Travis Rice

Travis Rice was born on 9 October 1982 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is an American professional snowboarder. He grew up near Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wilson, Wyoming, where he still lives, and was raised as a skier by his father Paul, a member of the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol. Recognition came in 2001, when at eighteen and without a sponsor he drove to Mammoth Mountain in California and launched a backside rodeo across a 117-foot gap jump at Snowboarder magazine's Superpark contest. He went on to win several US Opens, an X Games gold and an Icer Air gold, where he landed the first double rodeo 1080 in competition. He co-produced and starred in the film That's It, That's All in 2008, released The Art of Flight in 2011, The Fourth Phase in 2016 and Dark Matter in 2019, and in 2012 created the Red Bull backcountry freestyle competition Natural Selection, which he won in its inaugural year. Red Bull named him the best contemporary snowboarder in the world in 2013, and he was the first real-life snowboarder featured in the video game series SSX.