 Is this true? Yeah, and I found two little baby boas. Epic. And you just thought, I'll bring these for dinner or? They really blew my mind. Career highlights and more with your favorite winter athletes. This is on the line. Mr Travis Rice, how are you doing, sir? I'm well. I'm well out in Jackson. Some wild weather we've been having, but it's been a great day for extended homestays. Have you been keeping busy in these interesting times? Maybe this goes for a lot of people. I feel like I've been busier than I've ever been. You know, we've been salvaging a bunch of projects. And here in Jackson, we've been building a shred venue, unlike the world has ever seen. And that is definitely a built-by-hand venue. So it's taken quite a lot of manpower. Gonna build a bridge ramp out. I was checking out the landing. It looks like you could go like 100 feet on this thing. A scary way to heaven. So I'm calling this one. Deep takeoff. I am humbled, honored, and really excited to announce the natural selection is back. It will officially become a three-stop tour. This is gonna be good. I don't think there's any shortage of action anywhere on this course. Come on over, Jackson Hall, February 3rd, man. Natural selection is going off. You know, you had to cut the season short. So been fun to be home for that long? Yeah, it's been really nice. I mean, you turn on the media, right? And it's like, everything's just falling and crumbling around us. But, you know, I think the real story probably more overwhelming positivity and silver linings that's come out of a lot of this is it's been like a global slowdown, global check, at least staying in one place. I see you've been out doing some Klettersteig or some Via Ferrata. I mean, don't get me wrong. There's a lot to do here in Jackson. Been on the lake a lot this summer. Been on the mountains, on the bike, and I do a lot of gear design with the sponsors I work with and snowboards and tinkering with had improved bindings and kind of make boots more comfortable, widen those toe box. So frankly, it's been great for putting projects that are gonna come out in the next two years. Do you ever just sit down and chill or are you constantly busy? Every morning, there's time in there for chill. One specific moment in your career that you would highlight, just one, unfortunately. What would that be for you, Travis? Interesting. I would probably have to route it back to, for me, what kind of help started. I was down at Snowboarders Super Park in Mammoth Lakes, probably when I was like 19 years old. You know, I'd been riding actually graduated high school semester early, so I had spring to ride before I was headed to a university that didn't fall in. I didn't have an invite, but a couple friends of mine, Brian Agucci from a Rich Goodwin, convinced me to like, hey, we got this. Like, we'll just barge it. It's gonna be a bunch of people there, we'll just barge it. So I hopped in the car, went down to Mammoth Lakes and ended up doing the Super Park as kind of a rookie. Ended up having a great week riding with so many people I looked up to and got a VIP of Super Park award and, you know, in a weird way that kind of, a lot of dominoes fell after that because of it. I mean, there was, of course, like contests and films and moments in the back country, but you know, I think that was a foundational moment for me. Was that the Super Park the year of the 117 foot back rodeo? Yeah. So essentially, you gate crashed your way into Super Park and won the MVP of the week. Yeah, which then, you know, Justin Hosnick with absent films was there and this buddy of mine from here convinced him to allow him to burn some 16 mil film on me, which 16 mil film ain't cheap. And he's like, okay, okay, during the week. So we had actually shot a few things and, you know, after that was over, he offered me the ability to, he's like, hey, look, I'll be willing to, you know, flip the bill for Rich's time in film if you guys want to try to go, you know, Hail Marriott up in Alaska. I mean, we're talking, this was the month of May into June. Was that your first time to Alaska? Oh yeah. And so we went straight up, had these two old beater rental sleds, like out snowmobiling out in the back country of Alaska. You know, didn't really know where or what we were doing. And then ended up putting together an opening film part the next year. And that was Transcendence, right? Which helped me convince my parents, like, hey, take a gap year. Take one year. Then mother, I swear to you, I am going back to university the next year. So I'm going to test your general knowledge about snowboarding. Should you answer enough questions correctly? You can end the interview however you want. If, however, you fall under league, we're going to ask you to finish this interview with a dare. Who landed the first ever backside triple cork 1440? It's probably not right, but I'm going to go with Mark. Yeah, Mark is correct. First one on film. Very good. What is a hack and flip? Technically, in the half pipe, is where it's derived from. And I believe that it's really just a front side 540 rodeo, although because it's a half pipe, it's more like a seven. Oh, that one's wrong. Oh, wait, no, it's switch. Oh, oh, start again. It's a cab. It's a cab trick. Who stomped the first ever backside 10 double rodeo in competition? It was, it was either Torstein or Arrow. No, it wouldn't have been him. I don't think it was me. I don't know. I'm going to have to go with, damn it, Torstein. It was in fact you, according to Wikipedia, Travis. In 1996, a snowboarder landed the cover of every single publication with a backside air. What is the name of this snowboarder? Probably Ingmar who had the most famous backside air heard around the world. Yeah, that's it. Which rider invented the backside rodeo? So I'm going to go against where you're taking this and I'm going to go with Brody Dowell. Peter Lyne got a lot of credit for like he was doing backside rodeos really well, very stylishly early on. I don't know, what do you got? Who's the name? According to the folklore that I've understood is that Peter Lyne was the one who made it famous, but Chris Engelsman was the one who actually did it first. Yeah, okay. That sounds right. To add to that, I think it was Brody Dowell. You've absolutely smashed that out of the park and I'd say you probably have avoided the dare at the end, unless you want to do it, you know? We'll see what happens. We're going to get a little bit weird now. We're going to go into a little section called would you rather give up internet connection for one year or not shower for one year? I probably wouldn't shower. The body is actually pretty well at self-shedding. I hope you like dreads. 30 butterflies magically appear every time you sneeze or every time you cough an angry monkey appears and causes havoc. Probably the cough majority of my season is out in really savage cold conditions so it would be momentarily pretty but those things would just freeze in mid-air and it'd actually kind of be sad. I just killed 30 butterflies. Only ride sunny slush on a snowboard for the rest of your life or you can ride the deepest powder on the planet but only on skis. But I could have like deep power all the time? Deep power all the time but you could only ski. Frankly I'd probably go with the skis because dude in the winter like that's when it's magic. Ride a mediocre season so not terrible not great but no Alaska on the cards or you get two perfect weeks in Alaska. Two perfect weeks because I mean two perfect weeks in Alaska is you know once every five to seven years anyway. So you either have to top gun high fives every single person you meet for the rest of your life forever or you have to wedgie anyone you see in a green shirt. I mean I'll go top gun all day. Top gun all day. When you come around for the bottom one and they don't have a handout you know there's some like hand to cheek. Yeah. You know I could see that being problematic. We're gonna move into a section which is called truths. What does absinthe really mean? I actually don't really know the obvious answer to this but I'm gonna go on a whim and say something that is truthful something with integrity. What is your favorite accent? Whoever I'm hanging out with I can't help but adopt it. I heard a story about you went down to Costa Rica. Apparently you were staying in a cabin up on the hill and managed to make it down to another cabin in a torrential downpour and you came carrying two boa constrictors. Is this true? Yeah. Oh and I found two little baby boas. Epic. And you just thought I'll bring these for dinner or? No no. Not to eat but you brought them down to say hey guys look what I found. For appreciation yeah man I mean that's one of the finest art pieces Mother Nature has. The boa constrictor that thing's incredible. You want to do a dare? But let's let's do a dare. Oh I think that's your color mate. I know right? An artist's impression of a nice back country jump with a couple of trees around. Okay. This might get a little a little tough here. Okay we good we got that one done. Okay. Interesting interesting formation there definitely. Thank you very much for joining us. You seem like a very busy man so we're going to let you de-blindfold and get about your day. Thank you very much.