Adventurers of the Year 2012
November 16, 2011
A snowboarder takes freestyle trickery to the world's most intimidating descents.
Travis Rice’s father was in the ski patrol at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole
Mountain Resort. And like many dads, he raised his son to follow in his
ski tracks. Fortunately for snowboarding, things didn’t go as planned.
A decade ago and unheard of at the time, Rice arrived at Snowboarder
magazine’s Superpark contest at Mammoth Mountain, launched a now
legendary backside rodeo across a 117-foot gap jump, and left a star.
Since then, Rice has developed into the best all-around snowboarder in
the world: He is equally capable of showing up to win a slope style
event in Aspen as he is in pioneering a first descent in the remote
Darwin Range on the tip of South America. The 29-year-old makes use of
all the tools in a snowboarder’s quiver—big-mountain tenacity,
acrobatics, and snow and mountain sense, often in a single descent. And
2011 was the apex so far in Rice’s career.
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