Jesse Loomis began to tire of snowboarding during the winter of 2008. He’d been riding boards for almost two decades, but as a father of three, he no longer took the same risks on the mountain that he once had as a fearless 20-year-old. The overall experience was beginning to grow stale, but his kids were approaching ages that would allow Loomis to introduce them to the sport. On a whim, he grabbed his old Burton Elite 150—his first snowboard from the late 1980s—and trudged up the hill behind his home in Vermo…