{"id":803917,"date":"2020-02-06T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378613"},"modified":"2020-02-06T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:26:12","slug":"tribute-to-late-jake-burton-carpenter-at-heart-of-dew-tour-team-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/tribute-to-late-jake-burton-carpenter-at-heart-of-dew-tour-team-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to late Jake Burton Carpenter at heart of Dew Tour team challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge Thursday, Feb. 6, on the first day of Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
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COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2014 As this weekend\u2019s storm rolled over Copper Mountain Resort on Thursday morning, Danny Davis said on the chairlift that he was probably most excited about riding powder this week at Dew Tour.<\/p>\n

As the snowfall grew heavier a few hours later, Davis looked to the cloudy skies above the Dew Tour modified superpipe and thanked a friend who was missed at Dew Tour for the first time: Jake Burton Carpenter. The 65-year-old founder of Burton died earlier this winter after complications from a second bout of cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cJake\u2019s giving us some snow for the week, so we can ride some pow,\u201d Davis said shortly before he represented Team Burton in the team challenge competition. \u201cHe never really cared too much for the contests. He just always liked to ride, so this is a beautiful thing \u2014 lots of snow falling. We never want to wish away the snow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Dew Tour hosted its ski and snowboard team competitions, Davis led a seemingly endless brigade of snowboarders in a snake run through the Dew Tour modified superpipe course.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just was so much about community and camaraderie,\u201d Canadian star and Burton rider Mark McMorris said about Burton Carpenter. \u201cSo this is everything he would have imagined and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind Davis and McMorris were fellow Burton riders Red Gerard, Scotty James and a slew of other athletes, all kicking up powder as they passed through the pipe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a nice one to see for Jake \u2014 all plumy and cloudy, tons of riders,\u201d Davis said. \u201cSo that was really fun. A good way to kick it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments later, the fan-favorite Michigan rider Davis stylishly made a statement in the modified superpipe. Competing against the Australian star James, a Burton rider who rode for Team Oakley on Thursday, Davis helped Burton win the modified superpipe portion of the team event with a 90-point run that include a cab 900 on the quarter-pipe takeoff into the slopestyle landing heading into the traditional pipe, where he landed a soaring McTwist.<\/p>\n

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