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Community Profile: Colin Pickett

Photo: Trent Bona | It’s time for you to get to know downhiller Colin Pickett.  Colin, a 21 year old Western State student, moved to the valley for school and riding bikes.  With strong race finishes last year, the Alpine O...
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2012 Ski & Snowboard Movie Trailers

All your mid-summer ski porn needs fulfilled in one rad location: The West Elk Project… “BECAUSE” Trailer by Two Plank Productions – twoplank.com from Two Plank on Vimeo.      
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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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Recap: The Meeting 10

This weekend, we walked over the Elks for the 10th year of a great gathering simply known as The Meeting.  For those who don’t know, The Meeting is a showing of all the biggest ski and snowboard movies of the year, displayed...
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West Elk Project goes to Aspen for the Meeting 8

In our never-ending quest to turn everyone into ski bums and mountain athletes, we went to a little place called Aspen to attend the Meeting 8.  We went armed with business cards, notepads, and our camera to battle through ski...
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A beautiful morning hike to a beautiful spot.

Chile – Argentina Part Dos: Skiing and Backcountry Hotsprings in Chillan

The search for better snow brought us south to Nevados de Chillan, Chile.  Bound eventually for Bariloche, we found ourselves making a mid-way stop deep in volcanic mountains.  A warm welcome at the end of a poorly maintaine...
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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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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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New Edit from Evolution Bike Park

Chris Segal, Trent Bona, and a drone camera crew joined forces last week for a photo/video shoot on Woods trail at Evolution Bike Park with a train of local DH riders. Mr. Segal’s edit from the day just released, and it...
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Free stuff!

MSP Premieres “Super Heroes of Stoke” in Crested Butte

Every year the MSP premiere is a rowdy event in Crested Butte.  Not your 4th-of-July touristy rowdy, but get off your ass hootin’ hollerin’ – I will crush this winter – rowdy.   On Wednesday, MSP premiered the...
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