Carpenter: Burton snowboard design was finalized on Mount Washington in June 1978
Jake Burton Carpenter · Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter · Nov 21, 2019 · at 10:54
Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards, describes the moment he settled on the material and construction design for his first commercial snowboards.
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“I'm hiking up there, and Hillman's Highway was the trail, and I had the board, or I was testing the final test, and it was horizontally laminated rock maple, very much like a skateboard, but thinner and more flexible. And I rode down, you know, just hiking up a little bit and riding. I was like, ok, this is it.”
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