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With a 89,500 square foot skatepark, dirt trails, and concrete bowls, Windells BMX Camp targets every type of off-road cyclist. Programs include BMX street, dirt, technical, freeride and backcountry riding.

Best of BMX Summer 2012

March 12, 2013 By 9 Comments

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They’re whirring around the dirt jumps from morning until dusk. BMX campers flock to Windells to ride some of the best private dirt, wood, and concrete tracks. Not only do bikers have full access to every cruisable inch of campus, campers get to ride a handful of the best parks the Northwest has to offer. When snowboard and ski campers load up to hit the snow, BMX and skateboard campers take to the streets with coaches and invited pros. Get a look at the best bike highlights of Summer 2012.

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BOB’s new rail is ready to go!

November 20, 2012 By 21 Comments

Our favorite local legend, BOB, received a new rail! The new addition, created by head skate coach Jamie Weller, has had the Windells Academy students smiling from ear to ear. Check out their recent edit from this past week, and make sure to come to our campus this Thanksgiving weekend to get a taste of the new rail for yourself!

Open Skate and Bike Hours:

Friday 5:00pm to 10:00pm | Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm | Sunday 9:00am to 5:00pm

$10 for Skaters/Inline Skaters/Scooters per day
$15 for Skiers & Snowboarders per day
$20 for BMX/Freeride MTB (NO PEGS) per day

Session 7 and 8: Campers of the day

August 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The BMX program has been fantastic this summer. Head BMX Coach, Scott Draper, has done a great job vamping up the program and making it the best it can be. He brought on Shawn McIntosh to help him handle the little rippers for the last couple sessions of Summer 2012. I asked Scott to think about which of his campers might make a good addition to the batch of 2012′s Campers of the Day and he didn’t have to think long. Scott Harris has been improving and representing all session and his coach thought Scott was the obvious choice.

Scott Harris, 13, is from Anchorage, Alaska. He’s been to Windells twice before. “Scott is a great rider. He tries really hard, I guess ‘fearless’ is a good word for him. He’s improved a lot over this session. He’s 360′ing doubles in Forest Park. At the end of the day, I ask the kids to do something memorable before we the other campers usually end up nominating Scott,” his coach said.

“All of the kids have been awesome this session. Chris has been great and Tic Tac is cool. The kids this session and all summer have been so great.”

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11 Reasons to come to Windells this summer

April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Windells is a place in the mountains to experience unstoppable camp fun! It’s a place to make lifelong friends. A place to ride with the pros. A place where beginner, intermediate and expert riders can sharpen their skills.  It’s a place with the longest running and most creative snowpark in North America.

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Windells At The 30th Annual Burton US Open

March 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships turned “29 again” this winter. Superhumans Elena Hight, Jamie Anderson, and former campers Shaun White and Louie Vito topped the podiums while common folk grazed for free stuff at the sponsor tents. Method Man and Redman played a concert for VIP Open goers and, as always, too much fun was had.

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How to: Get your butt to Windells this summer

March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Now is the time to think about summer camp! Tons of you are asking about scholarships and discounts. Let’s shine some light on the issue here. We do offer the following discounts:

1) “Good Grades” Discount (mostly A’s and B’s or a 3.4 GPA and up!) Fax us a copy of your report card or transcript and we’ll knock $50 off your camp fee just for being smart.

2) “Bring a Friend” Discount In your registration paperwork (under “How’d you hear about camp?”) persuade your friend(s) to put your name down and you’ll get $50 off for every friend that’s new to Windells. Over the years we’ve discovered friends respond well to bribery with candy.

3) USASA Discount Are you a USASA member? That’s neat. We’ll give you $151 off of camp.

Windells Camp is accredited by the American Camping Association. What does this mean for you? There’s money floating around the universe waiting to be scooped up! Search for federal grants. They’re out there.

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New for Windells this Summer

May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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!

Windells Weekend – Game of Skate & Bike

February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This past weekend Windells staff decided to organize a couple games of Skate and Bike for the kids that come to Open Skate.  We enjoy putting on contests for you to win prizes so what better way then a good old fashion game of S-K-A-T-E.

Hours of Open Skate/Bike are as follows:  Friday 5-10pm, Saturday & Sunday 9-5pm However we are closed when Camp is in Session!

Winners from this weekend!

The Farm Project decided to stop by and say “what’s up” too.

Windells College Discount!

January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Windells College Discount

“WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOUR WINDELLS STICKERS?” – WINNER!

January 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Sorry for the delay folks!  We recently wrapped up our Holiday Camp Session which was super fun and ended up losing track of time!  Now as promised there is a winner to the “where in the world are your Windells sticker” contest.  For those of you just checking in this was a contest to submit the most unique and creative place you have put one of your beloved Windells stickers.  The winner will be receiving a box full of Windells goodies!

Be sure to stay up-to-date with the Windells Blog for all sorts of news, contests and camp updates!

Finally, the winner of the “where in the world are your Windells stickers” contest…for being creative and defacing their parent’s dictionary…Nick Gates!

Check out some of the other submissions below!

Dedication.

“Whatcha lookin’ at!”

Merry Christmas!

Thank you to all that participated!  If you want to get a hold of some new Windells Stickers please feel free to email us your name and address and send it to info@windells.com

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