Year Round Action Sports Camp
The new Best of Girls Ski is live! Watch X Games athletes Anna Segal, Keri Herman, Ashley Battersby, as well as Windells Coach, Erica Durtschi, tear up the Windells Private Park with some stand out campers. Register for Girls Camp and learn more in one just session than you could in a whole season on your own!
Danger Dave, our Head Snowboard Coach, has been stacking frequent flyer miles and riding days this season. Hitting the open road every chance he gets, Danger has taken the Windells Academy students on a whole bunch of adventures this year. Now that he has landed back in Oregon for the summer, we wanted to check in with him and see for ourselves what he has been doing! We are so excited to have Danger back running the show and providing a fun, progressive summer of riding for all of our campers. Now let’s check out those grams!
Photo Ben Krause, Cam Snyder. Words by Ethan Stone
“The seventh annual West Coast Session wrapped up last week in Mt. Hood, Oregon. Over 60 talented young skiers, photographers and filmers gathered here for an unconventional spring training camp and end-of-season celebration hosted by Timberline Ski Area and Windells Camp, and sponsored by Buff, INI Cooperative, Camtrol, Ion, Auviq, Amplid and Hillcrest Sports.
This year’s attending athletes included: 2013 X Games Slopestyle gold medalists Nick Goepper and McRae Williams; the world’s only double-corking female skier Lisa Zimmermann; international competitors in slopestyle and halfpipe including Alex Beaulieau-Marchand, Noah Morrison, Taylor Seaton and Jamie Crane-Mauzy; the Traveling Circus duo of Andy Parry and Will Wesson; and other well-known athletes including Karl Fostvedt, Dale Talkington, Tim McChesney, Niklas Eriksson, Nicky Keefer, and many more.
In all, 48 skiers were split among six film teams for the Camtrol/Ion Session Showdown Video Contest (contest entries will be released online later this month), while six invited photographers competed in the Photo Contest presented by Buff.
This was also the first year that a strong group of female freeskiers took part in the Session. Lisa Zimmermann, Jamie Crane-Mauzy, Maude Raymond, Philo Bair and Kristie Beavert all capably represented the women’s side of the sport in the video contest.
WCS7 featured six days of skiing and the skiing lifestyle, including two sunset shoots on our private 80-foot kicker at Timberline, an epic backcountry booter session during the inaugural Tommy Ellingson Backcountry Invitational, and lots of skating at Windells Camp.”
IT’S FINISHED!! That’s right, B.O.B. (the building out back) is officially complete. After an amazingly fast turn around, Scott Everly’s crew has rebuilt our indoor skatepark to be accessible for all ability levels. We can’t wait for everyone to see it! Just 21 more days until summer camp begins, so sign up now and come skate with us this summer!
Girls! Girls! Girls! The new Best of Snowboard Girls edit is up and it’s badder than Rihanna. Snowboard camp can be a boy’s club, but Windells staff and invited guests are holding it down and better than ever. Marie-France Roy, Mary Rand, Gretchen Bleiler, Arielle Gold, Steph Feld, Megan Ginter, Danyale Patterson and Kelly Underwood are a few of the girls making the guys in the park do a double take.
Windells Camp is the best place to be a girl! The biggest female athletes are stopping through Windells all the time. Girls only cabins, skate clinics and activities give the girls just enough time away from the dudes. Register for Windells Camp to ride with the best of ‘em!
Check out the newest batch of girls summer snowboard highlights!
Superpark 17 hit Mt. Bachelor again this year, bringing 400 riders and some of the best shaped features on the planet. With a week of high intensity snowboarding, there was sure to be equally intense video recaps. Without further delay, get your mind blown and watch the video recaps from Superpark 17. Make sure to visit Windells this summer to ride with all your favorite Superpark athletes!
Rider: Brendon Rego Photo: T-Bird
Thanks to the ridiculous amount of Superpark 17 coverage, we have 4 days worth of recap videos to get through. So take a seat and start watching!
Check out all the videos right here…
In case you missed the news, we are adding a brand new indoor street course to the Windells campus! Yup, you heard it right. B.O.B. (the building out back) is getting a makeover just in time for Summer 2013. Scott Everly and his crew of builders have been working every single day to bring you guys an incredible park. Thanks to the insanely fast work of these seasoned veterans, we are bringing you a sneak peak of the rebuild. Stay tuned for more photo leaks as we get closer to opening day of the new park!
CONTEST ALERT:
Comment on this blog and let us know why you should be one of the first campers to skate the new park. One lucky winner will receive $150 off Session 1 Skateboard Camp. Submit your entry by Monday May 13th for a chance to win.
Register for camp today and come skate the new park! Spaces are limited –> Sign up here.
The much anticipated Team Takeover for Snowboard Session 3 is officially official! Burton is taking the reins June 26th to July 3. Burton has had a huge presence at Windells for a long time. The Burton Super Trooper Challenge is a session favorite and blindfolded makeovers during Burton Girls Night are hilarious, without fail.
Zak Hale and Ethan Deiss are in for the Takeover, and more athletes are lining up. Check back to the visiting pros page as updates to Session 3 unfold. Spots in this session are going fast and they’ll be gone soon!
There is a lot going on this month at Windells; The West Coast Session, the B.O.B. rebuild, and of course the 30 day countdown to summer camp! With so many smartphones out there, you can believe that the Instagram feed has been blowing up with pictures from recent Windells visits. We know they say that a photo is worth a thousand words, but nothing is comparable to coming and seeing Windells for yourself. Get a preview of Windells through some of our friends this week as we search through the #Windells feed. Make sure to follow us on Instagram @windellscamp and visit us this summer to snap your own photos!
@camtrolWASSUP!! MT.HOOD. #camtrol#summitmedialabs#ion#windells
@shaynepossCinco da Maythod at the best skatepark ever. @garelos photo cred. #windells #cincodamaythod #pitstop #superparkbound #hotasfck @dakinenews @smithoptics @thumprint_ @eldulche
The skiing never stops on Mt. Hood. Each summer, Windells coaches and guest pros push the limits of the current state of freeskiing. The best athletes from around the world flock to Windells to ski with campers, train, film, skate and enjoy another sunny and sick summer on Hood!
The new “Best of Ski” highlights our favorite moments from the heavy hitters of Summer 2012: Tom Wallisch, Steve Stepp, Nick Goepper, Alex Schlopy, Pat Goddnough, Torin Yater-Wallace, Nicky Keefer, Will Berman, Collin Collins, Banks Gilberti, ABM, Jack Borland, Bobby Brown, Reed Lewis, Anna Segal, Tosh Peters, Andy Parry, Tim McChesney, Ben Moxham, Sammy Carlson, Luke Perin, Karl Fostvedt and many more. Check it out and get stoked for the months to come!
