History

In 1975 Milovich and his "Snowboard", called "Winterstick", get a write up in the March edition of "Newsweek" and a two-page article in "Newsweek".Inspired by Malcovich Jake Burton Carpenter moves to Londonderry, Vermont and starts making Snowboards with steam bend wood and another version with fiberglass.In 1977 Mike Olsen builds his first Snowboard in a High school Woodshop. He keeps experimenting with Snowboards until he quits college in 1984 to form his corperation "Gnu". Once an article about the new snowboards was published in the magazine Powder, the intention was moved to this new freestyle movement.The first real ski technology for Snowboards was introduced by Burton and the Winterstick in 1980. Their new prototype had a P-Tex base and combined more of the ski technology into snowboards with that.