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Jamie Salter Season Edit ’12-’14

Jamie Salter’s edit from the last two years chronicles his highlights in the Crested Butte backcountry.  This guy is always getting after it and probably loves pow more than you, but that’s obviously debatable. Way...
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Elk Mountain Grand Traverse Project!

The Elk Mountain Grand Traverse enjoyed its 15th year where skimo (ski mountaineering) skills are put to the test between the valleys of Crested Butte and Aspen traveling over Star and Taylor Passes totaling over 40 miles and 8...
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HCCA Presents Backcountry Film Festival this Friday at Center for the Arts

The High Country Citizens’ Alliance is showing the 9th Annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival at the Crested Butte Center for the Arts this Friday, December 13th.   Celebrating the “human-powere...
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Dustin Eldridge 2015 Snowboard Edit

Dustin Eldridge put together a pretty fantastic season edit from this past snowboard season.  The WSCU freerider spent a ton of time in the backcountry, and it shows in his composure.  The edit, which includes an awesome hom...
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Pow Surfing on Mt Baldy

Here is an edit Paul Elkins from Fuse Snowskates made of some CB locals surfing the pow bindingless up at Mt. Baldy a couple weeks ago… Baldy from FUSE Snowskates on Vimeo.
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Jordan Schwartz, new kid on campus.

Meet Jordan Schwartz and the SoCO 14er Project

Jordan Schwartz, a former marine and 29-year-old freshman at WSCU, has set an ambitious goal this winter while starting his first year at Western.  Jordan will ski all the 14ers in the San Juans, the Sangre de Christos, and th...
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Paradise Jib Camp Edit

My brother Trevor and I headed up to Paradise divide last Saturday to kick it with a crew of friends that had set up camp next to a snowfield for the weekend. Here is how it went down…   Athletes: Jimbo Webb , Alex ...
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The Christmas POW Gallery

Merry Christmas to all! With 7-day totals around 3 feet, the Crested Butte backcountry has been nothing short of ridiculously good over the holidays. Check out this gallery from the Anthracites featuring Matt Evans, Brett Conov...
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Turkey Ski with Sour Steezle

Sour Steezle’s Mikey Curran put together a little edit from some backcountry skiing over Thanksgiving weekend.
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WSCU Athletes Shred CB Backcountry in Edit

While we are stuck in the season confusion of April and May, if you aren’t out there still getting it you can reminisce on some of the great snow we had this year.  WSCU students Grifen Moller, Tucker Vollbrecht, Zach Ba...
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