Snowboarding

SNOWBOARDING spread into BC from Calgary and Mt BAKER in the early 1980s, and the province soon became one of the sport's hotbeds. Snowboards were invented by American skateboarding fanatics in the late 1970s but pioneering BC snowboarders, such as Vancouver's Dave "Raiden" Ewens, concocted homemade boards with planks of plywood and water-ski bindings and took to the local mountains in the winter of 1983–84. The next season, Ewens, Steve Edmundson, Steve Suttie, Cory Campbell and Reggie...

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