Career
In the 1980s, Rippey became a professional snowboarder and accepted a sponosrship with Burton Snowboards. He was known for his extreme mountain freestyle snowboarding, which entailed boarding the largest mountains in the world and reaching the highest speeds and airs possible. Rippey made a name for himself in the 1990s by front and backflipping off of large cliffs in notable backcountry spots.
He is also the first person to land a backflip on a snowmobile.
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