Since Day One
In the mid-1970s Jake Burton Carpenter quit his New York City suit-and-tie job to follow a gut feeling that sliding on snow could become a sport. He moved to Londonderry, Vermont, and began building boards by hand. In 1977 Jake made Burton Snowboards an official company. After almost four years in Londonderry he moved to a farm in nearby Manchester, where his operations slowly grew. The next year he met his future wife, Donna, who quickly became an integral part of building Burton.
