Snowboarding. In July. In a T-shirt.

Wait, what?

Yes. Actual snow. Actual July.

Timberline sits at about 8,500 feet on the Palmer Glacier, which is why it runs the longest ski season on the continent. Every summer a full freestyle park is cut into the glacier — progressive jump lines, rails, boxes, a halfpipe and an airbag. You ride in the morning when it’s perfect, and you are eating lunch in a T-shirt by early afternoon.

Rider in the air above the summer glacier — Real footage · Mt. Hood summer

Riding the glacier in summer conditions — Palmer Glacier · the snow is soft

The part that surprises people

Summer snow is why you’ll actually improve.

This is not a novelty. Soft, forgiving corn snow changes the thing that has been holding your riding back for years: fear of the fall. When falling stops hurting, your body stops bracing. When your body stops bracing, you can finally be taught.

IN FEBRUARY

Hard snow, real consequences

Ice punishes every mistake. Your body defends itself, and a defensive stance is the root of nearly every intermediate plateau.

IN JULY

Soft snow, low stakes

Corn snow absorbs a fall. You try the thing you would never try in February, and you try it forty times.

PLUS THE AIRBAG

No landing at all

Timberline’s airbag removes the landing entirely, so you can rehearse a spin until it’s boring, then take it to snow.

The loop

Five things that only stack in summer

STAGE 01

Soft snow

Summer glacier corn is the most forgiving surface in snowboarding. Falling stops hurting, so your body stops bracing.

STAGE 02

Small group

Four campers per coach. Your coach knows your name, your leak and your goal by Monday lunch.

STAGE 03

Airbag reps

Timberline's airbag lets you try the scary version twenty times with no landing consequence.

STAGE 04

Night video

Every evening we put your footage on the screen and find the one thing to change tomorrow.

STAGE 05

Next morning

You wake up and do it again — 7 days back to back. That repetition is the part winter can never give you.

The Mt. Hood Summer Field Guide

Eight pages: what the glacier is actually like, what to pack for snow-in-summer, the gear that matters and the gear that doesn’t, how a camp week runs hour by hour, and what it costs across every camp on the mountain — ours included, compared honestly.

If you want the coached version

We run two adult weeks up there

Exact calendar dates are confirmed with Timberline each spring and announced to deposit holders first. Both sessions run Monday through Sunday between June 20 and July 30, 2027.

“I was able to progress my riding, and at the same time, I felt safe because I knew I had great coaches I could trust. Morning exercises on the mountain and video feedback were super valuable… Riding Mount Hood in the summer, meeting new friends, seeing old friends, watching pros ride, and getting coached by the best is super special.”

Jimmy Rivas · RN, 37, Chicago

Two-time camper

Snow in July is real. Being good at snowboarding is learnable.

Get the free field guide

Eight pages. No call, no pitch.