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Community Profile: Zach Guy

Photo: Trent Bona | Community, meet Zach Guy. Zach moved from Bozeman, Montana to Crested Butte in November 2011 after finishing his graduate degree in Snow Science with a thesis on spatial variability within snow packs. His sn...
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Big Air On Elk 2013 Photo Gallery and Live Stream

Last weekend was pretty busy.  Unless you were completely clueless, you probably noticed the big jump on Elk Avenue with skiers and snowboarders getting towed into it Saturday evening.  As usual, Big Air on Elk brought out th...
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Blunck Big Bag Invitational Photo Gallery

A lot of fun was had yesterday afternoon at the Aaron Blunck Big Bag Invitational at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. As we’ve reported, CBMR has purchased an air bag for training and for tubing.  Yesterday was the first t...
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Mary Boddington Never-Never Land

Gunnison – Crested Butte just put out a promotion featuring one of our favorite snowboarders, the local bad-ass bartender and Freeride World Tour athlete, Mary Boddington. Join Mary as she transitions from fall to winter ...
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Trail Review: Strand to Deer Creek

This past Sunday I decided to ride the following trails and to provide an update to our readers on their conditions. My route: Tony’s trail – Upper Loop – Whetstone Vista – Canal Trail – Strand Bon...
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A late summer freeride mission ends up a bit “disjointed”…

Words and edit by: Gareth Van Dyk | This particular edit was made during a long midsummer day….a solo five hour hike with my DH bike got me up into this beautiful terrain looking down into the town of CB. The descent is a...
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Red Lady Bowl on Mt. Emmons. Photo: Thompson Creek Metals

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...
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Deep CB Backcountry Edit from Splains Gulch

If you send us an awesome edit we’re probably going to share it.  Miles Peterson sent us this one during the recent EPIC storm that has buried CB with a third of our winter storm totals so far (that’s 203″ at...
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PHOTOS
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Dual Sport Spring Days

This time of year it is never out of the question to play in both the dirt and snow all in the same day. Yesterday I got to do just that with a handful of CB athletes. I started the morning shooting and riding with Ryan Harter ...
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Ski-Nanigans Vol. 1 Features CBMR Shredding

Scot Chrisman put together a great edit with CJ Conway featuring some awesome shredding at our very own Crested Butte Mountain Resort.  Some locals of the likes of Will Dujardin, Tyler Patterson, and some CBMST freeride athl...
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