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FWT Courmayer Mont Blanc Teaser

The Freeride World Tour is set to kick off January 18th 9:00am CET, 1:00 MST.  We can’t wait to watch Western State Colorado University Moutain Sports member Francesca Pavillard Cain go toe to toe with the world’s ...
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Derek Taylor flanked by some Canadians, Pat Baskins, and Randy Evans. Copyright Amy Jimmerson

Randy Evans Earns Sickbird and 5th Place at Moonlight Basin

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...
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Francesca Pavillard-Cain on the podium. Trent Bona Photography

Crested Butte Invades Taos For FWT Qualifier

photo: Trent Bona Photography | This past weekend, around twenty Crested Buttians (including the WSCU Mountain Sports Team) invaded Taos Ski Valley to take part in the four star Freeride World Tour Qualifier.  Expectations wer...
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Local FWT Athletes Fundraiser at Butte 66 on Friday, Dec 5th

Hey Gunnison Valley! We have 2 amazing women representing our little part of Colorado on the Freeride World Tour this year.  Frequent visitors to our site are no strangers to Francesca Pavillard-Cain and Mary Boddington̵...
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Francesca Pavillard Cain Takes 3rd at Haines FWT

Crested Butte’s own Francesca Pavillard Cain has earned herself another podium finish this season.  This time, Francesca opened the competition in Haines with a solid run, good enough for third, behind Silvia Moser and E...
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SFS and JFT 2014 Wrap up at Big Sky, CB Women Represent

The Subaru Freeride Series and Junior Freeride Tour held their season finals at Big Sky Resort, Montana this past weekend.  The event also closed out the Freeride World Qualifier season, where the top athletes make it through ...
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FWQ Series Concludes at Kicking Horse: Durtschi Wins Overall Ski Title

The final stop of the Freeride World Qualifier series wrapped up this weekend at Wrangle the Chute up on Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in British Colombia. Western State Colorado University freshman Max Durtschi secured the ove...
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Sam Smoothy Andorra POV

As you probably know, Sam Smoothy’s first place run at the FWT in Andorra was nuts.  Here’s the POV.
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Community Profile: Ashley Bembenek

Ashley Bembenek is poised to make a big splash in the world of women’s freeskiing this coming winter.   The 27 year-old from Eden, Utah has lived in a variety of places before finally landing in Crested Butte in 2010, when ...
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Male Ski Podium. Brandon Clabaugh (2nd), Ian Borgeson (1st), Garrett Altmann (3rd). Trent Bona Photography

Ian Borgeson and Drew Petersen at the Taos FWQ

Here is the edit put together by Ian Borgeson and Drew Peterson from the Taos 4 star FWQ event.  These recent graduates from the junior freeride scene are going to take over, as showcased by Ian taking 1st place.  The corked ...
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