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Windells Academy students Mike Mochan, Nick G and summer college student Eric Hughes were competitors in this years Aspen Open at Buttermilk. Held on the same slope style course as this years Winter X games, it was quite the crowd pleaser. Windells Academy student Nick placed in qualifiers, and...
Windells Academy is the "funnest" AND smartest place on earth! The past week at Windells Academy was jam packed with fun. The students took a trip to the bowling ally wednesday night for 2 rounds of awesome cosmic bowling. All snowboard students prepared and competed in the second USASA...
Windells Academy ski students took off last thursday, headed for Big Bear for this years Gatorade Free Flow Tour. Windells Academy students Lyman Currier and Mike Mochan competed in the freeski slopestyle event. Mike Mochan took the podium in third with a cork 900 over the Gambler followed by...
On Dec. 15th the students and staff of Windells Academy packed up their gear and headed for Dew Tour. The students spent the week competing and cheering on their friends in both halfpipe and slope style. On Dec. 18th,Christian Allen, one of our college Academy students from this past summer...
Last weekend, the students of Windells Academy packed up and headed to Colorado for the 2009 Dew Tour.Dew Tour event organizers Dan & Brian were found happily rockin Windells gear upon arrival. The students have been competing and cheering on their friends in both halfpipe and slope style this...
Last weekend, the students of Windells Academy packed up and headed to Colorado for the 2009 Dew Tour.Dew Tour event organizers Dan & Brian were found happily rockin Windells gear upon arrival. The students have been competing and cheering on their friends in both halfpipe and slope style this...
World famous freestyle skier Glen Plake made a stop at Mt.Hood this week to hang out with the students of Windells Academy. Glen and his wife Kimberly chose Hood for one of their multiple stops on their "home town" ski tour. Glen, famous for his 2 foot tall, usually multicolored mohawk, decided...
Do you like smooth transitions and perfect cut vert walls? Well then Mt. Hood Meadows is the place to be! Besides their amazing terrain and killer tree runs, meadows continues to build a killer terrain park AND perfect pipe every year. This morning, the students of Windells Academy headed up to...
Have you been dreaming of snow? Is your local mountain resort STILL not open? Check out Mt.Hood has to offer! Mt. Hood has been recentley blanketed with 102 inches of Fresh Pow. Timberline has their park up, Mt. Hood Meadows has their park and mini pipe up and ski bowl is set up and ready to...
Over the past weekend, the students and staff of Windells Academy took a trip down to San Jose California for the Skidazzle event. All students of Windells Academy competed in the indoor rail jam, and assisted in all of the weekend demos as the pro team. The students also assisted in the...
WINTER IS HERE!!! Timberline opened lifts for the season this past saturday morning at 9:30am. The students of Windells Academy headed up the mountain for a full day of powder and park runs. It has been snowing all day every day since saturday. Timberline has a park up with rails and boxes for...
The students of Windells Academy were more than happy when they woke up tuesday morning to hear about the fresh powder up at Mt. Hood. Everyone got into the van quick after breakfast and headed up to the mountain for a great day of adventure and powder runs. It continued to snow all day long...
The students of Windells Academy were more than happy when they woke up tuesday morning to hear about the fresh powder up at Mt. Hood. Everyone got into the van quick after breakfast and headed up to the mountain for a great day of adventure and powder runs. It continued to snow all day long...
As Halloween approaches, the students of Windells Academy have been desiring to pick up their yearly pumpkin to carve. We thought, where would be a better place to get a pumpkin than the Roloff farm! For those of you that don't know, Matt Roloff, father of the TLC hit series Little People Big...
Weekends at Windells Academy involve some of the "funnest" stuff you could imagine. This weekend, as well as all others, Windells opened campus to the public for open skate! Thats right, all of Windells campus including the dirt tracks, concrete jungle and B.O.B are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! This...
Windells Academy has been getting a little creative with our "on snow" features in the past couple days. As you saw, on friday we hauled snow back from the mountain and had a rail session in the skate jungle. Yesterday we decided to take this idea a step further. We went up to mt. Hood, filled...
At Windells Academy, the students are allowed to use all facilities in their free time. Instead of taking recess or an “off campus” lunch break like most highschools, the students of Windells Academy take their break at B.O.B! The facilities at Windells are available any time the students would...
Here at Windells Academy, every Wednesday, and on some weekends we take an amazing field trip. Sometimes they are educational and sometimes they have to do with the snowboard industry. So far, (as you have seen in the blogs) we have taken trips to visit Atmosphere clothing, Bonfire snowboards...
Over the past weekend, the students of Windells Academy took a trip up to Seattle. While in Seattle, we stopped by the K2, Line skies, and Ride snowboards headquarters. The students met everyone on board at the warehouse and learned a lot. Everything from pressing snowboards and skies, creating...
