The girls competing to “win a date” with Zak Hale.

Windells has hosted most of the top female snowboard and ski athletes to date. Some were campers and now return to Mt. Hood every summer as coaches or to host their own Team Takeover Sessions. Some are Olympic athletes and choose Windells as their summer training facility. Whatever the reason they come to camp, our professional female athletes are positive role models for young campers ready to dive into the world of action sports.

Windells holds a variety of girls only activities throughout each session. Our skate coaches and friends at Skate Like a Girl round up campers for a girls only skate session to comfortably ease some into their first time shredding concrete. Betty Rides, a long-time camp sponsor, hosts an 80′s ladies night every session and brings in team riders from around the world to hang out with the girls, watch movies, eat candy and do manicures. The Burton Girls team visits and hosts a giant girls only Q&A.

Hannah Teter, Gabi Viteri, Spencer O’Brien, Kelly Clark, Ellery Hollingsworth and Natasza Zurek talk about how Windells Camp has shaped their careers as pro shredders.

A standout moment of 2012 was Hana Beaman‘s 720 over the Baker road gap on the way to Mt. Baker, Washington, naming Hana the first and only female to hit the gap. Hana was a skate coach at Windells and she returns in the summer time to hang out with campers on hill and on campus and compete in the annual Bonfire Pipe to Pipe.

This past week, Elena Hight became the first female to throw a double backside alley-oop rodeo in the pipe. Elena said in an interview with ESPN, “We went to the training center in Park City, worked on doing it into the foam pit. Then in Mammoth I did it into the airbag, and then tried it on snow. Being able to progress the trick that way, I felt way safer and more prepared than if I’d tried to do it for the first time on snow.” Windells Camp has all the amenities to ease into learning new tricks just as Elena did; on hill and on campus BagJumps, Olympic style trampolines, and a 9×9 foam pit.

In March, our ski coaches and friends Ashley Battersby, Keri Herman and Kaya Turski skied the dreamlike feature known as “the Chateaux” at NINE QUEENS 2012 in Fiss, Austria. NINE QUEENS is arguably the biggest and best of its kind, a female specific freeski jib and big air competition, and the Windells staff held it down.

Girls, register for your session at Windells to improve your skill, have the experience of a lifetime, and make lifelong, like-minded friends at the “funnest” place on Earth!

A spring storm has hit the Northwest! Mt. Hood is getting an insane amount of snow this week. Snow really started falling yesterday and we don’t see any sign of it letting up. Meadows reported 25″+ in the last 24 hours and a total base of 169″. The evidence is in the snapshot of their picnic tables! Timberline is sitting pretty and prepped for a fantastic summer. We were happy to see this photo of the Palmer buried under the late winter snow pack. Timberline’s reported base depth of 198″ is above average!

What does this mean for campers? Well, Spring Break campers are going to get some of the best powder the Northwest has seen all winter, maybe even the best snow in the country with the season the way it has been. Summer campers are set for riding right until the end of summer! It’s going to be a great one on Mt. Hood. Get registered and claim your piece of the action! Head over to www.windells.com to reserve your spot today.

Windells familiar faces, Chas Guldemond and Spencer O’Brien, were dubbed Slopestyle World Champions after their impressive performances on the perfectly groomed course. Guldemond earned his $40,000 bounty with a frontside blunt 270 out, front board to 450 out, switch back 1260, back 1080, tailpress to back 180 and a huge cab 1260 to put the icing on the cake. Spencer’s run sent her to the top of the women’s Slopestyle podium accompanied by Jaime Anderson and Enni Rukajarvi. O’Brien was able to stump Anderson’s success streak with a front board, noseslide, back 540, switch back 540, 50-50, and a lofty front 720.

Louie Vito and Matt Ladley, contenders for the Men’s Halfpipe Championship title, have spent plenty of time at Camp. Windells camper and Burton team rider, Kelly Clark, made this her 15th consecutive Halfpipe win. Clark made her run look easy: frontside air, backside 540 mute, frontside 1080 mute, cab 720 mute, and frontside inverted 720.

Windells has given these world class athletes the opportunity to ride and train in the off season on world renown facilities. We’re proud to see the hard work of team members and campers pay off, clearly, in big ways. Want to get in on the action? Head to www.windells.com to see what Windells can do for you. Reserve your spot for Spring and Summer Camps today!

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!

Name: Rachel Lemons

Title: Vice President and CFO

Hometown: Pullman, WA

Primary Sport: Snowboarding

Favorite Resort: Mt Hood Meadows

Favorite thing about Windells: The Concrete Jungle. Every day I look outside my office window, I remember why I’m learning to skateboard.

Favorite memory from camp: Watching all the counselors get pied in the face each session. I always made sure to hide on that day so I wouldn’t become a victim!

For those of you who don’t yet know about the Employee Scavenger Hunt, here’s the scoop:

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.

This winter hibernation gives us a perfect opportunity for you guys at home, to find our staff members in their natural habitats! Yup, you guessed it, SCAVENGER HUNT! This Windells Camp blog installment called, “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? Well, yea, it is!

Check out the footage of the Rail Jam here:

FRONTLINE RAILJAM 2011 from Tim Schiphorst on Vimeo.

Now check out more from the Winner of the Frontline Jam and Windells friend, Denis, killing it in the lane!

Denis Bonus at Windells 2011 from dasha nosova on Vimeo.

Six down, one to go, and still riding down to the parking lot. What a summer it’s been. Session 6 couldn’t have been any better. We had a ton of fun riding the park and sunny skies everyday.

The Surface team dropped in at Windells for skiing, skating, games, and even tie dying.

Session 6 Skate… so much skating.

Filmed By: Tyler Malay, Alexandra Erickson, Jake Strassman, Paul Heran & Jacob Durham

Spots for camp are filling up fast! With only a few weeks left, it’s time to fill out that registration packet and secure your place with us this summer. Do yourself a favor, use your noggin and sign up for Sessions 1 or 2! In return, we will do our best to protect that brain of yours by hooking you up with a FREE, yes free, RED helmet! That’s right. Be one of the first 120 campers to sign up and pay in full for either Session 1 or 2, and win some swag.

And College students! Don’t forget, if you are a current student, you can receive $200 off Session 1 if you fax in your Student ID Card. We know you need a summer vacation after finals week, so why not come to Windells for the best week of your young adult life? Sign up, it will be worth your while.

How do you sign up you ask? Well it’s easy, just click on the REGISTER tab on the home page and sign up! For all you helmet seekers out there, use the discount code RED2011 and you are all set. Remember, you must pay in full to receive your prize.

For the college folk in need of a discount, use the code collegeBUMdeal. Told you it was simple. Pack your bags, keep working on that goggle tan, and we will see you this summer!

DISCOUNT CODES

First 120 campers to sign up for Session 1 or 2 and pay in full receive a new RED helmet: RED2011

Current college students fax in a copy of your Student ID Card and receive $200 off Session 1: collegeBUMdeal

Windells College Discount

Mike Hornbeck. Summer 2010… from Windells on Vimeo.