Bouton

Dorset’s Doug Bouton was an early Burton employee and winner of the overall honors at the inaugural 1982 Snow Surfing Championships in Woodstock. He then became a mystery within the snowboarding world. He sadly passed away in 2018. Mark Heingartner said that Bouton “was the man early on. He was the best rider in the country. He had a super natural style, kind of like a skateboard style...he got down the hill, for a couple of years there, quicker and faster and better than anyone else.”
Find out more in the book Snowboarding in Southern Vermont available at www.snowboardinginsouthernvermont.com


Photo credit: Richard Howard and Burton Corporation