Last Thursday we lost the sport’s most influential rider – founder of Burton Snowboards, Jake Burton Carpenter. This was a heavy episode to put together, as it all so fresh and the people close to him so profoundly affected. We talked with Chris Karol, the sport’s first World Champion, Steve Hayes, arguably Burton’s first prodigy rider, Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Powers and ushered the sport into the mainstream and two former Burton employees, Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips who run a business toget
