We hope you will enjoy some pictures from this session’s all girl activities!  First up, are the pictures from the Gnu “Let’s Make Magic” activity.  The egg drop never ceases to entertain and amaze everyone!

Group shot before the drop

Drop from the top

The victorious threesome

And now, for some pictures from the Airblaster arts and crafts activity…Airshade bedazzling!  What a good way to spend a sunny summer afternoon!

Shades and gems

Wild style

Shorts and shades

It’s been a great summer of activities!  Thanks to all of the sponsors that created and supported the activities!

The girls got so extreme this session!  Everyone had a blast at the all girl activities!  On day 3, we experienced one of the most progressive and fun gatherings at the foam pit:

Everyone learned how to throw front and back flips

Getting "flip certified", to be able to learn flips on the Bag Jump on hill

Launching a front flip off the mini tramp

Then, later in the session, all girls’ skate went down.  All girls’ skate has always been a favorite activity for the girl campers and staff!  Everyone learned some new tricks.  And more importantly, the girls that had never skated before can now go home with some basic maneuvers.  Maneuvers that will allow them to continue to skate and get better!

Ramp pumping party

Getting ready for kick turns and drop ins

Dropping in like a boss

Yesterday, it was a double whammy of two of the most heavy hitting activities at camp.  As if snowboarding above the clouds all day wasn’t enough!  In the afternoon, the girls relaxed with the Roxy arts and crafts activity…”Tees and Tepees”!  They all created some very amazing desktop tepees.  And everyone got a Roxy tee shirt for participating.

The group. Getting artsy.

We walked deep into the woods for this group photo.

After “Tees and Tepees”, the girls refueled with some awesome pizza from the kitchen.  Then, they all participated in the Gnu “Let’s Make Magic” activity!  If you haven’t been following the blog…well, you’ve been missing out.  It’s alright though, because you will be filled in.  The Gnu activity is an egg drop!  Each team of three has to build something in which to keep their egg safe.  Safe enough to be dropped from each level of Boardwalk!  The teams that survived all three levels had to battle for the Gnu B Nice snowboard, by doing an egg toss.  We finally narrowed down a winner.  It was Sloane!  A huge shout out to Olivia too!

The teams before the drop.

Stoked on the Gnu B Nice.

Welp, here we are in session 4.  The Gnu “Let’s Make Magic”, aka the egg drop was awesome.  As usual.  The girl campers never cease to amaze Gnu Girls Terri and Sandra!  The girls all created such elaborate contraptions, if you will.  Contraptions that kept many an egg safe as they were dropped from the sky.  Check out the pictures:

Oops

Hard at Work

Gnu Group Photos

The Winning Team

This session’s “Roxy Tees and Tepees” activity was a great way for the girls to spend a warm afternoon.  Everyone made some awesome looking tepees!  Also, each participant got a Roxy T shirt.

Tepee village

Stoked to be designing tepees!

Group shot! Somebody didn't finish their tepee yet

Yup.  The Gnu “let’s make magic” activity is an egg drop!  Like last session, this session’s girls are proving to be one smart group of campers.  The girls are grouped into teams of three and are given these items: 2 ballons, 5 marshmallows, construction paper, string, tape, and 5 straws.  They then create some of the coolest contraptions we’ve ever seen, to protect one magical egg.

Campers hard at work while Sandra photo bombs with the B-Nice

Then, very nervously, the egg-contraptions are dropped off the Boardwalk balconies.  The first drop, off the second story, broke a couple eggs.  The second drop, off the third story, broke a few more.  Then only one egg survived the long drop from the fourth story!

Would your egg survive?

The winning team was so excited that their egg did not break!  But, how to decide who gets the Gnu B-Nice snowboard?  Like we always do in the snowboard world…ro sham bo!

Winning!

Nestled along the outskirts of the trampoline zone, next to the massive Oregon trees sits HCSC’s newest addition, compliments of Roxy.  We now have a tepee, much like the tepees designed and used by the Plains Indians.  Tepee stands for “dwelling place” and is a simple home defined by nature and dictated by the elements.

A functional and cozy place to hang out

This session, the girls got to experience first hand how to build a tepee.  They all designed and assembled their very own desktop tepee.  Roxy really outdid themselves, because this was the best arts and crafts activity ever to occur at camp!  Every girl approached their tepee design in a very different way, and all worked so hard that they almost missed dinner.

Designing the dwellings

The girls embraced their tepees as an artistic statement of form and function.  And while tepees are at home in nature, the tepees created during the Roxy activity will be at home on a desktop or dresser.

Tepee village

To go along with the tepees, every participant got a Roxy T Shirt.

Tees and Tepees

It was another beautiful day up at High Cascade.  The girls were eager to finish bedazzling their Airshades so they could take them for a test run.

I managed to snap this group photo before the rest of the girls ran away to show off their new shades.

The first all girl’s foam pit of the summer was officially one for the record books.  We shut down the foam pit exclusively to the girl campers so they could get down to business.  And by business, I mean fun!  The session started off mellow, with some launches off the mini tramp into the foam.

There were so many front flips, superman front flips, and misty flips, all complimented by massive hang time!  A backflip clinic also went down, where most of the girls learned how to throw backflips.

Then there were many “challenges” that the girls tried.  A high jump contest went down.  There was also a Super Mario challenge, which, well, you had to be there.  The last challenge was a “dodge foam” challenge.  All in all, the foam pit proved to be a super fun activity, where everyone learned new tricks!

The Eco Challenge started out at a fast and furious pace with tons of Oakley goggles, Eco-friendly outerwear from the GB collection and Steve Fisher’s bamboo pro model up for grabs!

The whole Eco Challenge Scavenger Hunt Group posing with ALEX and Gretchen!

The campers had to complete a 10 question scavenger hunt including tasks such as: find Gretchen and Steve at their favorite Gov’y spot, pick up 5 pieces of trash and think of 2 ways HCSC could become more environmentally friendly.

The Scavenger Hunt Questions. Don't worry, we kept things green by printing them on the back of scrap paper from our recycling bin!

In what seemed like no time at all the first two teams rolled in with the completed Eco Challenges!

The first team to come back got to Ro Sham Bo between and Oakley prize pack or Steve Fisher's Pro Model Board. Can you guess who won the board?

It was a close race! These ladies took second place by mere seconds, and each got to pick out a peice of eco-friendly outerwear from the GB collection.

After the Eco Challenge results were all tallied, the camper teams met back at the lodge to make a piece of artwork or fashion out of the trash they had collected and any other reused or reclaimed items they could find. The level of creative insight for the art projects was incredible and there was even more prizes on the line for Gretchen’s and Steve’s favorite picks.

The 3rd place team got extra points for picking up way more than the required 5 peices of trash to make their art project.

The second place team found Gretchen's soft spot when they incorporated both ALEX of alexbottle.com and high cascade!

Last but not least, these guys incorporated the marshmallow, high cascade, and a snowboard/collage to bring home the first place title. Congrats!

The art work podium shot.

It was was fun, educational and generally awesome for everyone who was involved! I am looking forward to paging through all the Eco Challenges and put some of the ideas to work making my everyday life and high cascade more green! Check out more of the art projects below.