Year Round Action Sports Camp
There’s only a couple Take me back Tuesdays left before summer starts. Not only does that mean that we’re close to summer laps, skating in the Concrete Jungle, and hanging out with pro snowboarders, skiers, and skateboarders as they takeover camp, but it also means that we’re closer to another really exciting time of year–when new videos come out! [Read more...]
Our good friend, Dylan Thompson just checked in from the road and sent over a bunch of cool photos from his recent adventures. He’s been all over the place: snowboarding in Japan, surfing in California, supercross in Utah (watching, of course!), all the while logging clips for his movie part this year and having fun shredding at home at Park City. Here’s the low down from the man himself.
It was a rough year for snow in Utah. Normally we spend a solid month or two filming around Salt Lake City and in the mountains. This year, the only chance to film was to go somewhere on a trip. When we were at home in Salt Lake, we spent a lot of time shredding park at Park City. Here is a front board on the stair set Cole Taylor shot with his iPhone.
p: @specicus
Zombie dodgeball facepaint can be as creative as you’d like. If you prefer to look like a classic movie zombie, Windells counselors can paint your face that way. If you prefer to channel Captain Jack Sparrow and other famous moustachioed individuals, that’s just as awesome, too. Above, camper @spencicus shows off his pirate-style stache.
And with that awesome example of what Windells is @spencicus, we bring you this week’s collection of instagrams, tagged #Windells. This is Windells through your eyes. To join in and maybe get your instagrams on the blog, tag your photos #Windells2012 and #funnestplaceonearth
It is officially less than a month before Session 1 starts! We’re crossing out days on our calendar and can not wait for the vans of campers to arrive on June 6th! Now that camp is so close, we can’t stop thinking about all of the awesome things that happened at camp last year and how this summer will be even more fun! For this week’s Take me Back Tuesday, we remember when the whole Capita Team came to camp to tell everyone about their 2011 team movie, “Defenders of Awesome”. [Read more...]
There’s only a month until camp starts and all over the country, members of the Windells famiily are getting ready to make their way back to camp. There are lots of staffers that have spent a few years at Windells, and know exactly the items you need to bring to make sure you have the most fun, both on and off the glacier. As our awesome camp crew gets ready to go to Hood, we thought we would ask them to let us in on an important item they are bringing to camp this year, to ensure the most excellent time snowboarding, skiing, skating, and bmxing. Here are their answers, you may find a couple helpful additions to pack in your luggage, too!
Marsha Hovey – Marketing, Media and Activities Manager
My stretching game. Limber up and flex it out because the funnest place on earth definitely knows how to put your muscles to the test on and off hill.
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So, we’ve been throwing around the phrase “Team Takeover Sessions” a lot on the blog recently, and if you haven’t been to camp the last few summers since we started inviting pro riders to take over sessions, you may not be familiar with exactly what this means. Plus, Team Takeover is the brand spanking new title for these sessions for 2012.
So, we’ll start at the beginning. What is a Team Takeover Session? Well, a Team Takeover Session (you’re going to read this phrase a lot) happens every session at snowboard and ski camp during the summer. A group of pro snowboarders takes over snowboard camp for the week, while a group of pro skiers takes over ski camp. The riders arrive the same day as the campers and come to orientation to introduce themselves. Starting day 1 on hill, the fun really begins! [Read more...]
p: @classic Austin
It’s the first week of May and that means we’re a month away from Session 1 2012! All of your photos on instagram are adding fuel to our fire of excitement as we get ready for camp! Fire of excitement, we swear that’s a thing. Anyway, here are a few of our favorite recent instagram photos we found. Don’t forget to tag #Windells2011 and #funnestplaceonEarth and follow us @WindellsCamp. [Read more...]
There’s pretty much one thing we like about warmer temperatures, green grass, and the sight of more and more people breaking out shorts and sandals with each passing day–summer is on its way. Right now we are only month until we are riding up the Palmer lift to check out what the Diggers have built for the first session and piling into vans to head out to skateparks all over the Northwest. We’re more than a little excited. While outside many windows spring has sprung, we’re daydreaming about the quarterpipe from Session 6 last summer. [Read more...]
Curtis and Arbor teammate, Nick Visconti, gave out an Arbor snowboard to the camper that helped clean up campus by picking up the most trash. Shredding green!
Curtis Woodman hosted a session at Windells for the first time last year and it was only a matter of days before he was a full-fledged member of the Windells family. This backcountry-powder-riding-maniac navigated the summer snow with ease, bringing his unique snowboarding style to whatever he rode, whether he was throwing down on the big jump, or finding unique transitions all over the park.
Curtis took over camp last summer Session 4 and he’s coming back in 2012 for The Reunion: all the bears are back for the same session and the same crew as last year. For his Team Takover Session, Curtis will be joined by Stevie Bell, Nick Visconti, and Jason Robinson, for one of the most energy-packed and exciting weeks of camp all summer. These four guys have the energy of 100 campers each–they never slow down! They ride all day, then play awesome games of bump, dodgeball, and SKATE all night. We can’t wait for Curtis to come back this summer, so we thought we would get a sneak peak into some of his favorite parts about Session 4 last year. Check it out and if you want to come to The Reunion, too, there’s still time to register! [Read more...]
Dylan Dragotta is one of our favorite people out there. Dylan, who’s been really busy this year filming for Keep the Change’s new movie, hails from the great state of New Hampshire and first came to Windells a few years ago as an adult camper, when he won a session in a snowboard contest in Vermont. Since then, he has come to Mount Hood every summer and began coaching at camp last year. He’s really friendly, an awesome snowboard coach, and is next level at skating. With how rad Dylan is, it’s no surprise that he’s pretty well-liked and we were excited to see him featured in High Cascade’s Guess Hood video contest on snowboardermag.com. Yeah, we’re pretty stoked that Dylan is one of our staffers. D.Dragotta is pretty dang bossy!
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