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In a photo provided by Burton, a fan of Jake Burton Carpenter waves one of dozens of “Ride On Jake” flags that dotted the course in Vail, Colo., Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Skiers and snowboarders alike gathered over the weekend to celebrate Carpenter, who died November 2019 of testicular cancer. It was Carpenter who envisioned what snowboarding could be back in the 1980s and started producing snowboards to help his vision become reality. (Dean Blotto Gray/Burton via AP)

Ride with Jake: Burton impact felt over bittersweet weekend

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

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. Carpenter, the innovator who brought the snowboard to the masses and helped turn the sport into a billion-dollar business, has died after a recurring bout with cancer. He was 65.Officials from the company he founded, Burton Snowboards, told The Associated Press of his death Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett, File) **FILE**

Snowboarding visionary Jake Burton Carpenter dies at 65

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Cancer patient gets wish: Riding with Jake Burton

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov reacts after competing in the men's snowboard halfpipe final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Podladtchikov won the gold medal. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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