In May, Donna Carpenter addressed the employees of Burton. Carpenter had a tracheotomy in mid-April and was moved to the rehabilitation center in Boston on April 22, still mostly paralyzed and being fed through a tube. The effects of Miller Fisher syndrome slowly faded after a couple of months.
Some of the more meaningful ones are kept safe in a large Ziploc bag. For now, they are in stacks at home, several feet high. He plans to keep them, maybe even frame a few. “I wish we would have dated them or stamped them or something. “I’m so glad I did these on paper, and so glad I saved them,” Carpenter said. Many memories of writing the notes are lost in a fog of never-ending days, filled with sleep, anxiety, discomfort and medications. Really, my day starts when you get here.” “How is it I feel 10 times stronger when you guys are here?”
He was driven by ambulance to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Tests ruled out a stroke, a heart attack or a brain injury. When it had not diminished the next morning, and he was slurring words, he went to the hospital. Open in Vail, one of the year’s major snowboarding competitions, and even snowboarded with friends.īack home in Vermont a few days later, during a workout, he experienced double vision. Three weeks after a knee replacement surgery, Carpenter attended the Burton U.S. He’s done everything for snowboarding, keeping it core and cool, but also growing it to huge levels.”įew people outside Carpenter’s immediate family knew the details or depths of his ordeal. “He created the best snowboard company in the world when snowboarding wasn’t even a thing. “Jake is a pioneer of snowboarding,” McMorris said. White, along with other top athletes like the Olympians Mark McMorris and Kelly Clark and the former snowboard champion Kevin Pearce, was part of a procession of guests who called on Carpenter in the hospital. Inspired in the 1970s by a sporting goods item called the Snurfer, a single ski with a rope attached to the tip, Carpenter spent years tinkering with snowboard shapes, materials and bindings, building an equipment and clothing company in Vermont that still leads the industry.īurton tightropes that precarious divide between mainstream acceptance and outsider cachet, managing to have both without sacrificing one for the other. 1.Ĭarpenter - most know him as Jake Burton - is sort of a godfather of snowboarding and the youth movement toward action sports. She has had several leading roles with Burton over the years, currently as president, and will become chief executive on Feb. He is working again at Burton’s single-story headquarters in Burlington, Vt., about a 45-minute drive from home, where he has a corner office with no desk, an enormous coffee table surrounded by three couches and plenty of note cards.Ĭarpenter is Burton’s founder, chairman and, along with Donna Carpenter, his wife of nearly 33 years, its co-owner. Once a tireless swimmer, he struggles to go two laps. Before the illness, he could do 40 push-ups now he works to do one.
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He is improving, and expects a full recovery, but it is not complete. He is largely recovered from the nervous disorder, a type of Guillain-Barré syndrome that often causes temporary but complete paralysis over weeks or months before reversing, in slow motion and not always completely, over months or years.Ĭarpenter is walking, and even snowboarding a little, but he still struggles with balance and strength. And I did not see light at the end of the tunnel.” When all that ceases to exist, it’s not life anymore. “It’s about having friends and experiences and living. “Life is not about having a pulse,” Carpenter said.
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