The bizarre adventures continue for the Van Delirium crew including Ian Sams, Austin Young, Erik Leon and Eli Weiner as they make their way to Mt. Hood, Oregon for some quick laps and backyard sessions at the Summits. Then they head off to Stevens Pass, Washington for a couple days of backcountry fun where they met up with Scotty Vine and Joe Bosler (imagine rail kids in the backcountry.) Things get weird for the Van crew as the long trip and the Delirium settles in.
Why do we snowboard? Why do we care why we snowboard? If we care about why we snowboard, then are we really focusing on what matters most? What does matter the most? Why wouldn’t we just go snowboarding for the sake of snowboarding? Ian Sams, Austin Young, Erik Leon and Eli Weiner did just that. It was a trip. This is episode 1 of their trip from Crestline, California to Stevens Pass, Washington and back known only as Van Delirium. Along the way they connected with many friends including Nick Visconti, Scotty Vine and Joe Bosler. Woooaaahhh Duuude!
One of Arbor’s newest snow team riders, Sammy Spiteri is up at Windells summer snowboard camp at Mt. Hood just crushing it on a daily basis. Check out his shots in Windells latest video edit. If he keeps being good, we might even get him a profile on our website. Watch out Sammy, Nick Visconti and Curtis Woodman are coming your way real soon.
Hey kids, it’s time to burn those text books and start thinking about summer camp. Why not go snowboarding this summer? That’s right…head to Mt. Hood and get your summer shred on at Windells summer snowboard camp and get schooled by Arbor International team rider, Nick Visconti. There is no doubt that good times will be had. (Please don’t actually burn your books, we can’t really condone that. Maybe just bury them. The new edition will be out next year anyway.)
Here’s the kind of fun you may have missed last season:
It’s that hazy time of year again. You’re sitting in your chair in math class, half-listening as your teacher drones on about the quadratic formula and half-staring out the window at blue skies and green grass. Summer vacation is on the horizon and the best place to spend it is at Mount Hood in Oregon with Windells. Lucky for you, there’s still time to get in on the action.
Windells Session 1, June 6-13, is starting summer off with a bang! Over the last year, we have built some wild new features on campus and the campers during Session 1 will be the first to try everything out! Two new dry slopes and campus bag jump for perfecting tricks and the biggest skatepark in the Northwest that caters to both beginning skaters learning to push around as well as concrete wave aficionados.
There’s more, too! Session 1 is getting an infusion of wild style. Nick Visconti, Tim Humphreys, and Austin Hironaka will be captivating your minds while igniting creativity on and off the mountain. Along side Sessions and Think Thank professionals, Tahoe Dangerzone’s Brent Oftedal and NJ Petersen will be catalysts for a dynamic Windells summer shredding epidemic.
This is the second summer that Nick Visconti is kicking off the season at Windells and he is ridiculously excited. “I’m holding my breath till camp starts, I hope camp is soon because I am already feeling light-headed!â€
More mystical than last year, he goes on to explain about what campers can potentially expect on and off hill. “I have been slaving away to unravel the ancient mysteries of Egyptian building technology to create an unfathomable feature with cosmic mystique. Although minds of modern civilization are not yet ready to understand our discovery, Hump, Naka and I will unveil the unknown. Session 1 will rediscover the intricacies of the mind and explore the possibilities of a snowboard.â€
Arbor team riders Pat Milbery, Moss Halladay and Joe Bosler led the final session at Windells this summer.
Pat, Moss and Joe gather with the campers from the last Windells session.
The Arbor Snow team took over Windell’s Snowboard Camp at Mt Hood this summer for their final session. Team riders Pat Milbery, Moss Halladay and Joe Bosler held down their signature DREAM FEATURE collaboration session with Skullcandy with a super unique build.
The crew built a multi-directional feature that consisted of a c-shaped corrugated tube, a barrel jib, a dance floor box and a rhythm section with a mailbox spine to keep the flow going. The kids at camp loved the feature, which was the goal of the team build. Click here for video of this ultra creative feature.
The team also hosted a hip-hop freestyle battle based on words pertaining to Arbor as a brand and as a education to increase the campers knowledge of the brand. Pat, Moss and Joe awarded a bunch of Arbor gear to the campers who participated in the battle including a complete OSO skate deck, an 09/10 Draft snowboard and very comfortable Arbor bamboo crew-neck sweater.
The crew also hosted a mustard eating contest on hill which some lucky campers got hooked up with some new Arbor fitted hats. Last but not least, the campers got to be a part of the knockout basketball battle, where the elimination rounds lead to a jousting battle over the foam pit. The lucky few left in this activity won new Arbor beanies and their choice of fitted hats. Every camper during that session also got hooked up with a new Arbor tree-chain necklace, the first 200 Arbor ever produced.
Thanks for the support guys, and keep checking out the Arbor riders on the new website and get your butts up to Windell’s Camp for next summer’s action.
