Luke Allen, aka Ocho, aka DJ Och, aka Coacho, is the head honcho when it comes to the ski side of things here at Windells. Ocho has been head ski coach for the last 2 years so if you’ve been around camp, you might have seen him. You also might know Ocho if you’ve been skiing anywhere on the west coast in the last decade. He’s a man-about-town, er….moutain. When he’s not coaching kids in Colorado or hucking himself on the water ramps in Park City, he’s slaying pow laps and working on expanding the ski company he just started. Yeah, Ocho’s one busy guy, but he was nice enough to take a break and answer a few questions for me this afternoon so listen up:

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It’s the last Windells ski session of the summer and we finally get to see the Stept Productions crew! Fresh off the release of the trailer for their new movie, The Eighty Six, Stept is ready to get into some much needed end-of-summer shredding. Charlie Owens, Cam Riley, Joey Ciprari, Maks Gorham, Nick Martini and filmer Isaac Sokol will be ripping around the Windells lane all week so if you’re around, keep an eye out for these guys! They’ll be the ones hot-lapping the jumps and slaying the rail line.

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Coach John Kutcher, dropping hammers

It’s hard to believe but Session 5 just ended, it’s almost August and we’re STILL skiing up here at Windells! With nothing but sunny weather and temperatures in the 80s, campers are perfecting their backflips and their goggle tans. It doesn’t get much better than that.

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Matt Walker, aka Dubs, aka Shane White, is no stranger to Mt. Hood and Windells in the summertime and fortunately for us, he just arrived at camp last week to begin his summer of ski coaching. Mr. Walker was nice enough to take time out of his already packed schedule to answer a few questions.

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Session 4 has commenced and the boys from Surface Skis have taken over. The Takeover crew at Windells is the biggest group of skiers so far with the likes Banks Gilberti, Khai Krepela, Ian Wade, Jason Arens, Jeff Kiesel, Scott Damon, Chase Morhman, Dane Ulsifer, Hayden Price, Brody Leven, Eliel Hindert and Landis Tanaka absolutely destroying everything in the park.

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