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View Crested Butte Real EstateWATCH: Jonny Moseley Reminds Us 'SKI BALLET' Is Just As Awesome In 2017
WATCH: Jonny Moseley Reminds Us 'SKI BALLET' Is Just As Awesome In 2017 What is Ski Ballet you might ask? Follow Olympic Gold Medalist Freestyle Skier Jonny Moseley as he takes us down memory lane and shows us the lost athletic art of Ski Ballet. “Before slopestyle...
Sherpa Café – Crested Butte's Most Underrated Restaurant
Sherpa Café - Crested Butte's Most Underrated Restaurant The Sherpa Café is most likely one of Crested Butte, Colorado's most underrated restaurants. Hidden away on a side street, just steps off of historic Elk Avenue, between Third and Maroon, this little restaurant...
New Aspen Partnership Buys Mammoth Resorts, Challenges Vail Resorts’ Dominance In Season Pass Sales
New Aspen Partnership Buys Mammoth Resorts, Challenges Vail Resorts’ Dominance In Season Pass Sales Just two days after the announcement that Aspen Skiing Co.-KSL Capital Partners has acquired Steamboat and Winter Park ski areas, they have announced that the new...
Colorado Reinvented by Influx of Young Workers, New Companies
Colorado Reinvented by Influx of Young Workers, New Companies The Tech industry has finally become cool in Colorado. The warm winter days in Denver have lured a new, younger crowd who are drawn here for Denver's growing tech industry. Colorado ranks second in the...
$1.5 Billion Deal Rocks Colorado Ski Industry as Aspen Skiing Co. Acquires Steamboat and Operator of Winter Park Resort
$1.5 billion deal rocks Colorado ski industry as Aspen Skiing Co. acquires Steamboat and operator of Winter Park resort The Colorado ski scene has been rocked just one day after our own lifts stop spinning for the season here in Crested Butte. The announcement came in...
7 Ideas For Your Last-Minute Spring Break
7 Ideas For Your Last-Minute Spring Break Spring Break is right around the corner. Are you still looking for something to do? Check out these 7 Ideas For Your Last-Minute Spring Break. On the top of the list and located not far from Monarch Mountain is the Waunita...
Sleds and Kegs 2017
Sleds and Kegs 2017 If there's one thing we know here in Crested Butte, Colorado, it's how to have a good time. What better way to spend a weekend then sledding with the entire town while drinking beer and listening to a DJ? Just about everyone, even our furry...
A New Kind of Landscape Photography
A New Kind of Landscape Photography Here's a unique view of our backyard, the Colorado Rocky Mountains as you've never seen them before. In September 2015 a satellite named WorldView-3 was flying along it's usual route from pole to pole, high above the eastern Pacific...
Girls that Shred: Meet Wendy Fisher
Girls that Shred: Meet Wendy Fisher From the world athletic stage of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, to features in the widely popular Matchstick movies, Wendy Fisher has made her home right here in Crested Butte, Colorado. Wendy began ski racing on...
Passing Through: Crested Butte
Passing Through: Crested Butte From the Latitudes travel department, Powder Productions brings us this peek into Crested Butte skiing. The fourth episode of the series, Passing Through: Crested Butte offers insight into the best powder stashes, ski lifts, chairs to...
What Would Skiing Be Without Apres Skiing?
What Would Skiing Be Without Apres Skiing? Three runs, two beers and a little deck skiing... Does this sound like your day? Perhaps... Or maybe it's catching first chair, skiing all day and catching last chair at 3:59 for "one last run". What ever your perfect day of...
How Romp Skis Crafted The Ultimate One-Quiver Backcountry Tool
How Romp Skis Crafted The Ultimate One-Quiver Backcountry Tool More than 200 pairs of skis, 70 pairs of boots and about every pair of backcountry bindings were put through rigorous testing during the 2018 Gear Test Week. (Notice a trend here... Pairs!) One product...
2017 Board Test Week: Variable Conditions Close Out Crested Butte Test
Mike Horn brought Board Week, a splitboard test, to Crested Butte from Vermont just about a decade ago. Mike has remained a fundamental member of the testing team. “Even a lot of the terrain in the ski area, once you get off the beaten path, has a backcountry feel to...
Mountain Biking Year Round In Crested Butte
Mountain Biking Year Round In Crested Butte Crested Butte, Colorado boasts miles and miles of mountain biking trails and sees lots of visitors during it's warm summer months. But why wait until summer when you can go Mountain biking year round in Crested Butte? The...