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Scavenger Hunt Take 3: Who are we? Where are we?

Here it is. The third installment of our Employee Scavenger Hunt. Our staff is amazing. They come from all over the country to live life in Mt. Hood with Windells Camp. Once August starts to slip away, they all eventually have to go back to reality and back to their roots. As winter keeps on trucking, our employees are building parks, taking classes, teaching lessons, and just about everything you can think of to pass the time until summer comes back into our lives. This winter hibernation gives us a perfect opportunity for you guys at home, to find our staff members in their natural habitats! “Who Are We? Where Are We?” will take place once a month all over the country. Each contest will spotlight one of your favorite Windells employees at home in their stomping grounds, and it is your job to find them, snap a photo, and win some swag! Sounds fun right? Let’s see what happens when we try and find one of the many redheads occupying our campus.

Name: Marsha Hovey
Position: Marketing Crew
Hometown: Brewster, NY
Sport: Snowboarding (and a pretty serious soccer lady)
Favorite Resort: Mount Hood Meadows
Favorite thing about Windells: The unbelievable level of gnar that is alive on a daily basis.
Favorite memory from camp: Slapping on that SPF 55 for my first summer laps on Hood.

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Show Us Your Windells Stickers!

Last week we brought back one of our favorite contests, “Show Us Your Windells Stickers!” We heard from a lot of you, so thanks for taking the time to show us your sticker love. You guys have been busy, stickering just about everything in your path. Here are a few of our favorite entries:

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Take me back Tuesday: dinnertime!

Say the words “camp food” at most summer camps, and everyone runs away, shielding their tastebuds from an unfortunate onslaught of dry chicken fingers and tasteless macaroni and cheese. Not the case at Windells, where the kitchen crew creates delicious dinners every evening, cooking from scratch and using the most local ingredients possible. Since even in the wintertime, the mention of Philly Cheesesteak night can bring a nostalgic tear to a snowboard, ski, or skate coach’s eye, this Take me back Tuesday recollects dinnertime at camp. Continue reading →

Summer Camp New Year’s Resolutions

It’s the end of 2011 and looking back, it’s been a great year. Here at Windells, staff, campers, and family have taken tons of laps at Timberline during the summer, skated the Concrete Jungle all fall, and have been skating in BOB every weekend. We have gotten to meet the snowboarders, skateboarders, and skiers we look up too, have them as our coaches, take runs with them, learn new tricks from them, and get their autographs. We’ve gotten to see tons of new snow movies, gotten new gear, and lined up to take runs at our local mountains.

Now that 2012 has begun, we decided that we would set a few resolutions for the new year. Below, ten things that we will be doing in 2012 to have the funnest year ever! Continue reading →

Scavenger Hunt: Rachel Lemons at SkiDazzle Los Angeles

We have released Rachel’s location! Find her at the Windells booth at Ski Dazzle at the Los Angeles Convention Center. She is tall, blonde, and wearing a red and black Saga shirt. The first person to find her and take a photo with her, will be spotlighted on our blog, website, Facebook, and Twitter account (all those social media hot spots). Most importantly, YOU WIN STUFF!  You don’t want to miss out. So hurry up and find Rachel!

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Holiday Fix Pack Giveaway!

We have so many giveaways, and we know it can be hard to keep track of all the good deals. So to keep the trend going, we have yet another giveaway for you guys. This is one of our favorites. The Holiday Fix Pack is back! For those of you who took advantage of it last year, it’s back again for your pleasure. All you have to do is sign up and pay in full for a summer 2012 session before December 31st, and you win big! Receive $100 off your session along with a Windells swag back with amazing holiday goodies. Use it for yourself, gift it to your friends, either way, this is a win-win deal.

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Scavenger Hunt: Who Are We? Where Are We?

Our employees are amazing. They come from all over the country to live life in Mt. Hood with Windells Camp. Once August starts to slip away, they all eventually have to go back to reality and back to their roots. As winter settles in, our employees are building parks, taking classes, teaching lessons, and just about everything you can think of to pass the time until summer rolls around.

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Summer 2011 comes to an end…

Summer 2011 has come to an end. It’s always sad to see it go, but it was an amazing season filled with so much snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, bmxing, so many sponsor activities, on hill competitions, visiting pros to meet and watch shred…there was so many fun things to do, it went by so quickly!

It’s hard to pick out just a few favorite moments from summer 2011–there’s so many to chose from, but we gave it a shot. Luckily, Windells is year round, so the awesome times don’t have to stop! Open skate and bmx is happening on the weekends all fall. If you live in the Northwest, come skate the Concrete Jungle and BOB. After that, it’s time for winter and spring camps!

There’s a lot to do this winter, but before the snow falls where you live, here are a few of our favorite moments from summer 2011: Continue reading →

Atmosphere skate and bmx contests – Session 8

Session 8 was full on skate and bmx camp at Windells and Atmosphere Clothing was there with a contest for all of the campers. The Atmosphere crew took over BOB, holding a best trip on the Euro gap for skateboarders and a two run jam for the bmx’ers. Winners earned Atmopshere gear! Drew Smalley was there to capture all of the action, check out some photos below. Continue reading →

New for Windells this Summer

Summer is right around the corner. Only a few more weeks until Session 1 starts our season off with a bang! Whether this is your first summer here or your 12th, everyone will be excited about the new additions to Windells. We have been working hard to make sure 2011 is the best yet. Take a look at all our new features:

• Be prepared, this summer Windells will have 4 air bags!
• A new concrete street course was added to the Concrete Jungle, and the concrete is still being poured for more!
• Windells will have two rope tows accessing our park with 15 new features!
• BOB, our indoor skatepark, got a nice new makeover and it rides better then ever.
• The campus is ready to go and green friendly with fresh paint and all new energy saving windows.
• We are now the proud owners of two new buses sponsored by Skullcandy and Neff!
• Our on campus jib line has a whole new set up and along with the dry slope for the airbag jump.
• The dirt tracks are being rebuilt and we are stocking campus with more BMX bikes for everyone to use.
• The demo shed is full to the brim with next year’s product for the campers to test out all summer long.
• Snowboards, boots, bindings, skis, ski boots, ski poles and skate decks are new and ready to get checked out.

Keep checking the blog for the latest Windells News. If you aren’t a fan of us on Facebook, go like us today! The countdown to summer has begun, who’s ready? We are!