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.
âWe used to go out to California to visit our cousins who lived in Bakersfield, and I always wanted to be a surfer,â says Tracey Canaday, a co-founder and co-owner of Never Summer along with his brother Tim Canaday; Timâs father-in-law, Nick ÂGiancamilli; and Giancamilliâs wife, Ann Sullivan. âSo 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.â