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HEED THY WARNING YOUNG SQUASHBUCKLERS!!!

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

For the majestic fleet of Gnu Girls Pirates hath sailed into thy harbor of our noble port of High Cascade Snowboard Camp!

With them, they brought great bounty, as well as great danger!

For the 4th time this summer, the Gnu Girls hath despoiled our noble village!

This time, the fierce competition took place on the great table tennis field. Tis a field where humans test their utmost strength and internal fortitude. The challenge was extremely tough. The Gnu Pirate Girls had to play ping-pong with one eye covered, just like ole’ black beard would play. It takes a true Pirate to become an expert sword handler!

It was not an easy task, playing in a 2-dimensional world.

The reward however, now that is a different story. The reward was extremely plentiful.

The winner of the one eyed ping pong received a brand new Gnu Park Pickle, while 2nd, and 3ed place took home awesome Gnu T-shirts! These Gnu Pirate Girls are expert sword handlers! Beware if thy cross paths with these dangerous and treacherous Pirates!! God Speed and good luck to all of thee!!!!

GARRRRR MATEY’S HEED ME WARNING!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Because the Gnu Girl’s Pirate games returned during Session 2, and we know for sure they are going to come back and drop anchor during Session 3! This past Session the contest was on the mountain. There was an extremely fierce, and extra awesome medium jump contest for the lady pirates.

The ladies were riding like they were trying to get rid of their scurvy. Girls were absolutely shredding!

Everyone was so pumped to be up there riding in the Gnu Pirates game.

But in the end, everyone was out for the bounty. The bounty this session was a Gnu Park Pickle. One board, for one winner. And in the end, the judges were completely perplexed!

In the end however it was Emily coming in 3ed place with some huge 180′s and stylish grabs. In 2nd place, it was Amelia, with some really awesome 360′s and some huge 180′s. But there could only be one winner, one finder of the treasure and the bounty, and that was Emma. Emma was spinning off the jump in all four directions, and stomping tricks left and right!


Everyone was so pumped with their stickers!!!!!

And Emma was sooooooo pumped on the Gnu Park Pickle. Can’t wait to see what the Gnu Lady Pirates come up with for Session 3!!!

GRRRRRRRR MATEYS!!!

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Ahoy all ye mates in internet land. Listen all and heed me warnings! A bunch of ye’ ole swashbucklers are up at High Cascade this summer!!!

In celebration of the new Pirates movie, which comes out soon, the good buccaneers at GNU will be having holding Gnu Girls Pirate Games special activity, every single Session™! Gnu is giving away a tons of prizes, and to the victor goes the spoils.

Ye’ ole winner of the contest get a brand new GNU board, and a bunch of other bounty!!!

This past Session™, the activity was “Swabbing the Deck”. All the girl campers split up into teams of two and competed in a fierce challenge of “swabbing” the HCSC street course deck. The girls had to swab their respective balls into their partners corresponding goals.

In true Pirate fashion, there could only be one winner. The only way to figure out who the one soul surviving pirate would be was to see who could walk the plank the furthest.

By walk the plank, what we really mean is leap into the foam pit!!! In the end, the two most ruthless pirates, who Swabbed the Deck the fastest were Marie and Payton. They then had to kiss their camaraderie good-bye and battle each other to the finish!!!! The girls jumped, and jumped, but in the end there could only be one winner, and that was Marie!


Marie
got a brand new B Street Board from GNU!!!!

Stay tuned and see what crazy Pirate activity we all have planned for Session™ 2!!!!

Demo Center 2011™

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

The Demo Center™ this year is looking stacked! We have unpacked, and set up all of the product, and it’s looking amazing! This summer we have boards from Burton, DC, K2, Capita, Lib-Tech, Gnu, and Bataleon. We, at HCSC, decided it would be a good idea for everyone out there in internet land to get a first hand sneak peak at all of the radical products that have flooded the Demo Center™! And who better to show you all of the radical gear than the staff of HCSC who ride for each of these brands? Well we couldn’t think of anyone better either, so first up is Alex Rodway showing off the new K2 Happy Hour deck:


Man that deck has a really cool shape, and that green is just jaw dropping.

DC’s new decks are also pretty jaw dropping. Look at Tanner McCartyshowing off DC’s new deck, the Focus:


Look at how pumped Tanner is to ride this board! His jaw is literally on the ground! That’s how pumped you will feel when you strap it to your feet too.

Coach Tucker Andrews stopped by to show all of you just how amazing the Lib-Tech TRS deck is:

Man look at him shred that ax. If only he could shred it like he can shred that Lib-Tech TRS deck. Oh man. Speaking of shredding, look at the Capita deck counselor Mike Ravelson is going to be ripping around on this summer.


That’s right, that is the 2012 Capita Ultrafear. Man, that deck looks reallllll good. You can see Rav ride that deck all summer here at HCSC.

We know, we know. You are thinking that there just can’t be anymore awesome decks in the Demo Center™ just waiting for you to try out. But oh man are you wrong. You saw him on the cover of Snowboarder Magazine, now you can see him crushing HCSC’s park on the daily as part of the infamous K-unit. Let Kyle Lopicolo show you how rad next years Bataleon Evil Twin deck really is:

Man that Bataleon board looks “sick”. You know what else is really “sick”? A person with Salmonella? No, no that’s not what we are talking about. Give up, can’t guess it? Well it’s Forum Snowboards, and they are in our Demo Center™ this year. Check out one of the new graphics for the Young blood, being shown by Forum dude, and coach JD Dennis

Burton Snowboards are also back in the mix this summer! Check out the oldest dude known to man, showing off this rad Burton Whammy Bar deck. It’s looking real good!

We know that we just bombarded you with some of the coolest looking boards ever, but we have one left to show you. Check out Max Warbington showing you how awesome the new GNU Street Series deck is.


This deck is so stunning, Max had to keep his shades on.

We hope you all are just as excited about the 2011 Demo Center™ as we are, because this year we have some of the best gear that we have ever had in store. Get ready to try them all out! The Demo Center™ is free for all campers, and there’s no limit to the amount of gear that you can demo! You can ride a new board every single day if you really wanted to!!!!!

Lost & Found: Jake Knigge (on the Gnu’s Glog)

Monday, October 11th, 2010

If you’ve been to HCSC and you’ve stayed in The Lodge: then you know Knigge.  If you’ve been to HCSC and flown into PDX, then you probably know Knigge.   A 3rd year counselor and the man in charge of all HCSC airport arrivals on Arrival Day, Jake keeps things running smooth all summer long.

Well somehow this video was lost on the Internet… and we found it on the Gnu Blog (the Glog).

We found this on the Internet if anyone was looking for it...

Mid Summer Sponsor Activity Super Post!

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Summer is flying by! Check out the some of the sponsor activities and events that have been going off here at High Cascade.

Leanne Pelosi on the megaphone at an all girls session in the K2 foam pit.

A camper throwing down in the K2 Harshmallow Foam Pit Big Air.

Dodgeball at the Oakley Arena is a favorite for staff and campers!

A fight to the finish for the Salomonder and Bon Bot in the Salomon/Bonfire Skate Race.

Session 2 ladies pose with their Salomon Design-a-Dream Board entrees.

One Ball Jay Wax Clinics to give you the speed you need.

Zac Marben giving all the Celtek Design a Glove contestants a thumbs up.

The Vans game of S.K.A.T.E. has been going off as well, here are the session 3 winners.

Custom Trucker Hats courtesy of Volcom.

The DC Airbag has been an awesome addition to the main park.

Burton's always brings lots of prizes and tons of fun during their Sponsor Activities

Burton hosts Hide the Homie and the Dan Marino Football Throw with tons of great prizes.

Funny outfits and lots of laughs are guaranteed at Burton's all girls Project Runway Party.

The One Life Crew getting drenched after hosting the Gatorade Water Fight.

Coach Mercedes handing out Tweeker Tanks to the finalists in the Forum Tweeker Dance off.

Campers stoked on their Andreas Wiig Wigs and Forum, Four Square and Special Blend prizes after a heated Four Square Battle.

Elizabeth Bartlett is all smiles after the Airblaster airshades bedazzling activity.

Roxy and Gnu give the ladies a Minute-to-Win-It! (as seen on TV)

Wow. Can you believe that’s just a sampling of what’s happening here at High Cascade? Stay tuned for more posts and exciting news from the activities department!

Gnu Minute to Win it!

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Coaches Terri and Sandra pose with the champions!

These smiles can only be from one thing: sweet victory in the Gnu “Minute to Win It” challenge!

Camper Olivia shakes what her mama gave her!

Happy Campers with their new Gnu beanies

The Marshmallow is our beloved mascot