Riding High (Never Summer may have caught the perfect wave in the snow sports industry) ~ a Westword story

Tim Canaday keeps an old wooden snowboard in his office at the Never Summer Industries factory as a reminder. The board, fit for a history museum, has rubber straps for bindings and metal fins bolted to the tail and midsection, to keep it steady in deep powder. He constructed the board in 1983 for his tenth-grade wood shop class at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, and he’s been thinking about how to build better and better boards ever since.

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