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All around you.

To seek is not to be
content with where one is.

To seek is to fantasize
that there is more.

I am a seeker.

We all learn that water
has three phases.

The solid state, the liquid
state, and also the vapor state.

You can't explain all the
known properties of water

with three phases alone,
you need a fourth phase.

As children we have this
natural tendency to explore.

And then we go to school and we
have to give the right answer.

This has a tendency
to squeeze out of us

the truth-seeking nature
that comes as a human being.

Because of the institutionalized
nature of science,

scientists have become more hesitant
to challenge perceived truth.

If we want to get to real truth, we have
to dig down beneath the foundations.

Yes!

Yes!

That was beautiful, man.

- We stomped?
- Yeah.

Fuck, yeah, dude.

Oh!

There is absolutely an
art to building jumps.

Excavating efficiency,
structure, architectural sanity.

It's kinda like our arts and crafts,
to do the trajectories right,

do the transition...

- It looks sweet, it's just...
- not too much compression.

A little bit of late pop.

Building jumps, man.

That's what we do
and we do it well.

I think we can do
this in three hours.

Working with Travis is kinda like
banging your head against the wall

over and over,

until eventually

your brains spill out.

It's a pleasure building jumps
with you in the backcountry, Pat.

It's a pleasure working for you.

Welcome to Wyoming!

Better act accordingly.

Got to whisper right now
'cause I can't talk too loud.

He's getting excited.

It's crazy to think
it's been 11 years

since Travis brought me out to the
backcountry, that first time.

He's just kinda, like a
older brother to me,

always pushing me a
little bit further.

Just gave me the glimpse
of what was possible.

Business as usual, man,

blowing my minds the first
time we went out on his jump.

Travis and I definitely
share this path.

It's kind of a migration
based on hydrology.

I was just obsessed with
the processes of nature.

I remember, as a kid,
watching people surfing,

the water, how good
it felt to play...

I realized that the
storms that were

providing this great surf would provide
amazing snow in the mountains.

I had this epiphany.

I was dedicating my
life to this process.

It's just like a natural instinct,
there's something primitive,

something that goes a little bit deeper
than just playing or just riding.

The laws of nature are the most
powerful laws in existence.

Water evaporates...

Clouds form...

Life begins.

The snowstorm atop high peaks...

falls heavy...

settles...

melts...

flows through tributaries,

streams...

into rivers...

and finds the sea...

then returns to the air.

This process we follow,

this cycle we ride.

Travis!

♪ Where ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

Yea, Guch.

Excitement and discovery is, like,
the best thing about being out here.

You can't do it all
in a lifetime.

Dude, I think that's an arch.

It looks like it goes.

What do you think on approach?

So coming up the
same way we went

and then just hike up that
ridge down all the way.

Travis, are you ready?

Ready.

♪ Where ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Where ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Where ♪

Bryan Iguchi showed me a lot more
than just how to kick out a method.

You know, he handed down the modus
operandi, a certain way of living.

He is the humble master.

I had a vision of what the potential
of snowboarding could become,

and he realized it.

Travis became the snowboarder
I always wanted to be.

Here we are.

We're about 11,400 feet,
continental divide.

Beautiful spring day.

So basically, the snow
that falls on this side,

melts out, flows down into the Gulf
of Mexico and on into the Atlantic.

Then the snow on this side flows into
the Pacific, and around she goes.

♪ Come on ♪

Ooh, dawg.

♪ Ooh... ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Where ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

♪ Where ♪

♪ Ooh... ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

♪ Where ♪

♪ Do we go from here? ♪

Travis took this idea about
the hydrological cycle

and turned it into
this epic journey.

This hydrological cycle, it's easy
to just write it off as, well,

that's the weather.

We steal a lot of the magic from
things that we give names to.

It's this beautiful,
choreographed cycle of life.

If you were standing on the moon

looking back at Earth, at
one point during the day,

you're looking at a blue planet.

The ocean traps the sun's heat energy
and turns it into a solar engine.

A system of ocean currents
called the North Pacific Gyre

moves in a clockwise direction, driven
by wind and the rotation of the Earth,

distributing this heat
energy around the planet.

This helps fuel the storms
that drive our winters.

I realized, by combining my love of the
ocean with my love of the mountains,

it might be possible to actually follow
the flow around the North Pacific,

travel with the water that melts
down from the Continental Divide,

sail with it as it
sweeps across the ocean,

and turns into the snow
that blankets Japan.

The cycle swings up and tears
past the Kamchatka peninsula,

and then finally banks into the catcher's
mitt that forms the Gulf of Alaska.

These charged weather systems coming off
the ocean hit these coastal mountains,

which ring out precipitation
like a sponge,

creating some of the most incredible
snow formations on the planet.

The most extreme example of this is in
the zone in AK we named, "So Far Gone."

I've never seen a place
like this before.

The way this snow sticks to the mountains
creates these pillowed spine lines

that are totally sci fi.

Since the first time I saw it I
haven't stopped thinking about it.

The whole area has ice up high
that forms these natural kickers.

It's subtle, but this allows you
to do tricks you couldn't pull off

in a normal AK style line.

I look at mountains and
I ride them in my mind.

The possibilities for
progression mother

nature has provided here,
it's unparalleled.

This area is so remote,
we have to camp,

and because it's protected
wilderness, we can't use helis.

We have to hike.

It's a purely
human-powered mission.

Once Travis has an idea in his head,
it's really hard for him to let it go.

I think the only thing Travis
is afraid of is failure.

It's incredible...

letting yourself go and
just moving with the pace,

and...

you know, directional
flow of the ocean.

Just seeing the power
of the currents

traveling westward across the Pacific
and knowing that it's all tied in,

that without this
that doesn't happen.

I think it brings a lot
more appreciation,

even when we're far and away
in those winter months,

just knowing kind of where it came
from and where it'll go back to.

I love sailing just like
I love snowboarding.

I find there's such
similarities there.

The fact that you're
out on your own terms,

at the mercy of your
own decision making,

it keeps you focused on
what you're doing now.

♪ Is there any way ♪

♪ To get this weight
off my skin ♪

♪ Find another one ♪

♪ Is there anyone ♪

♪ To get this writing
off the wall? ♪

♪ Find a new one ♪

You know, why do a
trip like this?

I think just the act of, of
doing it, being out here,

is really what's important.

You know, out here I
actually have time

to read a book, look inward and
it's not that you can't do it...

by any means,

it's just...

I have yet to find
the discipline

to live my life on land
like I do out to sea.

Going on trips like this, you want
a partner who will support you

and back you up
and raise you up.

We are going to
head to platform 37

and we're going to want to get
on the 13 train to Sendai.

Lando is my brother in this.

We're going to roll this
whole thing together.

There are only a few people in
snowboarding whose style blows me away.

Mikkel is one of them.

There's something about
Japan that I felt

that's where he could
really showcase his riding.

Oh! My God!

Powders good.

The infrastructure they put in
place here to handle the water

just shows you how
much of it they get.

Japan is the snowiest
place on Earth.

Some people say

you can't ride forest because

there are gods living.

But, for my understanding,

if you have respect

good thinking about nature,

nature god will protect you.

Magical out here!

Perfect trees, no branches, just
these beautiful, flower-like canopy.

It's really special to be able
to find a place that lets me

be in that most creative state.

It's been a way for me to key in to
my favorite parts of snowboarding.

Every year, you know, you kinda
get new ideas on what to do.

I kinda had a vision of
playing around in the trees.

When you've come up to the backcountry you
never know what you're going to find.

Pretty much just kids
playing in the sandbox.

This is just one of the things you
got to do to stay in shape out here.

I, of course, had this vision
of just riding powder.

Travis, on the other hand, has to go
to this crazy mountaintop, every time,

and that's how Travis's
mindset works. It's

like, once it's locked
in, it's locked in.

It's pretty epic to be
here beginning of January

and be looking at AK style lines that you
wouldn't be riding till, like, late winter.

I definitely had no idea there
were mountains like this in Japan.

It seems like it's
completely endless too.

Yeah.

This is, like, definitely
a steeper pitch with...

You know, who really
knows what's in there.

The more you look at it, the
friendlier it feels to me.

This is where some of
those big faces are.

This looks a little gnarly.

It's pretty obvious that Travis is pushing
to the alpine every chance we get.

The Japanese Alps, they have everything
for any snowboarder's dream.

They're such a unique
piece of topography.

It's like nowhere else on Earth.

The Japanese Alps are some
of the most majestic,

beautiful mountains
in the world,

yet, I think they can be
some of the most dangerous.

It snows ungodly
amounts in the valley.

What's it doing up there?

We're in a very
volatile environment.

Clouds are moving in, storms are
coming from every direction.

You can't even see the terrain
until that moment the clouds lift.

Beautiful Japanese morning!

Dealing with weather every day.

This our fourth time
trying to climb.

Finally we're peeking
out in the sun.

Yay, Lando!

Every day has been planned good.

We get up and then it ends
up snowing a foot on us.

But today's the day, eh, Mikkel?

- Yup.
- Yeah! Today's the day.

It's out-of-control
beautiful up here.

Whoo!

I did it!

Where he wants to go with his
snowboarding is just kinda bonkers.

I don't know how else to describe
it, but sheer persistence.

I don't understand it,

but when I get to be a
part of that with Travis,

it's beautiful, man.

Dude's just fighting opposition.

All good here.

Getting up to the alpine wasn't something
that I had envisioned in Japan.

It was eye-opening.

I didn't have any idea that there
was terrain like this here.

It does have this
mystical beauty to it.

Oh, shit.

It's a Japanese fire festival.

It's been going on for centuries.
This is insane.

We're, we're pretty much
about to burn up here.

Every snowflake needs
a particle of dust.

Where does most of
the dust come from?

Ash.

Let the fire burn.

When it's just dumping
and it's calm,

that's when I feel
the most alive...

remembering how fun it is to...

just... be lost in it.

Many of us cling to ideas
that we've come up with.

We love them.

We think we've arrived
at certain truths,

but there is so much in our
world that is unknown.

Travis sent me an email
saying, "You're in."

All I knew was that we
were going to Kamchatka.

And it was going to
be an epic adventure.

♪ Ride all day till
the light's gone ♪

♪ I'm with all my friends
Friends, friends ♪

♪ Said I'm with all my friends ♪

It's so thrilling to go somewhere
that's completely unknown.

Eric's the kinda guy who gets
excited by the unexpected.

He's just down.

You realize pretty quick that
Travis pushes the limits.

He pushes himself.

He puts all of his time and energy
into what he's obsessed with.

Dude, where are we?

Planet Hoth.

I can see wind just ripping, snow
being taken off at every peak.

We got wind!

Holy shit!

The wind's blowing the snow
somewhere, we just got to find it.

Up top, it's weird crust stuff.

Up above that, it's
wind affected.

Just trying to figure
out what to do.

This volcano, it's sheet ice.

When I'm just feeling like
something isn't right,

it's very easy for
me to pull the plug.

Travis doesn't pull back, he'll
just keep punching forward

until he gets what he wants and
until there's nothing left.

I wouldn't have set
foot on that volcano.

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Yeah, man. I'm ready.

Oh!

Dude...

Dude, that was a burner.

Seriously.

Not the worse run of my life, the
worse snow I've ever ridden.

That was the longest run
in my life, hands down.

Yeah, it's a long one.

There are going to be two options,
it's either, we go to the interior

and try and find some
more low elevation stuff

or go to beach and go surf.

Fuck me, dude!

- What?
- I don't surf, bro.

Negative 40, coldest day of the trip
and we're going to get in the water.

Hey, Lando!

Ah!

Just being in that cold water
my arms started seizing.

It scared the shit out of me.

Those guys like that shit,
I guess, I don't though.

Fuck this!

The reason that we wanted
to come here was because

for years we've ridden Japan,
for years we've ridden Alaska.

They get the best conditions on the
planet, and then you look on a map

and you see this incredible
Kuril Island chain.

It's so good here and it's so good here.
What the heck is in the middle?

Kurils, it's one of the
most difficult place

on our planet to
organize this kind of...

operation.

From our lodge
straight to the Kurils

will be, like, 200 kilometers.

That means about an hour
flying, 50 minutes.

But then, from here to this
island, one more hour.

And some part of the flight,
we have open ocean.

Sounds like a freaking
psycho mission.

"Psycho mission."

That's the right word.

That's the right word.

You know, weather can
change really fast,

we must be really lucky...

with everything.

Hopefully we'll get that
perfect weather window.

The weather has been
beautiful in Kamchatka.

We've had negative 40 degrees,
plus 40 degrees the next day.

So this is calling
for Wednesday.

Thursday, Friday,
there's a chance.

Yeah, the weather's been
like a kick in the nuts.

When you're hanging out in the
lodge waiting for weather,

your mind can play
tricks on you.

I don't know, we're just, uh...

We're here.

We're in it.

We're just letting
blind optimism...

rule our destiny.

We have some news for us.

Forecast shows

big, high pressure system.

That's Kurils. Internet shows,
like one week good weather.

Classic! Classic Kamchatka!

You know, we see this,
like, really small window,

and we finally decided to pull
the trigger and head south.

There was so much build up,
so much emotion and energy.

We're like, "All right.
This is it!"

We're going to the Kurils!

Halfway, you see
this current line.

They're like eight foot breaking
waves where the Pacific Ocean

and the Okhotsk Sea are
just grinding together.

To watch that energy moving
across the planet, it's powerful.

No?

I don't really know
what's going on.

We can't leave the helicopter...

that's one thing
that's going on.

Bureaucracy is the issue here.

We have all the
proper paperwork.

We got approved by the military, but
apparently it's a different military,

so these guys won't let us in.

They're shutting us down.

They're shutting us down!

We've been detained
for, like, six hours,

but we're just trying to get out of here.
It's a two-hour flight home,

and there's about two and half
hours of daylight left, so...

Just trying to keep sanity here.

♪ So we made it down
To the Kuril Islands ♪

♪ Had high hopes ♪

♪ But they would not let
us Even past the ropes ♪

♪ Are we ever going
to Get to shred? ♪

♪ I don't know ♪

Oh, no.

♪ This morning ♪

♪ We thought we were
going to Ride powder ♪

Powder.

♪ Nah, fool, we're just POWs ♪

♪ Locked up ♪

Dude.

What, dude?

- Let's make a run for it.
- Yeah?

That's for you.

All you guys.

If we can't ride here, at least
these kids can keep riding here.

This way we leave a little
piece of us with them.

Oh! I can't believe this.

That's crazy, that
snowboarding is alive there.

Goodbye!

It's so painful.

I spent, like, two years
planning this trip.

We got completely shut down.

When things don't come together,

I'm so compelled to figure
out how it does work.

I dig deeper to find the truth.

Alaska, it's the place where
it might seem like it's...

you at odds with the
physical terrain.

But Alaska is really just the
backdrop for you against yourself.

It's as far as you
want to take it.

It's definitely the driest
we've ever seen it out here.

I don't think I've ever seen
this much rock in Alaska

in the wintertime before, ever.

One of the least amounts
of snowfall in 100 years

in Alaskan history, so that's
kind of what we're looking at.

- Holy shit.
- Holy shit!

Some facets on top
of that crust.

On top of this, ring crust.

It's definitely scary.

For the next storm to come
in, we want it to come in

warm and wet, rip it out
and then snow like,

you know, quite a bit on top of that.
Would be

best case scenario,
in a dream world.

Yeah.

I'd like to live
in a dream world.

Got to tiptoe, unfortunately.

A little more scary when you got
to tiptoe instead of charge.

On the road from Japan
straight into Russia,

came straight up
here and, you know,

just kinda...

We're just...

Just battling the whole
time, man, and I just...

I got to get out of this.

I can't keep battling.

I don't know. Big mountains have always
scared me and I have always been able to...

deal with that fear and just...

I don't know, there's something about
the snow pack, the low tide and...

Just something doesn't feel right, so,
I got to listen to my gut instinct.

Amen.

- What a whirlwind.
- Go get it.

- Yeah, thanks.
- Buddy.

Love you, bud.

Hate to bail, but I got to.

One half of me is disappointed

that a partner of mine can't
meet me where I'm at.

And then the other side
of me is pure compassion,

'cause I know that it's
what I'm pushing towards.

Going over some of the details
of So Far Gone right now.

Now if the conditions were good you can
knock that stuff out pretty quick.

Just take a look at these photos from
our scout flight a couple of days ago.

Yeah, see, if you look at
photos from last year.

You know, all this is, like,
rideable, filled in, like...

It takes a season's worth of snow for So
Far Gone, I don't think that's happening.

You know, we kinda got a long
game with the plan and this area

and seeing as how this year is already
really challenging out there,

and not looking all that safe from what
we've been able to collect so far.

Maybe we go out next year

when we hope conditions are
better than they are this year.

We grow into that.

It was looking really bleak.

We were talking about
pulling out of the field.

We did two weeks waiting for
a good snow and then we saw

a mass of low pressure,
way off the Aleutians,

coming from Russia and
watched it for days,

and it just turned into this
incredible, stable snowpack.

So Far Gone is not happening,

but there are places that you
can go and still find...

somewhat normal conditions.

So it's just the two
of us, so we're gonna

definitely be shredding
with the third in spirit.

Yeah.

Um...

But, you know, a little bummed
that he had to, he had to bounce.

Looks like AK.

I'm scared, finally.

You've got to cross the slough.

I was thinking about
coming in the middle here.

Travis pushes the limit so hard, but
when we look at decisions that he makes,

they're very calculated.

That's probably what I
respect the most about him.

He sees that he could
ride it and he will.

Trav, you got this, buddy!

- Dropping.
- Go on, man.

Look at that, buddy. Get this.
Get this!

Oh!

Yeah!

Good job, boys.

That makes it all worth
it, right there.

- Amen.
- That's what we live for.

A beautiful day.

Seriously. Yeah, buddy.

You land things and you
don't land things.

I guess if you're Travis,
you usually land things

that you probably
shouldn't have landed.

The fragment's the
size of my finger.

The CAT scan on top of the MRI
shows a little old injury

and then the new injury
on top of the old injury.

No question.

On the right side that's normal
volume to the nerve holes,

but if you look at the left
side almost all of its disc.

Most people would be laying on the
floor, carrying him on an ironing board.

They wouldn't be up walking around
smiling with that kind of rupture.

If you look at this,
which is the paraspinous

muscle and the belly
muscle, the soleus.

His muscles around his spine

are the single biggest
ones I've ever seen.

His core muscles are
literally like this...

- I mean, I've never see this. It's insane.
- It's huge.

Travis Rice, a left L 4-5
posterior lumbar microdiscectomy.

No known drug allergies,
two grams of Ancef is in.

What's the fourth phase?

When water meets a surface,

the molecules undergo
massive change.

They become structured,

they acquire charge...

All you need is light.

Waking up. The surgery is done.
Went perfect.

You in there?

Open your eyes up.

You're going to be back.

When we set out on a goal,
follow through means a lot,

and you push it a lot,

regardless of how the
outcome might end up.

Yep.

My phone rings and I was like,
"Why is Travis Rice calling me,

telling me all about his trip," and
he wants to go to the sickest place

he's ever seen in Alaska.

Then at some point he tells me,

"Yeah, I would be stoked
if you could join in."

I could not truly believe it.

So Far Gone finally feels like
it's coming into alignment,

but living and snowboarding in an area like
this comes with a lot of heavy exposure.

I'm just gonna get my legs and mind
warmed up to this style of riding again,

reconnect with the
mountains here in Alaska.

In Valdez, perfect warm up

before a big mission
in the glaciers.

I don't feel like
I chose Victor,

it's what he's done
in snowboarding,

the ways he's tried to
express his own riding.

He wrote his own destiny.

Victor in three... two...
one... dropping!

Travis, dropping.

That's it.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Victor and his French rules.

It's been about ten years
since I went out with Jones

and camped on a
glacier for a month

and totally changed my perspective on
ways to operate up here in Alaska.

It's great to have him up here
so we can kinda get aligned for

our approach into So Far Gone.

Jeremy Jones, and
he's right there.

Rice, I'm 100 percent.

Copy that.

Give her heaven, buddy.

Fuck, yeah. Dude, get this.

Good job, Victor.

Travis, just give me a
circle when you're ready.

Three... two... one...

Travis, dropping.

I find myself infatuated...

with a vision of doing something
in such a specific way.

I have not figured out
how to separate...

reckless optimism...

from a healthy appetite
to pursue things,

until it becomes impossible.

To be able to know
the difference...

Yeah, it'd be amazing.

I've been lucky to have
a few glimpses into...

what this idea of
letting go really is.

I know it's possible.

I was laying there, very upset
with the decisions I made.

Angry that I'd just
injured myself,

knowing that So Far Gone wasn't
going to happen, and I had a shift.

I was given this gift of humility
and appreciation for life.

And everything that happens to me
is this opportunity for learning.

Really, the greatest journey

is the one that you take towards a
better understanding of yourself

and this incredible life

that we get to live.

Now we get the wind back.

Okay.

There she is.

Yay, Lando!

Fuck, yeah, Rice.

You're gonna be
bouncing right over.

We feel free when a new
understanding appears.

So, that's where we
get great pleasure.

We stumble and we try and finally
something comes together.

It's beautiful.

This process we follow...

This cycle we ride.

There was a series of letters
from Einstein to his daughter,

and they weren't to be released
until many years after her death.

And one of them was
a charming story,

he said, "Take my
equation, E = mc2

and replace the 'm, ' replace
the mass with love."

He said, "You put love
into the equation,

and love times the speed of
light square gives you energy."

He says, "The real
energy comes from love."

Who's got a phone? I
have to call my mom.

Mom. Hey, Mom. Yeah,
can you hear me?

Hey, I did it.

Huh? No, no, no,
she's not pregnant.

I mean snowboarding. I couldn't
have done it without you.

All right, ma. I got to go.

All right. Love you.
No, you hang up.

Two ducks in a pond and
a burned out belt.

It's the way to
start the morning.

We need to reinvent ourselves.

I'm gonna dye my hair and
start doing one foot tricks.

I'm going to grow a beard and
just be a sarcastic asshole.

Has anyone seen Wheeler?

Just got back from battle, dude.

That's what it's
all about, boys.

Watch out for this
guy, he's straight up.

Flippin' that, flippin' this.

These fans are going to get goin'.
All this stuff's gonna light up,

so I don't want you to
be freaked out by that.

We're gonna serve lunch
right on the tip top

of that volcano up there.

Spewing hot lava, we're
gonna have hot soup,

hot coffee, that's gonna
be hot shit right now.

Captain, I think we're
about ready to take off.

We gotta go now!

The course is ready.

There comes the vibe.

Thanks, guys.

We are deep in the mountains
that we've hiked for two days.

It's rugged conditions out there, way
worse than when Jeremy Jones was here.

It's burlap sack out there, bro.

- Tell me when it's in the right spot.
- All right.

Yeah, that's how you block.

I gotta let the big dogs eat, then the
little, small dog can eat after that.

Just like the X
Games right, bud?

Just have someone else
build you a park.

The jump would be finished if you
were shoveling, not filming nothing.

The crew is really fired
up for this mission.

Everything's really
starting to make sense.

And I think, even back at home
people are gonna be really impressed

by what we're gonna bring home.

Yeah, I'm in the field.
Listen, we got an emergency.

Listen, I know you're
just sitting there.

No, we're just looking for gnarly
conditions, one way or the other.

Earn your keep.

I was bored a couple of years back,
decided to go to flight school.

Fly around them long enough, you
want to be able to fly one.

Yeah, you know, things are
different these days.

You can't just roam around
the streets of Tokyo,

with your GoPro 3, ah, 3.5,

thinking you're going to get a freaking
viral video to go past 0.5 million.

Welcome to Alaska.

Let the games begin!

Hell, yeah, slapstick.

Oh!

We got Scott Serfas and Mark Landvik
versus Travis Rice and Eric Jackson.

Little two-on-two,
half court press.

What you gonna do, bitch?

All right, Trav. Let's do this.

Marquesas Dead ahead!

We want to find snow!
We gotta go that way!

West!

No, left, you idiot!

That way.

Is that all you've got?

Bring it on!