[MUSIC PLAYING]
BRYAN IGUCHI: Today we're going to go take some
snowmobiles out and try to build a couple jumps, or at
least build a jump.
Try and get a couple jump shots.
Working on a photo shoot for Volcom right now.
Kind of doing like a little web edit little
short for the internet.
And then just shooting photos for a TransWorld magazine
story on Jackson Hole.
KEVIN JONES: Once again, Guch is taking the early steps.
Like, OK, I'm going to go get certified to be a guide.
I'm going to spend most my time with my head in the snow
pit, figuring out what kind of snow crystal is morphing with
another one, which is all knowledge that the future of
snowboarding is going to have to have if they want to go to
these places in the back country and be alive
to tell about it.
KEVIN JONES: I mean, to this day, he snowboards more than
anybody I know.
And he loves it more than anybody I know.
It can be a really shitty run.
And Guch is fired up like, that was so sick.
And you're like, yeah, I guess it was sick.
[SNOWMOBILE ENGINE REVVING]
KEVIN JONES: There's nobody, that I, one, on a stoke level
would want to ride with and, two, just on an overall safety
factor would want to ride with.
The guy is just truly a bad ass.
And there's no one else like him.
BILLY ANDERSON: We keep getting older, but they all
stay the same age.
So it's like everyone's coming up, and they're running into
the same challenges year after year after year.
And if we can bring authentic experience to our team, it's
just huge value for us.
I mean, Guch has been there and lived through his mistakes
and grown from them.
And if we can have those guys around to mentor the next
generation, it's just going to make them better people,
better snowboarders.
And that's extremely valuable to us.
[SNOWMOBILE ENGINE REVVING]
BRYAN FOX: For me, being on a trip with Travis, and having
him talk about Iguchi, is still--
I've never met Bryan Iguchi.
And when he talks about them it's still like that little
kid, you know where, that's crazy.
You know that guy.
That's weird to say, because I'm an adult and that shit
doesn't matter at all, it's just some guy.
But it's still like you get that, like, that's crazy.
You casually hang out with this guy who you still just
hold him on this little pedestal.
Like, fucking this guy's cool as shit, no matter what.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Fuck!
VERNON: [INAUDIBLE].
JAKE PRICE: That was sick, though.
VERNON: Yeah.
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, watching Guch ride is better than going
and building a jump, Vernon.
Let the other guys do all the bitch work.
And we'll just show up and film it.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Want more?
JAKE PRICE: Yeah.
BRYAN IGUCHI: OK.
JAKE PRICE: Or a couple more.
BRYAN IGUCHI: OK.
JAKE PRICE: Like I said, we don't have to build a jump.
We can sit here and watch him ride.
[SNOWMOBILE ENGINE REVVING]
KEVIN JONES: The last couple years I got the ride with
Bryan a bunch.
And it's not about going out and getting the raddest
snowboarding, although that is an objective.
But he's done enough to know that it's about having a good
time out there.
And we went on a camping trip last year.
And there was not really any good snow around.
Guch goes and butters out those cornice and then just
does this Backside 5, and stomps it.
It wasn't like the hugest thing in the world.
But for the conditions that we had, I was blown away.
We had some younger guys in our group.
And I'm like, this guy is like 10 years older than these.
These kids should be up here riding this, and he should be
down here watching.
But no.
He lapped the thing like 20 times and was just taking what
the mountains gave him.
And that inspired me once again.
JAKE PRICE: You going to side flip it?
BRYAN IGUCHI: I'm just going to go.
JAKE PRICE: OK.
VERNON: You guys ready?
JAKE PRICE: Yep.
VERNON: Ready.
Well, that's a fun jump, though.
Perfect nice landing.
JAKE PRICE: Heck yeah.
VERNON: You can't even hear him.
JAKE PRICE: He hit the pocket that time.
VERNON: Yeah.
BRYAN IGUCHI: I think I've taken the right path.
And I think my perseverance with
snowboarding is paying off.
It's like I'm still involved as a professional snowboarder.
And it's just changing.
I feel more as an ambassador for the sport.
They want to continue to support me with my
snowboarding, they want to film and shoot photos, I love
to go out and ride.
I'll always be out there.
Camera or not, or regardless of who I'm with, I'm going to
be out snowboarding.
I love it, man.
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, ready.
VERNON: Ready.
JAKE PRICE: Wow, he's on fire.
VERNON: He wants to keep hitting it.
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, Guch.
BRYAN IGUCHI: It feels good to be a part of it, and to be
able to offer something and contribute to younger
snowboarders, and the Volcom team, and having the guys want
to come out and ride with me, and be able to help out with
photo shoots, and help get film shots, and help
just make it happen.
I think it feels good to be a part of the team.
We going?
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, dude.
BRYAN IGUCHI: I feel weird.
JAKE PRICE: How come?
BRYAN IGUCHI: Just solo sessioning.
JAKE PRICE: That's awesome.
BILLY ANDERSON: Guch is just an amazing person.
He's just very humble and thankful, great energy, and
just a lot of mountain know-how.
He is just very aware of what's going on.
And it's dangerous out there, like with avalanches and just
different snow conditions, different environments.
Things are always changing out there, and you need
experience.
JAKE PRICE: Fuck yeah, Guch.
Over 40 and doing, was that Backside 7?
VERNON: Backside 7 and [INAUDIBLE]?
JAKE PRICE: It's so sick, man.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Want to get going?
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, I do.
BRYAN IGUCHI: OK.
Well, I'm here, I planted my roots.
I met my wife here.
I have my son Milo now.
The community and my friends.
It's just home now.
And I'm still continuing to find new places to ride.
And it's still challenging and fun.
I think it's a lot of mountains, a lot of mountains
to explore, a lot of good riding to be had.
I feel it's every season that I have new objectives or I'm
discovering new things and getting to know it better.
BILLY ANDERSON: The doors that he's opening for younger
riders at earlier stages is just something that would be
such a bummer if he wasn't doing it.
And if you had to do that to get to where he is now, I
don't think he missed out on anything.
TRAVIS RICE: I guess the one thing I would say was, beyond
even any of the zones or avalanche knowledge or any
type of actual thing that he showed me, more than anything
he just lives his life.
And he answers to truth and honesty and respect for
himself and the people around him.
BILLY ANDERSON: When I see kind of how he's grown up
through it and be able to take it from a really heavy skate
influence scene and time and really gone with snowboarding
and transformed into the mountains, I mean he's really
at a legendary status.
The lock down that he has on Jackson Hole,
and just his guiding.
And I think he's just about to revamp this whole thing, which
is his potential and influence that he can have on
snowboarding.
There's a full second or even third coming of Bryan
Iguchi right now.
JAKE PRICE: One man demo.
VERNON: Got back.
Several of those were sick, dude.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Thanks.
JAKE PRICE: That was fucking awesome.
BRYAN IGUCHI: This is a fun, fun little jump.
This is fun, you know.
VERNON: Dude, the Back 7 was so sick.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Oh, thanks, man.
VERNON: Man.
BRYAN IGUCHI: This is my snowboard park, you know.
JAKE PRICE: Yeah, just like the--
BRYAN IGUCHI: Kind of like go to fun session jump.
VERNON: It's sick.
That was great.
BRYAN IGUCHI: That cliff up there is pretty sweet, man.
It reminds me of Mission.
There's a step-down over here, too, that might be in.
Did those guys go to the boundary?
JAKE PRICE: Yep.
BRYAN IGUCHI: Cool.
JAKE PRICE: Should we probably go over and meet them?
VERNON: It that far over, or not?
More or less, or?
BRYAN IGUCHI: Whatever you want.
JAKE PRICE: Can we bring them back and
just have a fun session?
How did you get-- oh, that's a snowmobiler.
Oh see, that's a 6 slash right there, too.
VERNON: In the pocket?
JAKE PRICE: Yeah.
VERNON: It's beautiful.
I'd love to shoot with him there.
JAKE PRICE: You can get up a little higher and see all the
[INAUDIBLE], too.
VERNON: He's going to be here in the morning, huh?
Before the sledders come?