Burton: Early resort snowboard bans were driven by liability and lawsuit paranoia
Jake Burton Carpenter · Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter · Nov 21, 2019 · at 18:42
Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards, explains why ski resorts initially banned snowboards before Stratton Mountain opened access.
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“Well, it was there was actually a famous case at Stratton, which was a resort, one of the first resorts to let us on, where this guy had- It's in southern Vermont, and this guy had broken his leg because of some sign or something, skiing, and he sued the mountain, and I think he tried to get Half a million, and he got a million dollars. So there was this liability. There's this just paranoia about getting sued.”
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