World’s first patented snowboard born in Chicago suburbs

- He never got to attempt a Double McTwist 1260 to finish a halfpipe, but Don Burgeson of Glen Ellyn used to get stoked riding his snowboard long before Gold Medal snowboarding icon Shaun White was born. The word snowboard didn’t even exist when Burgeson first hopped on his. “We used to call it a bunker,“ Burgeson says, toting the 12-pound, oak “first snowboard“ invented by his father and two other relatives more than 70 years ago. “I don’t know if that’s Swedish