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In this March 8, 2002, file photo,
Jake Burton Carpenter, owner
of Burton Snowboards, shows
an early model, right, and one
of the newer snowboards, left,
in his office in Burlington, Vt.
Associated Press
Snowboarding

visionary

Jake Burton

Carpenter dies

at 65

By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
Whether you had a gold
medal hanging from your
neck, were just learning
how to stand on a snow-
board, or were one of
those flustered skiers won-
dering where all the kids
in the baggy pants were
coming from, you knew
the name "Burton."
Jake Burton Carpenter, the
man who changed the
game on the mountain by
fulfilling a grand vision of
what a snowboard could Clippers edge Celtics in OT
be, died Wednesday night
of complications stemming
from a relapse of testicular with Leonard and George
cancer. He was 65.
Carpenter was not the in-
ventor of the snowboard, Boston Celtics guard Kemba Walker, center, shoots as Los
but 12 years after Sherman Angeles Clippers forward Paul George, left, and center Ivica
Poppen tied together a pair
of skis with a rope to cre- Zubac defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game
ate what was then called Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Los Angeles.
a "Snurfer," the 23-year-old Associated Press
entrepreneur, then known
only as Jake Burton, quit his Page 20
job in Manhattan, moved
back to Vermont and went
about dreaming of how far
a snowboard might take
him.
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