Burton snowboards were first invented by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977 in Burlington, Vermont, when he built a snowboard based on the Snurfer, a snow surfer invented in 1965. The first Burton ...

Burton snowboards were first invented by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977 in Burlington, Vermont, when he built a snowboard based on the Snurfer, a snow surfer invented in 1965. The first Burton ...

Burton Snowboards, which is outfitting the U.S. snowboard team for the fourth consecutive Olympic Winter Games, took inspiration from the American space program for its 2018 competition uniforms ...

Jake Burton Carpenter, a self-described punk who became the multimillionaire owner of Burton Snowboards, a company he founded in a Vermont barn in 1977 and that has been credited with transforming ...

Jake Burton’s perfectionism shows in every aspect of the Vermont production facility, where just 1% to 2% of the company’s snowboards are made.

But it wasn’t always so. With the addition of snowboarding to the Olympics in the 1990s, Burton and U.S. Ski & Snowboard found themselves on different sides philosophically, and in court.

Burton snowboard bindings come in a variety of sizes and styles for riders of all ages and abilities. If you’re not sure where to start, the Burton Mission Re:Flex Snowboard Bindings are a great ...

Jake Burton Carpenter was the founder of the iconic Burton Snowboards company. And as Vermont Public Radio's Liam Elder-Connors reports, he helped open up the ski slopes to a whole new crowd.

Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards and a snowboarding trailblazer, is dead at the age of 65-years-old. The sport we know as snowboarding today simply wouldn’t exist without ...

Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of the snowboard company that bears his name and a pioneer of the sport, died Wednesday night after a recurring battle with cancer. He was 65.

Burton snowboard bindings come in a variety of sizes and styles for riders of all ages and abilities. If you’re not sure where to start, the Burton Mission Re:Flex Snowboard Bindings are a great ...

Burton Citizen Women’s Snowboard Bindings: available at Amazon Our take: These affordable bindings are designed for women but work well for anyone with a shoe size smaller than men’s 6.