Easy Rider
December, 2004
The closest Jake Burton Carpenter has come to dying was not on a mountain. Nearly 30 years ago, when he was making snowboard prototypes, a couple of the new contraptions rocketed out of his pin router and right through a wall. "Man, it was scary," he laughs. "I was a total loser in shop class." Carpenter has come a long way since the days when he'd load up his station wagon with boards to hawk at trade shows and ski resorts. (Pictured at left is an early Burton board.) Snowbo...
