […]
IFSA athletes from around the Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah descended on Crested Butte Mountain Resort for the first of 2 junior events to be held here, this time the Rocky Mountain Regional Series event. With a decent start to the year and the resort skiing great, the Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team and local athletes […]
Colter Hinchliffe followed up his breakout year with another banger season. Check out his season edit, consisting of footage from Teton Gravity Research and Warren Miller Entertainment.