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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 usual, the Crested Butte backcountry outperformed the resort. Peter Smith and Matt Clark got out to enjoy new snow and better coverage. Edit by Matt Clark. A post shared by Peter Smith (@scrippssmith) on Feb 25, 2018 at 6:23pm PST
Crested Butte Takes the Coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle at Back-to-Back FWT Events In it’s first time at Moonlight Basin, the Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier went off March 23-24. Moonlight Basin pulled out the red carpet for the athletes as the athletes showcased the great terrain Moonlight Basin has to offer in the “Headwaters.” Kyle […]
Captain Jack is the new DH course up at the Evolution Bike Park at CBMR and hosted the Central States Cup on Sunday. The trail looks rad and “is really awesome,” according to Eliot Rosenberg. “It’s a refreshing addition to the Evolution Bike Park,” he added, “with a lot of challenging sections and off-camber and tight […]
Need a little motivation? Watch this trailer for “Imagine: Life Spent on the Edge” by Thierry Donard. It looks at the highest level of a few different “extreme” sports through beautiful imagery. It seems like they are only going to show the film around Europe, so maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll show the film […]
Will Dujardin put together his POV footage from this summer’s Chile trip. It’s a quick 2-minute edit featuring skiing from Nevados de Chillan and a last shot from El Colorado. While most of South America had mediocre conditions, Nevados was able to do quite well. You can check out the brothers’ blog post from August […]
A new piece by Teton Gravity Research spotlights Crested Butte, and features a handful of our favorite enterprising locals like the Weinbergs at Romp Skis, Al Smith at Camp 4, and Karen Hoskin at Montanya Rum. To see the full article, visit Teton Gravity Research’s website. Winter Spring Summer Town Life
This is a quick edit that will get you ready the summer if you aren’t already. It features shots captured and edited by Noah Wetzel in Northwest Colorado near Steamboat Springs (Rabbit Ears Peak, Fish Creek Falls, Flat Tops Wilderness, Devils Causeway, Sleeping Giant, and Hahns Peak), along with Ruple Point in Dinosaur National Monument, Zion […]
Take a look at the slow mo dangerous sympathetic avalanche slides. Ruby Bites Back from Irwin Media House on Vimeo.
The Crested Butte area is about to get its first taste of real winter. Social media will go ballistic. Your most hard-core friends will post pictures of their first faceshots of the season. It’s an exciting time. However, if you do go out, don’t lose your head. Cover: An early season skier triggered slide on […]
KC Deane and Steve Lloyd have been posting some rad edits on freeride bikes in Utah. So they went to Virgin, UT, the home of the Red Bull Rampage, and made another. These lines are fast and fully committed, so KC gets tons of props and now I can’t wait for the next Rampage. Kc […]