:13:01
He went about it a different way.
:13:04
I wanted to be able
to surf the board.
:13:06
Well, surfing in those days
was all about nose riding.
:13:10
So, I didn't think of
having a big kick on the front.
:13:13
I just wanted to be able to hang five
and ride across the hill.
:13:16
Looking back, it's kind of amazing
I didn't just grab a waterski out of our garage...
:13:19
and go ride it down the snow.
:13:21
'Cause it would have saved
many years of development for me.
:13:25
It was a process of developing
product that couldstop
and turn right and turn left.
:13:30
Definitely a lot of creativity
and a lot of failure.
:13:42
## [Ends ]
:13:49
[Narrator]
By the end of the 70's,
the pioneers had firmly laid down the roots.
:13:52
But snowboarding's future
and its survival remained uncertain.
:13:58
[ Farmer]
People didn't even know what it was.
There was no instructors, no lessons.
:14:02
There was no set way to do it.
There was no book.
:14:05
[ Bafroot ]
There was so much variation
in where it was going.
:14:09
'Cause snowboarding
wasn't really a sport yet.
It was only a few of us doing it.
:14:12
Ah! Digger! Yeah!
[ People Cheering]
:14:15
[ Burton ]
It was a pretty tight fraternity,
and we were all passionate about the sport.
:14:18
But there wasn't this feeling of sort of,
hey, we're building something.
:14:22
We were just riding and, unknow in gly,
progressing the sport at an incredible rate.
:14:42
This is a map
ofthe Chugach Range here.
:14:44
The Chugach is just one of
many, many mountain ranges in Alaska.
:14:47
Whatever you want's out there.
If you want cornices, they're out there.
If you want wind lips, it's out there.
:14:51
And the whole thing is,
just make sure
you find the one that you want.
:14:57
Back in the early days,
when everything was untouched,