On the arithmetic of seasons
Maybe twenty-five if you look after yourself. That is not morbid, it is just true, and it is worth sitting with for a second. Because right now you are spending them riding the same three runs the same way you did a decade ago.
One week. It changes what the other nineteen look like.
Do the sum properly. If you are forty-two and you ride six days a season, and your body holds up until sixty-five, that is roughly a hundred and forty days of snowboarding left in your entire life.
A hundred and forty. You have probably spent more days than that in meetings this decade.
And on your current trajectory, most of those hundred and forty will look almost exactly like the last hundred and forty: the same handful of runs, the same skidded turn, the same quiet detour around the terrain park, the same drive home thinking you really should get a lesson at some point.
Seven of those days — five per cent of what you have left — spent being properly coached, changes what the other hundred and thirty-three feel like.
The trade
This is the entire argument. Not that camp is fun, though it is. That a single concentrated week has a return across every day you ride afterwards — and that return compounds for as long as you keep riding.
One week in July on the Palmer Glacier, coached four-to-one, filmed every morning, reviewed every night.
Every one of which is currently on track to look like the last.
You do not go back to riding the way you rode before. That is the point, and it is the only justification for the price.
What people actually regret
Nobody who has done a week like this talks about the cost afterwards. What they talk about is the number of seasons they rode badly before somebody finally showed them what they were doing.
“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
“I was nervous about it being my first year snowboarding and possibly holding people back since I didn’t have a lot of park experience, but the coaches were great at breaking things down into stages for me to try and build my confidence and progress at a pace I was comfortable with. My riding improved so much.”Chris Rosa
How the week works
Summer glacier corn is the most forgiving surface in snowboarding. Falling stops hurting, so your body stops bracing.
Four campers per coach. Your coach knows your name, your leak and your goal by Monday lunch.
Timberline's airbag lets you try the scary version twenty times with no landing consequence.
Every evening we put your footage on the screen and find the one thing to change tomorrow.
You wake up and do it again — 7 days back to back. That repetition is the part winter can never give you.
Sessions
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.
Ride all seven days. If by Sunday afternoon you cannot do something on a snowboard that you could not do on Monday morning — something you name yourself on day one, in writing — we refund your coaching in full. You keep the video, the drills and the week. We have never had to write that cheque, and we are not nervous about it.
Deposit holds your week · balance due 60 days out