Will Dujardin smashes a pillow in Psycho Rocks. Photo: Eliot Rosenberg

Finally Snow in January – Photo Gallery

Things were looking pretty bleak for a while there.  To the rescue came a magical southern flow with  9″ of wet snow at Crested Butte Mountain Resort Saturday night, followed by another 4″ of lighter, colder snow ...
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Lexi DuPont Snowgasming

Former Crested Butte local Lexi DuPont enjoyed herself with CMH K2 Rotor Lodge.  It was “the deepest day of my life,” which, coming from a girl who lives in Revelstoke and just returned from Japan, is pretty deep.
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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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Community Profile: Michael (Hansee) Hans

By now, regardless of how long you have lived in the Gunnison Valley, there is a very good chance you have heard of Matchstick Productions or MSP. MSP is one of the godfathers of the ski movie industry and they are celebrating ...
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Matt Evans is in there somewhere. Photo: Nick Matisse.

Winter arrived in Crested Butte!

With four feet of snow from the last storm and -20 degree temps this morning, it’s safe to say that winter is finally here.  Video and photo proof below. This storm was perfectly timed with finals week, so Western studen...
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Ridiculous POW in the CB Backcountry 2-7-14

Nick Matisse, Zach Vaughter, and Alex Stevenson happened to find themselves skiing the “deepest day of their life.”  It was in the Anthracites and was Febraury 7th, 2014.  Watch this video, it’s freaking awe...
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Chasing Powder to Alta

It feels weird driving away from Crested Butte in the midst of a three foot storm.  But the Wasatch was set to receive 40 inches on top of a strong base.  So I left the Butte, and after meeting TJ David in Grand Junction, dro...
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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 ...
by 3. Trent Bona
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Sweetgrass: Japan by Van

The village of Shirakawa-go in Japan has no ski area. However, the skiing is apparently phenomenal. Check out this webisode, where Pep Fujas, Eliel Hindert, Carston Oliver, and their guide Makoto Takeishi find silly deep snow i...
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Chile Pow Storm

The West Elk Project boys got their first big snow storm last week at Nevados de Chillan.  Between two to three feet of snow fell and set up pretty fast to create some smooth and stable conditions.  Nevados de Chillan and it&...
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