Some of the male staff members have been hearing about how good yoga is as a compliment to skiing and snowboarding and they decided to give it a try yesterday afternoon…

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Every Session, Pow Gloves puts on what is considered to be one of the funniest events at Windells. It’s a contest on the trampoline in BOB, but it’s not your average flip comp…

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This week has been bright, sunny and oh-so hot, so everyone at camp was really excited when Burton arrived with an idea to cool things down. Three tricycles, a couple buckets full off water balloons and piles of Burton gear to give away…

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Marius Otterstad congratulating the winners of Rome's Knockout Game, Evan "Bounce" Langston and John Roy.

The Rome team hung out at camp tonight and got busy on the basketball court with a big game out Knock Out. Campers were excited and got in a huge line that wrapped around cabin 12 so they could shoot hoops with the pro riders…

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First Rook gets to create a sandwich with any fillings he chooses.

Sandwich Club has taken over the camp counselors. Don’t ask about Sandwich Club. Jake Black is the mafia-style leader of the Club and he will smash your sandwich if you aren’t playing this gentleman’s game correctly. Rook made a big mistake and so he was subjected to the wrath of Jake in the form of the double axe handle sandwich smash…

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Filmer Tyler Malay, Trevor Jacob and Windells intern Ben Butz getting footage and hanging out.

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Once a session campers are given the opportunity to go whitewater rafting if they want to. For the day, campers, counselors and sometimes coaches get to hit rapids instead of jumps on the Deschutes River. Coach Reed snapped these photos from Session 2.

Last minute salting and shaping before the feature opened.

The Nike 6.0 team put a lot of self-described, “man hours” into their Dream Feature this past session. After the cat drivers had pushed the snow in place, it was the job of Trevor, Ross, Broc, Dylan and Mark to hand shape most of the feature. Their excitement for building something like this paid off and the day the Dream Featured opened, everyone was more than stoked on how fun it was to ride.  Read the rest of this entry »

So, during Session 5 at Windells, Snowboarder Mag is partnering with Windells to put on what promises to be one of the most exciting and most fun competitions this season: America’s Next Top Pro Model. We’ve just gotten a list of some of the riders that will be attending and it looks like America’s Next Top Pro Model is going to be ridiculous. Here’s the confirmed riders so far:

Pat Moore
Eddie Wall
Peter Line
Danny Kass
Louie Vito
Bryan Fox
Austin Smith
Jon Kooley
Eero Ettela
Anti Autti
Scotty Lago
Lucas Magoon
MFM
Gabe Taylor
Scotty Arnold
Pat McCarthy
Steve Fisher
TJ Schneider

This will be an event to check out. Stay tuned for more updates about America’s Next Top Pro Model.

Coach Reed brought marshmellows, a bungee cord and shoelaces to campus recently for Spacecraft’s Most Extreme Challenge. The object of the game: stretch the bungee cord far enough to eat three marshmellows hanging from the ceiling in the least amount of time. Do it the fastest and win tons of Spacecraft gear. Sound easy? Click below to check out the rest of the photos and video.

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