When I got approached by Travis Rice and Curt Morgan to shoot for “That’s It, That’s All” I was super stoked . Curt’s movie making skills have always impressed me and I have known Travis since he was 16 and have always been blown away by his riding. All of our paths have crossed many times over the years but we have never worked together.

I did have few concerns though. After all it was Alaska in April and I did not want to get stuck building jumps when the steeps were in. Travis assured me lines would be the primary goal of the trip. My other concern was who the crew would be. Travis, Curt and threw out some names and pretty quickly came up with what we thought would be the dream group of riders that had the skills and the right attitude for filming and riding in AK. Now that we have some film days under our belt I can say the mission was accomplished. What I have seen the last few days by Nicolas, Landvik, and Travis is insane. Their freestyle skills are flawless and the speed in which they have progressed their Big Mountsain Riding is incredible. Simply put, no one misses.

Nicolas has been spending a lot of time in AK and it shows. He loves to billy goat around ridges (the scariest part of riding in AK) and he has progressed from “mini shred master” to balls out big mountain rider. Nicolas hiked a good thirty minutes to this line. It looks mellow but reading cornices is super hard to do.

Nicolas moments before he lines up a f/s 360 over a spine at the bottom of his line.

Nico’s AK version of “mini shred” a 30 foot 180 into a small AK face.

A chugach classic, The Wall. (The face to the left.) When I first came to Valdez the Wall was considered the outer edge of the universe. These days it feels close to home. I hit the lookers right spine along the cliff. I would never ride over that much exposure if I had any concerns with the snow pack.

My track on the bottom half. We are now a few days into a high pressure and aspects are everything. I rode full on pow on the spine while ten feet away was sluffed out bullet proof crust.

Lando had to boot this thing. I gave him the billygoat badge after he successfully negotiated the top of this ridge over the exposure. Here he is enjoying the pay off.

Curt sits in the back directing the shot while Herma runs the cam up front and Bill flies the Heli. I have used an areal camera like this for commercials in the past. It was always used to shoot mellow ridding in bad conditions but the footage always looked great. Thanks to Curt’s efforts we are now shooting sick riding in awesome conditions and the results are mind blowing.

Instant gratification. Normally I do not see footage until June. Here I am checking out shots 40 minutes later on our way home.