Congratulations to the following CMAC racers:
Men: Women:
Paul E. Meyer Stephanie Schott
Blake P. Jarvis Karyn Winquist
Cameron Stone Mckenna McNabb
Joseph Dolack
Gunnar Lindskog
March 4, 2008
Congratulations to Tyler! He won the viewers choice award for the Red Bull Cold Rush Event and the $1000 prize. We are so very proud of our Freeride Athlete! Keep up the good work and best of luck in the upcoming events. Stay tuned for other events...
February 15, 2008
Congratulations Tyler on your 9th place finish in the Red Bull Cold Rush event at Red Mountain. Click here to see Tylers footage.
February 7, 2008
Crystal local and Freeride Team Member Tyler Ceccanti is one of 21 athletes invited to compete at the Red Bull Cold Rush Event. This multi-discipline competition includes a slopestyle session in an open pit mine, summit approach, big mountain descent and an online vote for People’s Choice
Red Bull Cold Rush takes place on February 8 – 9, as 21 of the world’s best freeskiers compete for the title of most versatile and best all-around skier, as judged first by the athletes themselves and then by fans everywhere via a People’s Choice Award on www.rip.tv. Help Tyler make it to the top by watching & voting!
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All videos will then be uploaded to rip.tv where fans will be able to vote for the Red Bull Cold Rush People’s Choice Award starting on Feb. 11th by 11:59 pm PST, with voting closing Feb. 22nd. Voters who participate in the rip.tv People’s Choice Award will also automatically be entered into a draw for a free pair of skis signed by the winner.
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Year after year Ingrid continues to impress us all. Crystal would like to congratulate her on winning the 2008 Best Female Performance, at the Powder Magazine Video Awards in Aspen, for her segment in Matchstick's 7 Sunny Days.
Ingrid Backstrom is a member of the 2008 Crystal Mountain Freeride Team and learned how to slide at Crystal. She now rips slopes across the world with style and grace. You go girl...
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Above: Billy in the "white room" at Crystal November 2006
Photo: J. Rayne
The sunny skies over Crystal Tuesday were overshadowed by the news that athlete Billy Poole was killed jumping a cliff in the Utah backcountry. The extremely talented Poole was filming with Warren Miller for an upcoming movie and suffered fatal injuries upon landing. Billy was among several professional athletes that visited Crystal last November. Billy and his calm demeanor made a presence that will not be forgotten. His passion for the sport was undeniable and lived for a sport that drove him...to do what he loved to do.
Crystal sends warm regards to Billy's family and celebrates his passion for the sport.
1/19/2008 -Let's all send some good energy to Scott Macartney, who's in a medically induced coma in an Innsbruck/Austria hospital after a horrific fall near the finish line of the Hahnenkamm world cup race in Kitzbuehl/Austria.
Get well soon, Scott!! 
1/ 20/2008 -UPDATE: Scott is in the hospital under evaluation and is expected to make a full recovery!!!
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A lot of people have been looking forward to this day since the project broke ground in June of 2007. The day started out a little on the windy side and the opening was delayed an hour, but the clouds parted and winds decreased making for great weather and conditions for opening day. Skiers and snowbaorders were lined up to lay fresh tracks. The area was crawling with people all day. The addition of the new Northway lift makes Crystal feel twice as big, it's pretty sweet! Something I've discovered is that now that there's more people skiing Northway, there's less people skiing in Southback. Either way finding freshies isn't hard to do!
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Before I even had a chance to put my snowboard boots on, I already heard folks talking about the new chairlift at at Crystal. A skier was trying to convince the folks selling lift tickets to open the new chairlift a day early: "Is the Northway Lift open today? Aw, come on, you should open it today and let us test it out!"
The Northway lift is going to open up terrain to a lot of skiers and boarders, but that terrain has always been there. Before, you could only get to it by hiking. I didn't mind hiking, and I was wondering if folks who ski/snowboard at Crystal would be disappointed that what used to be the backcountry will now be available to a whole population of chair lift riders. I knew the lift wasn't open today, but I decided to hike up to the lift to check it out. At the top of the Northway lift, I found Tyson and Erin who are from Seattle, and this is what they had to say about the new lift:
I asked a few other people on the slopes today what they thought about the new lift, and everyone is very excited about it. There are still plenty of places to hike in the backcountry at Crystal, and this new lift provides access to some of the best terrain at Crystal. In former years, if skiers/snowboarders rode in this area, the only way to get back to the resort was to ride the Northway Shuttle, or traverse along a long, long, long, painfully long traverse. Now, we can just take the lift back up. To that, I say, "Awesome." The Northway lift opens tomorrow.
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