{"id":2454241,"date":"2020-02-06T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tribute-to-burton-at-heart-of-team-challenge\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:23:00","slug":"tribute-to-the-late-jake-burton-carpenter-at-heart-of-dew-tours-team-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/tribute-to-the-late-jake-burton-carpenter-at-heart-of-dew-tours-team-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to the late Jake Burton Carpenter at heart of Dew Tour\u2019s team challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8444444444444\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-320487-418\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News | Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News | Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-2-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News | Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-2-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP | Summit Daily News | Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.(Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.(Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>AP | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. Sandbech led the competition with a score of 95.00.(Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-4-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News | Danny Davis competes for Team Burton in the snowboard team challenge modified superpipe on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Danny Davis competes for Team Burton in the snowboard team challenge modified superpipe on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Team-SDN-020720-1-4-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Danny Davis competes for Team Burton in the snowboard team challenge modified superpipe on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/tribute-to-burton-at-heart-of-team-challenge\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/tribute-to-burton-at-heart-of-team-challenge\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">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<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the end, Oakley won the snowboard team challenge, which also included slopestyle and streetstyle, on the strength of Norwegian star Stale Sandbech\u2019s wild line through the rail portion of the slopestyle course that was heavily affected by snow. Despite the slow, flat-light conditions, Sandbech earned a 95.00 on the abbreviated slopestyle course, which skipped out on the jumps portion because of the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The defending Dew Tour slopestyle champion looked as strong as ever executing a pretzel off an up-rail into the side-hit shark fin redirect feature at the top of the course before he concluded the rails with a speedy cab 540 off a similar up-rail. Riding for Team Burton, Gerard scored a 74.33 on the strength of a frontside cork 720 dismount off the up-bar at the bottom of the rail course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for the ski competition, Atomic won yet another Dew Tour team challenge led by New Zealand star Nico Porteous\u2019 85-point run and win in the modified superpipe. When Porteous dropped in for his second run, shortly before he executed a switch front flip on one of the transition elements above the traditional pipe, he had one thing to say. In many ways, it was the same thing so many were thinking at Copper Mountain on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOh my God,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much snow out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:aolivero@summitdaily.com\">aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/tribute-to-burton-at-heart-of-team-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Gerard competes for Team Burton in the slopestyle snowboard team challenge on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Summit Daily News Norway\u2019s Stale Sandbech competes for Team Oakley in the snowboard team challenge slopestyle on Thursday on day one of Winter Dew Tour at Copper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 16:57:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}