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  • Scott Serfas cover image of Travis Rice for Huck Magazine.
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  • Scott Serfas cover image of Travis Rice for Snowboardmag Magazine.
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  • Scott Serfas cover image of Travis Rice for The Red Bulletin Magazine.
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  • Scott Serfas cover image of Travis Rice for Snowboard Canada Business Magazine.
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  • Illumination<br />
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Travis Rice slashes a snow wave near the end of the day in the Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska while filming for the Art of Flight movie. This was the last image I took after more then 4 weeks of shooting and sleeping in the mountains. This photo won the illumination category in the Red Bull Illume photo contest. <br />
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I had been in the Tordrillo Mountains for 4 weeks with the Brain Farm Cinema crew documenting the making of the Art of Flight movie. From day one I had it in my mind that I wouldn’t leave without shooting a photo from a hovering helicopter looking straight down on a rider. Unfortunately setting up this kind of shot was much more complicated then I originally thought. We had 2 helicopters on this trip. The first was the film ship, fitted with a Cineflex aerial camera to the nose. It’s important for this ship to be as light as possible so that it could manoeuvre quickly so I wasn't allowed to shoot from that one. The second helicopter was the riders ship. It would shuttle the riders around getting them on top of the lines they wanted to ride and would pick them up at the bottom. As a photographer I would use this ship to move myself around when it wasn't possible to snowboard there. So when I found the right terrain to shoot my aerial photo, I had to coordinate the move I wanted to make with the film ship as it would generally fly all over the place to get the best shot of the entire line. In the end we decided I would just hover above the line, hang out the side and shoot while the film ship would do its thing around us. This was the best way to keep both helicopters from crashing into each other.<br />
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Once I was harnessed in and hanging out of the helicopter, we lifted up and hovered a few 100 feet above the line. Travis was called in to drop and made this single turn before disappearing over the edge. It would have been nice to follow him down the whole line but that just wasn't going to be safe.<br />
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It was around
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  • Just another day in the office for professional snowboarder Travis Rice as he negotiates his way down a steep ridge while filming in Alaska.
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  • Glory Day<br />
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2014 was an especially poor season in Alaska. It hadn’t snowed much at all that year and most of the terrain we are used to riding was bare. After about ten days of waiting patiently in a backcountry cabin, our spirits at an all time low, a freak storm showed up on the radar and dropped enough snow to save our trip. This image of Travis Rice celebrating the new snow was shot at the top of our first run, when the sun broke out from the clouds creating the most beautiful light.
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  • Professional snowboarder Travis Rice slashes a ridge on his snowboard while filming in his home town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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  • Watching, Waiting, Exploding. <br />
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In 2014 I travelled with Travis Rice to a remote region within the Kamchatka Peninsula, home of about 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. Our goal was simple, to snowboard on a volcano. We spent a day and night at the base of this particular volcano, sleeping in tents outside of an abandoned cabin, soaking in all its beauty. Unfortunately it was deemed too dangerous to ride.
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  • The Tordrillo Mountains are a small range in the south central region of Alaska. They lie approximately 120 km northwest of Anchorage and are primarily volcanic, which may be what makes them so perfect for snowboarding. On a recent trip there, accompanied by two of the best riders in the world, I was able to photograph the best, most progressive backcountry snowboarding to date.<br />
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Travis Rice catches huge air doing a backside 720 nose grab in Alaska shooting for the Art of Flight movie.
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  • The Tordrillo Mountains are a small range in the south central region of Alaska. They lie approximately 120 km northwest of Anchorage and are primarily volcanic, which may be what makes them so perfect for snowboarding. On a recent trip there, accompanied by two of the best riders in the world, I was able to photograph the best, most progressive backcountry snowboarding to date.<br />
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Travis Rice slashes a snow wave near the end of the day in Alaska while filming for the Art of Flight movie.
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  • “The Crack” looks like an insanely intimidating and alluring feature when you think about riding it. Pro skier Cody Townsend rode The Crack and ended up winning Powder Magazine’s ‘Line Of The Year’ award and ‘Best Male Performance‘, it was said that his ski line was the ‘most insane ever.’<br />
However, it was actually Travis Rice who made the first descent on a couloir feature he and Eric Jackson dubbed “The Crack” in the spring of 2014.
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  • Every sunny day we had in the Tordrillo Mountains was epic! And every day after was even more epic than the last. I remember being out this one day for a full 14 hours, shooting what I knew was the best snowboarding in the history of the sport. As the sun started to make its way to the horizon, we packed up and with minimal fuel started our flight back to the lodge. Then, over the next ridge, Travis spotted this amazing spine line with perfect light, and over the headset begged the pilot to turn around and drop him on top for one last run.<br />
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Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and we were back in action again. It was 9:37 p.m. and the sun was dropping when Travis dropped into this line. I shot from the hovering helicopter a few hundred feet out in front of him. Later, Travis described this line as one of the best runs of his life. Four feet of blower pow on each side of these almost vertical spines. Another day in the history books.
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  • This photo of Travis Rice was taken on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Eastern Russia during the making of The Fourth Phase movie. We were living in a backcountry lodge for the entire month of February and would take a Russian MI-8 military helicopter into the mountains to shoot whenever the weather was good. <br />
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On our first day in the mountains our guide wanted to show us all the terrain in the area, so we really didn’t get much riding in. While flying over this part of the ocean we decided to land and get our boards in the snow. Turns out, after a month of shooting this day would be one of the best of the entire trip.
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  • Illumination<br />
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Travis Rice slashes a snow wave near the end of the day in the Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska while filming for the Art of Flight movie. This was the last image I took after more then 4 weeks of shooting and sleeping in the mountains. This photo won the illumination category in the Red Bull Illume photo contest.
    20100507_serfas_67648.jpg
  • Glory Day<br />
<br />
2014 was an especially poor season in Alaska. It hadn’t snowed much at all that year and most of the terrain we are used to riding was bare. After about ten days of waiting patiently in a backcountry cabin, our spirits at an all time low, a freak storm showed up on the radar and dropped enough snow to save our trip. This image of Travis Rice celebrating the new snow was shot at the top of our first run, when the sun broke out from the clouds creating the most beautiful light.
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  • Volcanos in every direction, rock hard snow and 60mph winds. Travis Rice soaks it all up.
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  • Travis dressed in indigenous garb.
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  • The film crew flys back to the lodge and leaves us to play a bit longer.
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  • Late night review of the days footage back at our home away from home.
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  • Curt Morgan said he found an ice cave perfect for playing hockey in. I thought he was kidding. Before we knew it hockey gear was flown in from Anchorage and it was game on.
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