For someone who could be credited for growing an industry from a little-known, backwoods idea, into a winter Olympic discipline, the guy was pretty low-key. I had the opportunity to meet Jake Burton Carpenter in 2009 and 2010, when I was deeply involved in the snow-sports industry. Like many my age, I started snowboarding as…
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We sat up under our own power. We were crawling. We began to walk. We tentatively began to move in an almost graceful, forward momentum, when we suddenly found ourselves staring down an obstacle course made mostly by our own hands. Now what? Can someone please pass me a road map? Being a small, ethical…
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Humans take a lot of things for granted on a daily basis, and as snowboarders and skiers, we can be a pretty entitled bunch of jerks. We complain when Mother Nature fails to provide the frozen substrate required for our amusement, and belly-ache when the resorts are running the snow guns to compensate. The weather…
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