Hailing from big, bad Jackson Hole, Wyoming, an area renown for the number of World Class riders emanating from it’s ample bosom, Travis Rice has arguably changed snowboarding more than any other rider since Terje Haakonsen started going bigger backwards than all of his peers of the time. The son of a Ski Patroller, Travis was on snow from before he was toilet trained where the steeps and deeps of his home resorts nurtured and refined his big mountain skills while early riding partners including the likes of  Brian Iguchi, Brodi Dowell, Eric Risland, Lance Pittman honed his freestyle skills. Travis’s personality could be described as a warped combination of ‘Denis the Menace’ and Barney Rubble on Ritalin – cheeky, totally focused and hopelessly hyperactive. As a relative unknown, Travis rocked up to Snowboarder’s Super Park in 2001 and simply blew minds, blew up and has never looked back since. His riding style is big, bad, forwards or backwards and often multiply inverted – few outside of Romain de Marchi can, do or want to keep up. Big mountain Heli follow cam freestyle, mega-stadium contests, parks, quarters and recently even halfpipe, Travis is guaranteed to pull the unexpected, produce the unseen and push the accepted envelope. Alongside his riding, Travis’s rambunctious personality and understated confidence have seen him to go onto producing his own flims and creating his own unique contest concept in his beloved Jackson Hole where the natural terrain happily teamed with nature to dump to dump 6-feet of snow the day before the event – producing Amped 27 level riding. There is no doubt the sport is not the same since Travis picked it and kicked it in his short 24 years, the only question left that is out to lunch is exactly where he will take it before he eventually hangs up his boots....