When I spoke with big mountain snowboarder Travis Rice in May, he told me that for companies to have any credit in the action sports landscape, they must support the substructure of the lifestyle.

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Spanning more than 11, 000 hectares on the southern slopes of Ailao Mountain, the Hani Rice Terraces (haniterrace.com) in Yuanyang County are the work of the Hani minority.

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