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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.
Cold Smoke’s ‘Voodoo,’ built by Romp, hits the streets just in time for winter. Words by Will Shoemaker With the right tools, the job at hand can be a breeze. And when that job is slaying powder, crushing crud and carving effortless turns, what better tool than one crafted by a time-tested company? Cold Smoke Splitboards, […]
photo: Devon Balet | 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 11 of 30. The countdown continues with West Elk Project writer Ed […]
Mikey Curran and Max Lindsey The Sour Steezle crew knows how to throw down, even when conditions are not at their best, as they were this year. For them, it’s all about having fun. Thanks for keeping the stoke alive gentlemen. photo: Sour Steezle Productions
Gunnison – Crested Butte just put out a promotion featuring one of our favorite snowboarders, the local bad-ass bartender and Freeride World Tour athlete, Mary Boddington. Join Mary as she transitions from fall to winter and rightfully compares horseback riding to big mountain snowboarding in this place affectionately known as Never-Never Land. This 3-minute edit […]
Last summer, Ray Harter spent some time exploring the PNW with bikes in his truck and fun on his mind. This trail is on Raven’s Ridge in the Tillamook forest. Ray currently lives in Denver after living in the Crested Butte area for a few years, we can’t wait to see what comes next. This […]
The 2nd annual Alpine Odyssey 100K, a 64-mile cross country race, brought the return of Lance Armstrong and 274 challengers. Cameron Chambers won the event with a time of 3:58:58, setting a new race record, while Amy Beisel took top honors for the women a 4:52:46. The two-lap course climbed a total of 8,500 feet […]
Axel Peterson went up to the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho with Dylan Crossman and Karl Fostvedt. They stayed at the Fishhook Hut and skied the Sickle Couloir, one of the 50 Classic Ski Descents in North America. This couloir is about as wide as the skis at the top and opens up to beautiful pow […]
Crested Butte’s own David Chodounsky just earned his career-best finish at Val D’Isere, taking 4th in the Slalom on December 13, 2015. It has been a good hill for Chodounsky who has had a strong result there in 2013 to earn a spot on the Olympic team for Sochi. It’s no surprise Chodounsky credited his […]
This video comes to us from Alberta National Parks, and it’s hilarious. For bears, certain trees make better scratching poles than others. It gets comical at the one minute mark. First one bear, then four. This video also includes elk and some mountain lions. Nature rules.
As you probably know, John Spriggs is really good at skiing. But he’s also a talented fly fisherman. Check out the teaser for a short project on skiing big mountain lines and fly fishing in the post winter mountains of Montana, featuring Spriggs and Roy Taylor.