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Countdown to Opening Day: Colin and Seaton MacMillan

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 3 of 30. Colin and S...
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MSP’s DOMY Full Resort Segment Featuring CBMR

MSP’s resort segment in “Days of My Youth” is probably the most fun segment of the year.  While everyone can inspire to skiing huge lines and the deepest pow, just getting laps in at the resort can sometimes ...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Action Sports Facility to be Constructed in Crested Butte

Plans are in the works for the construction of an action sports facility in Crested Butte South. We caught up with Doug Hudson, the man spearheading the project to hear more. West Elk Project: What’s the plan for the facility...
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Dave Wiens Named Mountain Sports Club Director at Western

Early this week, soon-to-be officially named Western State Colorado University made Gunnison valley super-athlete Dave Wiens the new director of the Western Mountain Sports Team, a separate club director for Skiing and Mountai...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Red Lady Update – US Energy Seeking Landswap

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 C...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Tanner Perkins Wins U16 Rocky Central Downhill Championships

Tanner Perkins is a bad man.  Well, a bad 16 year-old, but you’ll understand.  He is probably one of the best raw talents in Crested Butte and has been leading the race program on the Crested Butte Mountain Sports team ...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Jonclay Patterson’s Season Edit Is a Local Must-Watch

If you ever doubted that the youth is the future, I present to you Jonclay Patterson’s 2016-’17 season edit. This dude is going to be junior at CBCS this year on the CBMST Freeride crew. He’s coming off a mass...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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Testing out my new Drift HD Ghost on Lupine

Thanks to the crew at Drift Innovation I just received a brand new HD Ghost camera for my Canada assignment this month. I took it out for a quick ride on Lupine as soon as it arrived to test out the settings and the assortment ...
by 3. Trent Bona
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Elk Mountains Grand Traverse: Registration Open

Mark your calendars! The 16th Annual GORE-TEX® Elk Mountains Grand Traverse will be held on Friday March 29, 2013. Registration will open on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 7AM (Mountain Time). Go to elkmountainstraverse.com fo...
by 4. Seth Tucker
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Tom Runcie takes 3rd Place and Sickbird at Snowbird

Crested Butte represented at Snowbird!  Eight Crested Butte athletes were skiing in the finals.  Tom Runcie led the charge taking 3rd place and earning the coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Belt Buckle. Despite poor snow condi...
by 2. Will Dujardin
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