We had our 3ed annual Spin Cycle Classic™ on hill yesterday. It was insane! For those that don’t know, the way that the Spin Cycle Classic™ works is that the riders start out at 180′s and work their way through all of the spin up to 900, spinning in every direction. You also have to grab too, and if the landing is sketchy it doesn’t count! If you don’t get a spin then you get an X, and 3 X’s means you are out! It was crazy seeing people spin in every direction. We hire some real good snowboarders at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. Check out these photos to see what went down!

In the end, it ended up being Coach JD Dennis with the win! He was able to do all 4 900′s. It was awesome. The returning champ, Digger Ian Hart ended up in second place. The Spin Cycle Classic™ is for sure one of the coolest annual events that we have up at High Cascade. Tomorrow is our last day on hill for the summer! It’s going to be awesome! Check back tomorrow to see how it went down!

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.

The crew from Salomon and Bonfire came through once again with a stellar slalom course weaving through the High Cascade skate park and lots of sweet prizes for the big event. It was an amazing showing of speed, skating, skill and lots of fun for everyone participating or looking on.

Everyone got something sweet from Salomon and Bonfire

Semi-finals with the top 3 racers

The salomonder and bon bot letting their sportsmanship show at the start of the final round

First place winner, Ian Dodds winning a Salomon snowboard from Signature Session Pro Jed Anderson

Winter Park TransAm Coverage Click Here
The Transworld Snowboarding TransAm Tour made the fourth stop of the tour in the Rockie Mountains of CO, Winter Park to be exact. Check out all the pics, video, and words from this stop of the TransAm Tour presented by High Cascade Snowboard Camp!

Asst. Director Adam Kisiel was interviewed by KGW News Channel 8 Portland Oregon about High Cascade’s Olympic Halfpipe and how the U.S. Team trained there all summer long. Check out the video and link below!
Click Here: Kisiel KGW News 8 High Cascade Olympic Interview

High Cascade brought the Transworld Snowboarding TransAm Tour to the middle coast, Buckhill MN. Check out all the pics, video, and words of one crazy event. The High Cascade Snowboard Camp active volcano is still going off!
Buckhill MN TransAm

Winner! Vinnie Fava wins a brand new High Cascade Signal board!

Board and sticker pack winners please send us your shipping address in a message to our inbox, those that made us laugh you get the High Fives right now. Congratulations and thank you to all that sent in resolutions they are awesome.

Vinnie really inspired us by making a resolution to help his Dad, who is doing his best to do everything he can to make sure Vinnie and his friends are having fun and doing well. Vinnie also commented on one of our runner ups Dylan Hopkins and said that Dylan really posted a better post and that he hopes Dylan wins. That really touched and inspired us as well. Pretty unselfish acts and a great resolution.

Vinnie Fava new years resolutions: i want to help my dad take care of my family, he has been a single parent for 10 years and for the past 6 years he has managed a way to get my 2 brothers and sisters passes to our local mtn, he also takes alot of are friends up to. as a matter of fact i just got home from doing to volcom pb and j… rail jams which were in cali and i live in utah, he took one of my friends with us to. he is a great dad. i also want to have a fun year try to win a few comps, and have alot of fun!!!!!!!!!

INSPIRED US
These runner ups win a sticker pack, DVD, and a High Cascade t-shirt!

Lauren Barinsky My resolution is to teach my little brother how to snowboard. He’s not doing that great in school and I would like to inspire him to shine in another area of skill. I want to show him that he can do anything with practice, and it doesn’t have to be during schoolhours.
If he finally finds something that he likes, hopeful…ly I’ll be able to bring him with me to HCSC and open new doors for him.

Jeff Holce My new years resolution is to surround myself with only people who are going to lift me higher

Dylan Hopkins My new years resolution is to be the best i can be and do the best i can. I am planning to do better in school, pull more weight around the house, do the best i can snowboarding, and overall be a better, nicer person. I really want to prove that i deserve to snowboard as much as i do, go to vermont every weekend, and g…o to the best camp on earth. i want to show my parents i am accually extremly thankful for how much they do for me. I want to be able to make their life easier, along with everyone else’s. I want to help out kids that arnt as fortunate as us; kids who cant afford to snowboard and do what they love, kids who dont have many friends, kids who fighting to stay alive. Thank you mom and dad, and thank you hcsc, for letting me live my dream, and giving me the opertunity to do the best i can.

Zach Possorek My resolution is to be the best tht I can be and live above the influence.. And not to give into peer pressure and let people change who I am

MADE US LAUGH
These fine posts win a 1,000,000 High Fives, to be redeemed from friends and family.

Fritz Pfaff my new years resolution is to only make smores over real fires, not the microwaved marshmallow ones..

Austin Lee My new years resolution is to become a ninja assasin and take out the jonas brothers

Matthew VanSteenis resolution for this year: to shred as hard as possible, push my personal limits, and to love on the crew that i’am so blessed to ride and share life with.

Daniel O’Meara new years resoloutions:
1. hit the gym a bit more…
2. bring up my k/d ratio in modern warfare 2.
3. get accepted into college.
4. ride 50 days

Morgan Burns my new years resolutions: shred more, get a new girlfriend, win the board, go to High Cascade summer snowboard camp…and get legit.

That’s right, the Transworld TransAm Tour has begun and High Cascade is presenting every stop once again this season. Here is the coverage from Transworld Snowboarding and Waterville Valley. I think you will agree based on this stop, it is going to be a fun one!

Transworld Snowboarding’s Trans Am stop #1 in Waterville Valley went off this past weekend.

Videos link:

Photos Here!

Check em out!

Waterville Valley Coverage straight from the resort:

http://www.waterville.com/info/snowboard/transgallery2010.asp?j=13611017&e=jcobbett.wv@boothcreek.com&l=1635443_HTML&u=160752716&mid=12421&jb=0&utm_campaign=