I saw the first Burton Backhill in Shaw’s general store in Vermont and knew that’s what I wanted for Christmas. I was really into skateboarding, and I started seeing snowboarding in skateboard magazines, like Thrasher. I feel super fortunate to have gotten into the sport when I did, which was at nine years old. What was the state of snowboarding in Vermont in those days?
As I got more serious about hockey, my parents would say to the coach, “He’ll play on the travel team, but you’re taking him because we go skiing every weekend.” By the time I was 12, hockey went away really fast. You don’t even really realize it’s happening. We were all serious hockey players, but pretty quickly, my brothers and I just felt the pull of snow. Get out of here.” Growing up on Cape Cod, hockey was the sport. They would say to me and my brothers, “All right kids, we’ll see you at lunch. My parents followed him, also later in life as young parents.
My grandfather fell in love with Vermont later in life. Jeremy Jones: I grew up at the highest point of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, so naturally we were mountain folk, at 200 feet above sea level. Tell us about your journey from Cape Cod to the big mountains. I skipped breakfast basically, had this early interview. Listen to the podcast on The Common Threads: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotifyĭavid Swain ( What did you have for breakfast? This is Jeremy Jones and here’s his story from a conversation with two days before the pandemic lockdown began in California. And doing it with curiosity, respect and admiration for your surroundings and the people who came before you. But as Jones shares, it all starts by taking one step, sleeping in one friend’s closet, following one passion and focusing on it with unwavering intensity. A kid who hitched rides to Jackson Hole receiving a Champion of Change Award from President Obama. Instead, he started a climate movement with Protect our Winters, created Jones Snowboards to push snowboarding innovation, and along the way starred in 50+ movies. Jones reimagined snowboarding and forever shaped how big mountains are ridden. Jeremy Jones ( didn’t set out to start a movement or change an industry.
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