Will gets deep on Purple Ridge. Photo: Peter Smith

Pre-Thanksgiving Backcountry Storm Gallery

The resort opens this week, but the November snow has had locals getting after it all month.  We visited the Anthracites and went back to Purple Ridge for another installment in our impromptu early-season gallery series.  Bry...
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Ed Dujardin’s Comeback Edit

As most people in the community know, the West Elk Project’s own Ed Dujardin broke his femur in a scary crash competing at the Freeride World Qualifier 4-star event at Crystal Mountain, Washington in March, 2016. It was a...
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Gpsy Feelin: Moon Shine [movie]

Check out this twenty minute movie from Gpsy Feeling.  Featuring talented Euros (Parker White has a section), it is a good mix of lines, booters, and some urban that will do nothing but increase your ski stoke. Leo Taillefer o...
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Countdown to Opening Day: CB Mountain Guides in the BC

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 6 of 30. Crested But...
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Dave Sugnet “Uninvited” from US Collegiate Team at 2013 Trentino University Games

If this headline doesn’t grind your gears, it should.  We reported back in early September that WSCU student-athlete Dave Sugnet had been selected to the US Collegiate Freeskiing Team (USCFST). Now, we received word the ...
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Brittany Barefield handled this double with ease in the finals.

CBMST Represents in the Top 10 at Grand Targhee

Last week the CBMST took half the team to Grand Targhee, Wyoming for their last IFSA National before the North American Championships at Snowbird in April. Five freeride athletes and 3 U12s took on the awesome terrain off the S...
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The Road Less Traveled from Nimbus Independent

Nimbus Independent tells another awesome story in this short film about Chris Bentchetler.  With a classic soundtrack and rad cinematography, Bentchetler explains his connection between skiing and his other passions, growing u...
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Countdown to Opening Day: CBMST in 2010-2011

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 9 of 30. Check out C...
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Freestyle.ch Big Air Goes Down in Zurich

The northern hemisphere competition season got under way this weekend in Zurich, Switzerland.  On the ski side, Henrik Harlaut continued his impressive competition run by laying down a smooth nose butter double cork 1080 to ta...
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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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