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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.
Chasing Water is a documentary that follows the Colorado River, from it’s source until it runs dry before it reaches the ocean. It has won a number of awards at various festivals, including “Best Short Mountain Film” 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival (FF). . “Most Inspiring Film” 5 Point FF, Carbondale, CO. “Best Environmental Documentary” Mountain […]
MSP took a different route for their crash segment, and it worked very well. Drop Everything will be playing at Western on November 30th, courtesy of the Mountain Sports Team, for those who havent seen it yet.
Going into Teton Gravity Research’s newest film, Way of Life, I was prepared for a letdown. TGR’s last movie was good, but nothing special, and we had just finished Sherpas Cinema’s Into the Mind. However, a simple message and the highest level of skiing make a great movie that could be my favorite of the […]
Crested Butte Mountain Resort hosted the first regional competition of the 2014 season in the IFSA Central Region this past weekend. Freeride teams from around Colorado and New Mexico travelled to Crested Butte to take on the famed steeps and take advantage of a well-timed storm that brought almost 30″ just before competitors arrived. The […]
All options pointed to go and so we got on our way. This was a fall trip to enjoy the cold and brisk air that can only be achieved over 10,000 feet and winter was closing in, or so we thought. Crossing streams filled with dew while the gators gather grim and grit we pushed […]
Borealis Fat Bike Worlds by Odell Brewing Co. is hitting Crested Butte in just a few days! The action kicks off Wednesday with a kick-off party at the Brick, then Thursday’s race is up in Mt. Crested Butte’s North Village, and a conference and demo day is planned Friday. The actual Fat Bike World Championships […]
This was on Saturday Night Live last night. It’s funny enough, but I got to say the rest of the skit is barely funny enough. Click to 1 minute for the CB reference.
The freeride coach / town councilman / painter / waiter / ski bum, Will Dujardin, is prone to a semi-interesting edit every once in a while. In January of 2018 he went up to Golden, British Columbia with some Crested Butte folk for a hut trip at Golden Alpine Holidays’ Meadow Lodge. Needless to say […]
Join ORE as they screen the acclaimed new film “WATERSHED: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the West”. Executive Produced and Narrated by Robert Redford and Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mark Decena, WATERSHED tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West. As […]
CBMR Base Area 4:00, Wednesday, January 2nd Come on out tomorrow for the Aaron Blunck Big Bag Invitational at Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s new BagJump. Tomorrow’s event marks the first time the 50 x 50 x 11 Bagjump will be used for skiers and snowboarders. Aaron will be joined by Dave Sugnet and members of the […]