Rick Armstrong

"Sick" Rick Armstrong is a professional skier^[1], freeskiing pioneer ^[2][3], mountaineer^[4][5], paraglider^[6], businessman and serial entrepreneur ^[7] based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was a pioneering guide in the early years of Alaska Heli-skiing while working as a lead guide for Valdez Heli-skiing and Doug Coombs as chronicled in the 2007 feature film Steep. He was a member of the ultra-elite group of skiers called the Jackson Hole Airforce who transformed skiing in the 1990s and 2000s ^{[8] [9]}. He is known for having skied unskied lines such as his first and unrepeated massive drop into the left side of the notorious Corbet's Couloir^[10] at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. He was the first person to have both skied and snowboarded the Grand Teton in Teton National Park. He has many first ski descents^[11] in China, Alaska, Europe, Antarctica, South America, and South Georgia Island. He was an athlete in the 1998 and 1999 Winter X-Games in Crested Butte. He was Awarded sponsorships by The North Face^[12][13][14] and Salomon^[15]. He also became an athlete talent scout for The North Face^[16] building a world-class ski team by discovering soon to be ski stars such as Sage-Cattabriga-Alosa, Ingrid Backstrom, Kitt Deslauries, Griffen Post, and Hillary Nelson. Armstrong was also a co-founder of the Teton Gravity Research film production company. He served on the board of directors for Intrawest from 2012 to 2017.

Films

Armstrong appears in the following films:

• Steep (film) (2007)
• Warren Miller's Black Diamond Rush (1993)
• Warren Miller's Storm (2001)
• Teton Gravity Research's first film, The Continuum (1996)
• Teton Gravity Research's Harvest (1997)
• Teton Gravity Research's Further (2000)
• Teton Gravity Research's The Big One (2006)
• Matchstick Productions Soul Sessions - (1993)
• Matchstick Productions The Hedonist (1994)
• Matchstick Productions The Tribe (1995)
• Someday Somebody will ski that. (2010)
• Swift Silent Deep (2009)
• RAP Films Snow Drifters
• RAP Films Cosmic Winter

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