The Fourth Phase Page #3

ERIC:
Travis doesn't pull back,

he'll just keep punching forward

until he gets what he wants

and until there's nothing left.

I wouldn't have set foot on that volcano.

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Yeah, man. I'm ready.

[MUSIC]

Oh!

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
Dude...

Dude, that was a burner.

TRAVIS:
Seriously.

Not the worse run of my life,

the worse snow I've ever ridden.

That was the longest run

in my life, hands down.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, it's a long one.

There are going to be two options,

it's either, we go to the interior

and try and find some more

low elevation stuff

or go to beach and go surf.

[ERIC LAUGHS]

[MUSIC]

ERIC:
F*** me, dude!

- What?

- I don't surf, bro.

Negative 40, coldest day of the trip

and we're going to get in the water.

Hey, Lando!

Ah!

["COLUMBUS" PLAYING]

Just being in that cold water

my arms started seizing.

It scared the sh*t out of me.

Those guys like that sh*t,

I guess, I don't though.

[MUSIC]

F*** this!

TRAVIS:
The reason that we wanted

to come here was because

for years we've ridden Japan,

for years we've ridden Alaska.

They get the best conditions on the planet,

and then you look on a map

and you see this incredible

Kuril Island chain.

It's so good here and it's so good here.

What the heck is in the middle?

Kurils, it's one

of the most difficult place

on our planet to organize this kind of...

operation.

From our lodge straight to the Kurils

will be, like, 200 kilometers.

That means about

an hour flying, 50 minutes.

But then, from here

to this island, one more hour.

And some part of the flight,

we have open ocean.

Sounds like a freaking psycho mission.

GUIDE:
"Psycho mission."

That's the right word.

[ALL LAUGHING]

That's the right word.

You know, weather can change really fast,

we must be really lucky...

with everything.

Hopefully we'll get that

perfect weather window.

[WIND BLOWING]

The weather has been beautiful

in Kamchatka.

We've had negative 40 degrees,

plus 40 degrees the next day.

So this is calling for Wednesday.

Thursday, Friday, there's a chance.

Yeah, the weather's been

like a kick in the nuts.

When you're hanging out

in the lodge waiting for weather,

your mind can play tricks on you.

[YELPING]

[SINGING]

[WOMEN SINGING]

[DRUM MUSIC AND CHANTING]

I don't know, we're just, uh...

We're here.

We're in it.

We're just letting blind optimism...

rule our destiny.

[SNICKERING]

We have some news for us.

Forecast shows

big, high pressure system.

That's Kurils. Internet shows,

like one week good weather.

TRAVIS:
Classic! Classic Kamchatka!

You know, we see this,

like, really small window,

and we finally decided to pull

the trigger and head south.

MAN 3:
There was so much build up,

so much emotion and energy.

We're like, "All right. This is it!"

We're going to the Kurils!

[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING]

TRAVIS:
Halfway,

you see this current line.

They're like eight foot

breaking waves where the Pacific Ocean

and the Okhotsk Sea

are just grinding together.

To watch that energy moving

across the planet, it's powerful.

[MUSIC]

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

No?

[PEOPLE TALKING OVER RADIO]

I don't really know what's going on.

We can't leave the helicopter...

that's one thing that's going on.

TRAVIS:
Bureaucracy is the issue here.

We have all the proper paperwork.

We got approved by the military,

but apparently it's a different military,

so these guys won't let us in.

They're shutting us down.

They're shutting us down!

We've been detained for, like, six hours,

but we're just trying to get out of here.

It's a two-hour flight home,

and there's about two and half

hours of daylight left, so...

Just trying to keep sanity here.

# So we made it down

To the Kuril Islands #

# Had high hopes #

# But they would not let us

Even past the ropes #

# Are we ever going to

Get to shred? #

# I don't know #

Oh, no.

# This morning #

# We thought we were going to

Ride powder #

Powder.

# Nah, fool, we're just POWs #

# Locked up #

[CHEERING]

Dude.

What, dude?

[INDISTINCT]

- Let's make a run for it.

- Yeah?

[LAUGHING]

[CHEERING]

That's for you.

All you guys.

[CHEERING]

[INDISTINCT]

TRAVIS:
If we can't ride here,

at least these kids can keep riding here.

This way we leave

a little piece of us with them.

Oh! I can't believe this.

That's crazy,

that snowboarding is alive there.

KIDS:
Goodbye!

TRAVIS:
It's so painful.

I spent, like, two years

planning this trip.

We got completely shut down.

[MUSIC]

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

PROFESSOR:

When things don't come together,

I'm so compelled to figure out

how it does work.

I dig deeper to find the truth.

[BIRDS CAWING]

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
Alaska, it's the place

where it might seem like it's...

you at odds with the physical terrain.

But Alaska is really just the backdrop

for you against yourself.

It's as far as you want to take it.

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
It's definitely the driest

we've ever seen it out here.

I don't think I've ever seen

this much rock in Alaska

in the wintertime before, ever.

One of the least amounts of

snowfall in 100 years

in Alaskan history, so that's kind

of what we're looking at.

- Holy sh*t.

- Holy sh*t!

Some facets on top of that crust.

On top of this, ring crust.

It's definitely scary.

For the next storm to come in,

we want it to come in

warm and wet,

rip it out and then snow like,

you know, quite a bit

on top of that. Would be

best case scenario, in a dream world.

Yeah.

I'd like to live in a dream world.

Got to tiptoe, unfortunately.

A little more scary when you

got to tiptoe instead of charge.

MARK:
On the road from Japan

straight into Russia,

came straight up here and, you know,

just kinda...

We're just...

Just battling the whole time,

man, and I just...

I got to get out of this.

[SIGHING] I can't keep battling.

I don't know. Big mountains have always

scared me and I have always been able to...

deal with that fear and just...

I don't know, there's something about

the snow pack, the low tide and...

Just something doesn't feel right, so,

I got to listen to my gut instinct.

Amen.

- What a whirlwind.

- Go get it.

- Yeah, thanks.

- Buddy.

Love you, bud.

Hate to bail, but I got to.

[MOTOR IDLING]

TRAVIS:
One half of me is disappointed

that a partner of mine

can't meet me where I'm at.

And then the other side of me

is pure compassion,

'cause I know that it's

what I'm pushing towards.

[PEOPLE CHATTING, INDISTINCT]

Going over some of the details

of So Far Gone right now.

Now if the conditions were good you can

knock that stuff out pretty quick.

TRAVIS:
Just take a look at these photos

from our scout flight a couple of days ago.

Yeah, see, if you look at

photos from last year.

You know, all this is, like,

rideable, filled in, like...

It takes a season's worth of snow for

So Far Gone, I don't think that's happening.

You know, we kinda got a long game

with the plan and this area

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