![]() He would be placed on a feeding tube and would need a tracheotomy to breathe. The day after, you won’t be able to breath,’” Jake recalled. The next day, you won’t be able open your eyes. Then they told me, ‘This isn’t something we can handle: you need to go to Dartmouth Hitchcock.’ When I got to Dartmouth, I heard: ‘Tomorrow you won’t be able to swallow. The next day, Jake went to Copley Hospital in Morrisville. “I was in the pool when I began seeing double,” he said.“I thought he’d just been partying too much and blew it off at first,” Donna remembered. ![]() A strong surfer and a captain of his college swim team at New York University, he regularly swims intervals at The Swimming Hole. The next week, Jake was back in Stowe and swimming. Open in Vail and snuck in turns with his son George, pro rider Kevin Pearce and his surgeon and friend Bryan Huber. Last year I had a hard time keeping up with Donna.” In January 2015, Jake had a full knee replacement. “I used to be able to do really short, quick turns-that was my thing. We’ve done a few runs on buttery-soft snow, Jake pulling ahead. “The last 18 months have been pure hell,” said Donna on the chairlift ride up. ![]() This all seems slightly miraculous on any number of levels-not the least of which is that Jake Burton Carpenter is still alive. They live in a relatively modest farmhouse in Moscow, Vt., albeit a farmhouse with a basement you can skateboard in. It celebrates its 40th year this year and is about to come out with the Step-On binding, a breakthrough product it’s been developing for four years.Donna and Jake are healthy and, at 53 and 62, remarkably fit. The company is still headquartered in Burlington. They own sub-brands, Anon, Red, Channel Islands surfboards and more. It is a global company now with a 35%share of the snowboard market, five offices around the world, and retail outlets from Haight-Ashbury to Soho. Donna is the CEO of Burton, (the “CE-Ho” Jake calls her). Thirty-five years later, they are married with three kids. He was 28 and making snowboards in a barn. Jake Burton Carpenter shakes his head and steps out of the new Step-On prototype bindings.“No way, you picked me up,” he said. “So, I’m this cool girl from New York City and wanted nothing to do with him,” said Donna, with a laugh. She stretches out his name, ‘Jaake,’ the way actor Jeff Bridges in the film, “The Big Lebowski,” said “I’m the Duude.” That was his pick-up line,” said Donna Carpenter as she unstraps from her board. Snowboarding’s most famous couple is at the base of Stowe Mountain Resort, razzing each other about who picked up whom on New Year’s Eve, 1982, at the Mill in Londonderry. Tuesday in early January, there’s a slight drizzle. Jake Burton Carpenter (center in blue) enjoyed riding and sharing his passion with friends and family from the very beginning to the very end. I will be back, but regardless, everything is in good hands which is an amazing feeling when entering this zone of uncertainty.”īelow is a profile from 2017 based on interviews with Jake and his wife Donna on the 40th anniversary of Burton Snowboards. ![]() I feel the same way about my company, my friends and our sport. As much as I dread what is facing me, it’s easier to deal with when you know that you have a family that will carry on. ![]() The odds are in my favor, but it is going to be a struggle for sure. A bit of it hung out in my lymph nodes and got back into business. It’s the same tumor as the first time around. 9, Jake sent the following email to his employees: “You will not believe this, but my cancer has come back. Jake Burton Carpenter died Wednesday, Nov. Vermont snowboard legend birthed a passion that lives on ![]()
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