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.