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You know it's funny what's happening to us.
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Our lives have become digital.
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Our friends, now, virtual.
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And everything that you could ever want to know is just a click away.
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Experiencing the world through endless second-hand information isn't enough.
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If we want authenticity,
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we have initiate it.
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We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.
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It's this self-discovery
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that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.
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The Art of Flight
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It seems like every place we go
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has its own unique set of variables.
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This place in particular
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is no exception.
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Alaska.
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So far gone.
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It's so hard to grasp the sense of scale here.
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When your whole life is dedicated to travel,
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you have to learn how to adapt to your surroundings.
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It's just kind of hard to adapt when
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you feel like you are on the moon.
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All right, John, Drop in 3... 2... 1.
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Come on.
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Drop.
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Hey, Travis, are you ready?
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Yes, I'm ready.
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Let's go in quick, though.
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Let's do this.
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Yeah, Travis!
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The majority of time spent out here is
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cloudy down days.
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In order to create the great, you know, snow and glacier that we have
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means we get a lot of weather.
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Alaska's weather is hard to read.
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Everybody is trying to nitpick everything all the time,
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checking the weather constantly.
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I just kind of like to wake up in the morning and look out of the window
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'cause that's the ultimate test.
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On May 2,
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Nice cold morning.
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The weather forecast
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is for mostly cloudy with scattered rain and snow showers.
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Here in Alaska, you don't always go with the weather forecast.
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You kind of go with what's going on out of the window.
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We try to create a lot of, you know, activities for down days.
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We have a crew like this, we need to up the level a little bit.
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Son of a motherless goat.
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How are you doing?
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I need a ride.
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Fire.
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That almost took my face off.
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Pull!
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What is that?
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He used to dissect these in middle school.
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Are you ready?
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- There we go.
- Yep.
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This is like "MythBusters," kind of.
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At the bonfire, it's gonna burn.
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It's gonna be like, "Fire burn!"
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"And we are going to burn down Babylon!
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"In Alaska Mountain!"
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We're going deep. We have a plane coming out with fuel. So...
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Firstly, use the plane to get
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everybody out there,
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allowing us to kind of go
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deeper than we ever have before.
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It should be.
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I think it's "all systems go."
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Looks I'm gonna fall out the sky for a while.
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I'm ready.
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One of the things about coming to Alaska
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is there are a lot of terrain that is unridden.
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And there's a lot of first ascents that go down.
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You know, I came here four years ago with Jeremy Jones.
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We had a lot of lines we had pick out.
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He hasn't ridden them yet,
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but we had identified them with names.
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Jeremy Jones named this area "the Wizard of Oz",
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but never rode it.
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The wizard is something I saw
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early on in the Tordrillo, then we put it
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you know, on the top of our hitlist.
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But the problem is that there's a lot of exposure below.
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A ton of open crevasses which,
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to people that don't understand,
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like, those crevasses are black holes.
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If You get taken into a hole with a bunch of moving snow,
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It's not a good thing.
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The chances are pretty good that you're getting buried.
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Ready, Travis?
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Yes, ready as I'll ever be I guess.
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Nice job, Rice.
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- Are you kidding me!
- Johny!
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That's what I wanted. Yeah!
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South.
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It's always a bit surreal, chasing winter down to South America.
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Geographically, Chile is one of the most amazing places on the planet
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with thousands of miles of coastline
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that reaches directly up to some of the tallest mountains in the world.
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And right in the middle, thrives a cultural-rich nation,
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yet one of the most effected by natural disaster.
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In the last a few years, they have experienced one of the largest earthquakes,
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tsunamis and volcanic eruptions in recent history.
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It's just so cool to be here to see firsthand
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a group of people that is so positive after such a dramatic series of events.
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We're in the Andes
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which is the longest mountains range in the world,
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second tallest ranges in the world to the Himalayas.
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It's crazy how much uncharted terrain is down here.
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But it seemed like
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that everywhere we looked
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had been effected by a low-snow year
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and usually high winds.
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But after spending so much time and effort just getting down here,
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we decided to see it through.
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You know, it's not the destination, it's the adventure along the way.
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It seems cliche to say that, but that's really how it is.
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All-time kicker.
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It's pretty epic.
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I'm right now on the border of Argentina and Chile.
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We got Argentina out that way.
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Chile on yonder.
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Some fingery little rocky shoots.
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Super fun.
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Snow's kind of got to shit, so...
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make the best of it.
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We were actually warned prior to coming down here,
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that there was possibility of volcanic eruption in the region we were heading.
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But the group decision was
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that we just disregarded it.
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That could've been a bad choice.
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It was like something I'd never seen before.
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We see ash started to cover the whole road.
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It's all grey and super apocalyptic.
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It's situations like this that you just can't plan for.
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We were told that we had to leave the area immediately.
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We've tried our hardest and it's just not working.
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I'm gonna go home
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and Trav is gonna hitch up with Mark Landvik.
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And they are gonna go down south to Patagonia.
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When we first started talking about going to Patagonia,
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it's like epic.
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Sounds like a great time.
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And then, the more we started looking into it,
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especially when we got down here,
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that's when everything flipped up-side-down.
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It's a place difficult to handle.
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Mainly, here, everything is weather permitting.
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This is like... like a beast,
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like a live beast that doesn't like visitors.
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You know, it became pretty apparent
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immediately when we got down here
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just how exposed to the elements we were gonna be, and
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how we truly were at the mercy of our own decisions.
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You cannot get in and you cannot escape from this place.
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We are here in Puerto Williams,
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in Navarino Island on the Beagle Channel,
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one of the main gates to Antarctica.
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And here it's a very, very remote place.
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It's nothing, just the island.
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It's very cold, mean, bad weather.
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Sometimes you need to wait one or two months
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to have two or three good-weather days.
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When we first got down here,
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we kept hearing about this place called the Darwin Range.
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So we asked our pilot if he takes us there.
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He said, "absolutely not.
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"It's where the devil is."
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Darwin?
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Devil in the Darwin?
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- You should consider a second the other time.
- No, no.
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Does the Devil live?
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Is that where he lives?
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Tell me what you think, tell us.
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He knows this area well and I respect his opinion of that.
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- You are the pilot. Bottom line.
- Okay.
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You are here in charge of our safety
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- and I respect that.
- Yes.
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We all respect that.
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We cannot push that.
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We could walk, we could walk this.
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I mean, I don't know, maybe there's a big river here that we cannot cross.
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- Across the glacier.
- I know you don't know.
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We'd have to look at it. We'd have to look at it, of course.
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Maybe this is a very big river. I don't know, I don't know.
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The only problem is that there's absolutely no backup if some thing happens.
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The first thing,
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we follow through with our plan that the pilot has approved.
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Don't forget I am in fucking charge of what's going on here.
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Then let's go get tons of fuel and go here.
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What planet the fuck are you from?
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After a long discussion, we decided to try.
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It's 6:00 a.m. and we finally have no wind.
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This is some of the gnarliest weather that I've ever dealt with.
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We are going to...
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..one of the sketchiest areas down in the southern tip.
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Really variable weather conditions.
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It can change like that.
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We have 40 minutes of working fuel once we are out to the Darwin Range
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and it's gonna take an hour to get there.
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But he's not gonna shut the helicopter down and It's gonna be a time crunch.
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It's a strange thing, you know,
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the first time we laid eyes on Darwin.
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It was a real just position of
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the surrounding terrain -- mountains
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to this iced-over island.
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You know, there is just this ominous feeling that hangs over the whole place.
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So when they first decided to shoot,
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I was saying: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
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Looks pretty gnarly right there.
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I think these clouds are moving pretty quick.
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All right, guys, we're already running low on fuel here.
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We're gonna have to get this going.
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Are you ready?
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I think we'll be ready in about...
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..maybe 5 minutes.
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Shit, man, there goes the fucking sun.
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Keep quick.
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OK, we're just about out of fuel, here.
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All right, copy.
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Step. Can you make it to my step?
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Right here. hold on.
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And there was quite a deep river,
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where they need to swim,
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this very cold, chilly water,
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to get to the helicopter.
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Oh, good job, guys.
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That was very interesting.
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Oh, man, that was heavy.
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Feel like we just got away with murder.
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Just to ski here, to snowboard here,
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to do one line, to ski one line here in this incredible place,
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that's what we live for.
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Even sometime you are suffering and you say:
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"This is the last time I will do that."
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But after this feeling passes,
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you are wondering what will be the next.
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Home.
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It's good to be home.
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Yeah, it's powerful here.
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I've seen a thousand times, but...
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I still try to see it anew every time I come back.
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Right on the edge of the biggest volcanoes in the world,
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it's lively, it's electric.
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I've dedicated a big part of my life to riding here.
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Now this place is a part of me as much as I am a part of it.
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I don't think I've ever approached a winter like I have this year.
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You've got the time and effort to put in, the right crew,
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this is the best backcountry park in the world.
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In my short 28 years in Jackson,
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I've never seen a winter like this.
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Conditions of all-time.
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These are the days we kill for.
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Why'd he do that?
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Dude, I took a trunk down with me!
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Yeah!
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I took a piece down, I didn't...
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00:37:31,537 --> 00:37:33,523
I thought I just bounced off it, I didn't realize I broke it.
261
00:37:38,054 --> 00:37:38,766
Yes!
262
00:38:40,647 --> 00:38:42,638
I don't even know what's going on right there, man.
263
00:38:43,139 --> 00:38:45,868
I saw him flipping, a tree snapping.
264
00:38:45,869 --> 00:38:47,310
That was chaotic.
265
00:42:45,305 --> 00:42:48,462
Let's go!
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00:42:54,351 --> 00:42:55,081
Help!
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00:42:55,365 --> 00:42:56,229
Help!
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00:42:56,243 --> 00:42:57,919
Oh, guys, help!
269
00:42:59,838 --> 00:43:02,458
Travis, we need you down here.
270
00:43:02,459 --> 00:43:03,541
How does my jaw look?
271
00:43:04,871 --> 00:43:06,789
I hit my head really hard.
272
00:43:07,046 --> 00:43:10,344
Yeah, just relax for a second, bud. We'll get you out of here.
273
00:43:10,449 --> 00:43:12,235
Don't lie to me. How do I look?
274
00:43:12,236 --> 00:43:14,531
I think I broke my jaw. I bit my tongue.
275
00:43:14,566 --> 00:43:16,174
I hit my head, hit hard.
276
00:43:17,020 --> 00:43:20,444
I'm... ringing. I just want to get the fuckout of here, dude.
277
00:43:20,454 --> 00:43:21,525
I wanna go.
278
00:43:23,430 --> 00:43:26,216
Advil, Advil, I need some Advil. Do you have any Advil?
279
00:43:26,217 --> 00:43:28,419
I've got Vicodin in my bag up top.
280
00:43:28,454 --> 00:43:29,620
Can somebody go get it?
281
00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:31,090
Maybe just hold off on that.
282
00:43:31,888 --> 00:43:33,420
Let's just get the fuck out.
283
00:43:33,559 --> 00:43:35,698
Oh, it can be such a love-hate relationship.
284
00:43:35,711 --> 00:43:37,344
I need to throw up.
285
00:43:38,140 --> 00:43:40,482
You know, it's basically you against yourself.
286
00:43:41,635 --> 00:43:45,319
You know, unfortunately, injury is sometimes a part of what we do.
287
00:43:48,142 --> 00:43:51,927
So, this is the 3-D reconstruction of your CAT scao.
288
00:43:52,066 --> 00:43:53,788
You know, you're gonna take beatings.
289
00:43:53,864 --> 00:43:56,674
It's written in our DNA, you know. You go down,
290
00:43:57,775 --> 00:44:00,015
you get up. That simple.
291
00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:55,317
Gnarly.
292
00:44:58,904 --> 00:45:00,929
What the fuck are we doing?
293
00:45:25,702 --> 00:45:27,588
This is a heavy-ass fucking jump, man.
294
00:45:27,942 --> 00:45:28,791
For sure.
295
00:46:00,627 --> 00:46:01,197
North,
296
00:46:02,741 --> 00:46:04,235
every year, as the snow melts,
297
00:46:04,273 --> 00:46:06,691
we start our migration up to British Columbia.
298
00:46:16,818 --> 00:46:19,527
Everything we do is dictated by the weather and snow conditions.
299
00:46:25,426 --> 00:46:28,476
Sometimes you get it good and sometimes you don't.
300
00:46:33,401 --> 00:46:34,819
This year, we have been hearing
301
00:46:34,844 --> 00:46:37,805
that Canada was having some of the worst avalanche conditions in history.
302
00:46:41,021 --> 00:46:42,452
But conditions can change quickly
303
00:46:42,490 --> 00:46:45,122
and we knew the only way we were gonna get any real data was
304
00:46:45,190 --> 00:46:47,629
by going up and setting foot on slope ourselves.
305
00:46:48,598 --> 00:46:53,012
Nelson traffic, C-golf-Yankee-golf-kilo.
306
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,617
Yeah, we're going to Gold Range, guy.
307
00:46:54,629 --> 00:46:57,844
Most of the landings up there are around 9,000 feet.
308
00:46:58,364 --> 00:47:00,110
Our fuel is a little heavy coming out of Nelson,
309
00:47:00,174 --> 00:47:02,668
but by the time we get up there, it should just work out about right.
310
00:47:05,537 --> 00:47:07,807
The fog around here and the clouds and everything
311
00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:09,579
is just very unpredictable.
312
00:47:09,604 --> 00:47:12,415
and just rolling in and out the entire time.
313
00:47:17,972 --> 00:47:18,799
It's really weird.
314
00:47:18,813 --> 00:47:21,975
I've never really seen this type of fog that we encountered.
315
00:47:21,988 --> 00:47:24,288
We're up pretty high on a ridge
316
00:47:24,643 --> 00:47:27,009
and we were just scoping out some lines.
317
00:47:27,010 --> 00:47:30,567
You know, the bad spirit coming in, you know, like those movies, like...
318
00:47:30,745 --> 00:47:33,314
That stuff is coming straight up valley.
319
00:47:34,365 --> 00:47:38,352
We decided to pull off because the fog was coming in and coming in higher.
320
00:47:54,357 --> 00:47:55,830
It wasn't a shut-down location.
321
00:47:55,898 --> 00:47:58,289
I was worried about going over backwards above a huge cliff.
322
00:47:58,316 --> 00:48:01,606
I don't know what that drop off would've been, probably maybe 400 feet.
323
00:48:01,619 --> 00:48:03,262
Sheer rock. There was no snow on it.
324
00:48:04,090 --> 00:48:06,172
I want four guys sitting on the front skids here.
325
00:48:06,342 --> 00:48:08,207
I'm pretty scared shitless sitting down here.
326
00:48:09,116 --> 00:48:11,186
Here we are in this ice fog
327
00:48:11,187 --> 00:48:14,544
laying on the heli, keeping the thing from slipping off the ridge.
328
00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:16,264
Okay, I want you guys to tie this thing down, too,
329
00:48:16,435 --> 00:48:18,562
as soon as he's finished up.
330
00:48:19,741 --> 00:48:21,363
He climbed on top of his helicopter
331
00:48:21,468 --> 00:48:22,842
with a shovel handle.
332
00:48:23,409 --> 00:48:27,565
I've never seen ice like this, man.
333
00:48:27,625 --> 00:48:29,706
Just banging on his blades.
334
00:48:29,882 --> 00:48:32,449
It was a scary moment. We didn't know if Ken was going to make it.
335
00:48:32,450 --> 00:48:34,772
I'm gonna be almost straight up and turning it out.
336
00:48:34,842 --> 00:48:36,367
Everybody untie the machine.
337
00:48:36,380 --> 00:48:37,414
Get this thing rolling.
338
00:48:37,415 --> 00:48:39,712
Once I'm at 100%, let go of the machine.
339
00:48:39,726 --> 00:48:41,760
Roger. I'm doing this solo.
340
00:48:41,294 --> 00:48:42,500
Do you need some spot?
341
00:48:43,185 --> 00:48:45,722
You know what, close the door for me and we'll totally get ready.
342
00:48:47,988 --> 00:48:50,244
And he was supposed to give us a nod or something
343
00:48:50,245 --> 00:48:51,735
if it was good to go?
344
00:48:55,029 --> 00:48:56,799
There was no nod at all.
345
00:49:02,495 --> 00:49:04,495
Ken made it out and so did we.
346
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,359
He picked us up 20 minutes later like nothing happened.
347
00:49:07,875 --> 00:49:09,697
We all have our boards ready to go
348
00:49:09,710 --> 00:49:11,963
and the helicopter just comes in,
349
00:49:16,021 --> 00:49:18,797
blades are spinning a couple of feet away from the slope.
350
00:49:19,148 --> 00:49:21,824
The whole basket, the whole door is just in the air.
351
00:49:22,192 --> 00:49:24,078
And below us are those cliffs.
352
00:49:24,483 --> 00:49:27,851
Just the nose barely touching to the slope.
353
00:49:28,189 --> 00:49:30,297
You get that helicopter go kuh-kuh,
354
00:49:30,648 --> 00:49:32,192
you know, you are dead.
355
00:49:36,033 --> 00:49:38,217
We didn't realize what we were on top of
356
00:49:38,343 --> 00:49:40,167
until we actually lifted off.
357
00:49:41,127 --> 00:49:44,452
It was a bad situation that could get a lot worse.
358
00:49:50,155 --> 00:49:51,116
In the mountains,
359
00:49:51,117 --> 00:49:53,065
learning from your mistakes can be
360
00:49:53,228 --> 00:49:54,636
extremely costly.
361
00:49:56,092 --> 00:49:57,965
You just never know when it's gonna happen.
362
00:49:58,166 --> 00:49:59,965
But the danger is always there.
363
00:50:00,796 --> 00:50:02,558
We are in an environment that has
364
00:50:02,896 --> 00:50:05,085
snow, steep slopes,
365
00:50:06,086 --> 00:50:09,409
and if that's all we had, there'd be no problem.
366
00:50:09,855 --> 00:50:11,558
But as soon as we introduce
367
00:50:11,915 --> 00:50:13,685
man and his toys
368
00:50:13,745 --> 00:50:16,105
into that avalanche triangle,
369
00:50:16,361 --> 00:50:18,193
then we have the avalanche hazard.
370
00:50:27,206 --> 00:50:29,191
That would've been us, dude.
371
00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:37,791
Avalanches were just popping, popping, popping, popping!
372
00:50:37,805 --> 00:50:40,170
Everything that we are touching is avving.
373
00:50:40,994 --> 00:50:43,832
You need to know that it's not just snowboarding.
374
00:50:43,926 --> 00:50:46,245
You learn to ride some fun stuff, some good stuff
375
00:50:46,283 --> 00:50:49,675
and push yourself, but at the same time you're gonna risk the mountain.
376
00:51:36,436 --> 00:51:39,152
It's always this border line
377
00:51:39,249 --> 00:51:42,395
respect relationship that you have to have with the mountain
378
00:51:42,422 --> 00:51:45,706
because the minute you stop respecting the mountains,
379
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:47,895
that's when things just go bad.
380
00:51:55,509 --> 00:51:57,158
Some of these avalanche accidents
381
00:51:57,190 --> 00:51:59,799
are not these magnificent, large slopes
382
00:51:59,826 --> 00:52:01,988
that have these great powder clouds and
383
00:52:02,245 --> 00:52:05,258
overwhelm everybody, but they are very small slopes.
384
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:08,956
Ready for this, Marcus?
385
00:52:10,109 --> 00:52:11,337
We are good to go.
386
00:52:13,677 --> 00:52:14,969
You're excited for your run,
387
00:52:14,970 --> 00:52:17,764
but at the same time, those conditions, it's like, "All right,
388
00:52:17,859 --> 00:52:20,286
"well, have a good one, I hope I see you at the bottom."
389
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:23,021
- Dude, have fun.
- All right, I'm ready.
390
00:52:23,724 --> 00:52:25,680
Go ahead, buds.
391
00:52:34,351 --> 00:52:37,113
Mark's down, Mark's down. Eyes on him, eyes on him.
392
00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:40,021
I got him.
393
00:52:42,616 --> 00:52:44,106
Oh, shit.
394
00:52:45,073 --> 00:52:46,451
Mark, are you good?
395
00:52:58,282 --> 00:53:00,079
I don't know what's going on down there. Scott?
396
00:53:00,106 --> 00:53:01,552
Yeah, this is stupid.
397
00:53:01,863 --> 00:53:03,668
We can't fucking push this shit.
398
00:53:03,693 --> 00:53:05,680
We know everything is fucking popping.
399
00:53:06,606 --> 00:53:08,579
Well, dude, I'm glad you're all right.
400
00:53:09,062 --> 00:53:11,084
Kind of how it goes out there sometimes.
401
00:53:11,193 --> 00:53:13,557
Always trying to be as careful as we can
402
00:53:13,814 --> 00:53:15,314
and, at the same time, push it
403
00:53:15,339 --> 00:53:18,747
which is how you find yourself in these situations sometimes.
404
00:53:20,985 --> 00:53:24,048
We'd pushed our luck quite a bit on the trip as it was.
405
00:53:24,580 --> 00:53:27,307
I think that was the final piece where we decided to call it.
406
00:53:27,739 --> 00:53:29,104
Glad to hear you are okay, buddy.
407
00:53:29,144 --> 00:53:30,979
Yes, glad to see you, too, Ken.
408
00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:32,448
Nasty, eh?
409
00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:34,366
Yeah, it could have been a little worse.
410
00:53:43,125 --> 00:53:46,245
That's what snowboarding is. It's just a constant search
411
00:53:46,272 --> 00:53:49,664
and it's a constant struggle to find the best pow, the best lines.
412
00:53:49,805 --> 00:53:52,453
That's what keeps us coming back year after year.
413
00:53:55,534 --> 00:53:59,021
As it always goes, not completely satisfied with...
414
00:53:59,153 --> 00:54:00,724
the snowboarding we were able to do
415
00:54:00,751 --> 00:54:03,872
but something's got leave you hungry for the next time.
416
00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:04,191
3... 2... 1.
417
00:56:15,330 --> 00:56:16,365
That felt good.
418
00:58:54,472 --> 00:58:58,648
You could say that snowboarding is like church to me,
419
00:58:59,121 --> 00:59:01,972
like church is what it is for other people.
420
00:59:02,270 --> 00:59:03,689
Snowboarding down the mountain
421
00:59:03,945 --> 00:59:04,972
is like flying.
422
00:59:05,965 --> 00:59:07,329
It feels like...
423
00:59:08,113 --> 00:59:10,857
..there is no friction, I actually feel like...
424
00:59:11,870 --> 00:59:13,100
It feels like flying.
425
00:59:39,003 --> 00:59:42,783
Despite riding through one the most aggressive avalanche circles we have ever seen,
426
00:59:43,314 --> 00:59:45,747
we decided to head back north to Canada.
427
00:59:49,969 --> 00:59:51,969
With time, the mountains can heal themselves.
428
00:59:53,698 --> 00:59:55,144
That's what we were hoping for.
429
00:59:59,766 --> 01:00:01,455
I think the reason you never give up
430
01:00:01,474 --> 01:00:02,907
is because you know...
431
01:00:04,529 --> 01:00:06,407
we dedicate enough time, eventually,
432
01:00:06,515 --> 01:00:07,569
you're gonna get it good.
433
01:00:14,833 --> 01:00:16,858
And I guess that's where we find our passion
434
01:00:19,075 --> 01:00:21,913
in this never ending gamble of this so-called sport,
435
01:00:22,577 --> 01:00:24,683
Snowboarding is more than just a sport.
436
01:00:26,088 --> 01:00:28,426
There's the mountain, there's you,
437
01:00:28,657 --> 01:00:30,621
and you pick your own line.
438
01:00:30,987 --> 01:00:32,121
It's your soul
439
01:00:32,148 --> 01:00:34,067
that... that does that and...
440
01:00:34,783 --> 01:00:36,499
that always feels good.
441
01:00:38,189 --> 01:00:39,918
When a human being can be creative,
442
01:00:39,938 --> 01:00:41,248
it's... that's...
443
01:00:42,154 --> 01:00:44,221
..when really anything is possible.
444
01:00:45,586 --> 01:00:46,789
Yeah, Nico!
445
01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:10,135
Yeah!
446
01:02:10,394 --> 01:02:11,634
Wild man.
447
01:02:59,526 --> 01:03:01,482
All right, Nico, ready?.
448
01:03:01,967 --> 01:03:02,550
Ready.
449
01:03:19,449 --> 01:03:20,633
Oh, my god.
450
01:04:28,489 --> 01:04:30,198
All right, Travis. dropping in...
451
01:04:30,223 --> 01:04:32,528
..three, two, one.
452
01:07:11,178 --> 01:07:14,039
- Yeah, good.
- Holy shit!
453
01:08:57,625 --> 01:09:00,056
So what you think you would've done if you didn't become a snowboarder?
454
01:09:01,372 --> 01:09:03,473
Did your career path lined up before you were pro?
455
01:09:04,157 --> 01:09:08,686
Well, I was on this super intense career path to be a...
456
01:09:09,446 --> 01:09:11,284
..a world-class dirtbag.
457
01:09:13,740 --> 01:09:14,942
I hated school.
458
01:09:15,996 --> 01:09:20,360
I mean, I knew like so early on, by, like 12 years old,
459
01:09:20,373 --> 01:09:24,302
for sure, I was like, "I'm living in the snow and I'm gonna be riding everyday."
460
01:09:31,778 --> 01:09:34,436
That's a pretty worthy little spine wall back there.
461
01:09:34,462 --> 01:09:36,044
Yeah, you like that? Cool.
462
01:09:36,361 --> 01:09:39,120
I mean, spines is what we do backflips for.
463
01:09:43,437 --> 01:09:45,678
It just continues to blow me away that
464
01:09:45,884 --> 01:09:48,589
you know, 25 years in, I'm...
465
01:09:49,007 --> 01:09:50,944
amping as ever to go snowboard.
466
01:10:03,420 --> 01:10:05,147
The mountains are serious
467
01:10:05,172 --> 01:10:07,615
and they are serious for anyone getting into the backcountry.
468
01:10:07,750 --> 01:10:10,678
And I have seen that, over the years, you learn.
469
01:10:10,729 --> 01:10:13,387
It's not just going and riding and crazy stuff,
470
01:10:13,413 --> 01:10:14,856
It's not just with film crews,
471
01:10:14,881 --> 01:10:17,894
it's like you are in mountains, you're in the backcountry,
472
01:10:17,907 --> 01:10:19,350
you are putting yourself at risk
473
01:10:19,375 --> 01:10:20,963
and no one is above the law.
474
01:10:24,729 --> 01:10:27,350
Blind rollers, here we go again.
475
01:10:31,644 --> 01:10:34,681
Good jump. Keep your tips up.
476
01:11:09,478 --> 01:11:12,047
Yeah, Jeremy, it's beautiful.
477
01:11:12,731 --> 01:11:17,453
Yeah, Rice, snow's rippable, slash's pretty manageable.
478
01:11:50,201 --> 01:11:51,986
Get out of town!
479
01:11:53,670 --> 01:11:55,745
Dude, you've got be kidding me.
480
01:11:58,505 --> 01:12:01,214
That is the future and the future is now.
481
01:12:01,619 --> 01:12:03,581
Ridiculous.
482
01:12:05,632 --> 01:12:08,758
It was really cool being out there this morning with Travis.
483
01:12:09,050 --> 01:12:10,999
He's better every time I ride with him.
484
01:12:11,024 --> 01:12:12,189
Every time I ride with him,
485
01:12:12,214 --> 01:12:15,822
he's doing stuff that I've never seen anyone else in the world do.
486
01:12:15,878 --> 01:12:18,784
And it's pretty much the best snowboarding I've ever seen.
487
01:12:18,908 --> 01:12:19,974
And that's...
488
01:12:21,980 --> 01:12:23,289
..every day with Travis Rice.
489
01:13:06,495 --> 01:13:07,406
Nice.
490
01:13:09,469 --> 01:13:11,993
All right, Let's slip. bump up, warm-up run.
491
01:13:14,374 --> 01:13:15,506
Hit it.
492
01:14:10,484 --> 01:14:11,641
When it comes down to it,
493
01:14:12,193 --> 01:14:13,434
it's pretty simple.
494
01:14:14,522 --> 01:14:16,497
Adventure is what you make it.
495
01:14:18,524 --> 01:14:19,854
And whether it's the travel,
496
01:14:20,877 --> 01:14:21,890
the discovery,
497
01:14:22,763 --> 01:14:24,257
or just the feeling of letting go,
498
01:14:26,310 --> 01:14:27,865
the only way we will ever find out
499
01:14:29,687 --> 01:14:31,093
is to get out there and do it.
500
01:14:35,181 --> 01:14:36,232
Enjoy the ride.
500
01:14:37,305 --> 01:14:43,310
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