Endless Winter for Never Summer

One of the great ironies about Denver-based, family-owned snowboard manufacturing company Never Summer is that at least one of its founders started out wanting to carve surf more than he wanted to carve powder.

 â€œWe used to go out to California to visit our cousins who lived in Bakersfield, and I always wanted to be a surfer,” says Tracey Canaday, a co-founder and co-owner of Never Summer along with his brother Tim Canaday; Tim’s father-in-law, Nick ­Giancamilli; and Giancamilli’s wife, Ann Sullivan. “So when I got a chance to try snowboarding, I thought it was the closest thing to surfing. I was hooked, and I got Tim into snowboarding the following weekend.”

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