Rumors of Travis Rice and Romain De Marchi's exploits on a 120-plus-foot jump in Utah called Chad's Gap drifted around the pro-snowboard community over the past winter like dead leaves in the wind. "They were throwing down Cab 720s, switch backside fives, rodeo sevens," reports Absinthe Founder Justin Hostynek. "Seriously, it was the most amazing things ever witnessed." It's for this reason that these two riders, along with Burton European rookie Nicolas Mueller, will be the darkhorse snowboard video of the year.