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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.
The winter might be slow kicking into gear, but you can work on your patience checking out this edit from Eric Swanson and friends. We shared the teaser as the snow faded in the spring, now check out more lines from Crested Butte and Telluride from the drone. These guys got after it on their […]
Check out this edit of Torin Yater-Wallace by the folks at Stept. We love how they highlight the noise of Torin emphatically stomping every air.
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 […]
For 35 years, several companies have unsuccessfully tried to mine one of the world’s richest deposits of molybdenum. It is located on Mt. Emmons, locally known as The Red Lady, just above and upstream from the town of Crested Butte. The latest mining company at the site, US Energy, is considering walking away from the […]
Grand Junction based-athlete and Crested Butte Adaptive Sports Center participant, Chris Jefferson, successfully crossed the Slush Huck Pond Skim on a monoski last Saturday in front of an ecstatic crowd. The biggest cheers of the afternoon came for Jefferson, a paratrooper veteran. Left is a composite photograph and below is his POV of the skim. Hell yeah from the […]
All your mid-summer ski porn needs fulfilled in one rad location: The West Elk Project… “BECAUSE” Trailer by Two Plank Productions – twoplank.com from Two Plank on Vimeo.
A lot of people have been taking advantage of great late season conditions to go skiing. Although he did skin up, Derek Johnson prefers to get down another way. According to Johnson, “Once your feet have left the ground, standing on solid earth no longer feels right.” Check out his recent speedflying edit from Snodgrass.
If you have been paying attention to the freeskiing scene the last few years, you know that the Colorado-based Stept Productions crew has been putting out the sickest urban segments since people decided sliding handrails and jumping retaining walls was a good idea. If you haven’t, well, you can watch this trailer and try to […]
Fantastic footage from the Big Mountain Enduro in Crested Butte. Congrats to all the riders, especially the local crew who threw down on our home trails. Race footage from BME Finals 2017 in Crested Butte, CO from Big Mountain Enduro on Vimeo.
A skier in what looks like a party of three triggered a slide and was partially buried in the East Vail Chutes. The episode was recorded on a pov camera. A lot of bad decisions are made in this video. However, the way he stomps a pillow line to get to his buried friend is […]