Two races into the adventure racing season and it is clear that Team Crested Butte is no longer a team to watch, but the team to watch. The team comprised of adventure athletes from the Gunnison Valley has won both Adventure XStream races so far and is ready to strike at international races in Scotland […]

The verdict is in … C.A.M.P. sponsored athlete Ethan Passant of Crested Butte is the country’s fastest rando racer. He won all five COSMIC races along with several other major races. Bryan Wickenhauser of Crested Butte made a significant showing with four podium finishes as did Mike Kloser finishing second place in both of the […]

Near the end of the Rock & Ice’s newly released Photo Annual (issue 160) is an outstanding piece from Neil Gresham (he’s that dude in the movie Hard Grit scumming a knee and ripping the most heinous whippers ever caught on camera). In the article, Gresham gives some great advice on rounding plateaus for climbers […]

Read Lou Dawson’s Wild Snow report on the Elk Mountain Grand Traverse. He pats the boys on the back for racing what he believes could be a more intense ski-mountaineering route on randonee gear. The team was in first place before getting lost in a white-out blizzard. Perhaps next year, they can beat the nordics […]

The rigorous and historical race from Crested Butte to Aspen begins tonight at 12 a.m. The fastest teams will arrive in Aspen in the morning. The 40 mile course from Crested Butte to Aspens follows roughly the same paths taken by mail delivery men when the two cities were mining towns in the 1880s. C.A.M.P. […]

This blog is dedicated to going fast and light in the backcountry. Of late, it seems the Italians have been far more interested in the fast aspect of the motto. Employees of C.A.M.P. recently made a day trip from Premana where the company headquarters is situated in the pre-Alps of Northern Italy to the headquarters […]

86 racers participated in the Loveland Ski Area COSMIC event this past Saturday, March 3rd. Ethan Passant and Monique Merrill conquered a course with 4,000 feet of ascending and -35 degree wind chill on the Ridge at Loveland on their way to victory in the men’s and women’s field. Racers started on foot and ran […]

From the COSMIC site: The following is an outline of the "fair weather" course; the final course will be a variation on this course. We’ll do our best with weather and snow conditions on Saturday morning to give participants the most challenging and scenic skiing and skinning possible. 1.       Start Base Area. Competitors […]

WTF! I ground to a stop gasping for air after two miles on the four mile loop I’ve done more than a hundred times. Yeah the Denver pollution combined with already dry air at altitude makes for less than ideal cardio conditions, but why on earth was I getting so winded? Frustrated that night, I […]

Team Crested Butte athlete Bryan Wickenhauser says he might expect a podium spot somewhere behind Ethan Passant. That all depends, though, on who shows up from Jackson Hole and how Pete Swenson performs. Based on results from the first two COSMIC races, it seems Crested Butte and Jackson Hole have the corner on this year’s […]