Name the one trick. You've had it in your head since you were fifteen.

Monday morning

You write it down. In actual words.

Not “get better”. Not “more confident”. A specific, checkable thing: I want to ride a boardslide on the flat box without stalling. Your coach writes it down. Everything for the next seven days is reverse-engineered from that sentence.

MONDAY

You name it, we take it apart

Every trick decomposes into three or four prerequisite movements. We find which of them you already own and which one is missing — usually it is one, and usually it is not the one you assumed.

TUESDAY–THURSDAY

We build the missing piece

Drills on soft snow, four campers to a coach, filmed every morning and reviewed every night. Boring, specific, and the reason it works.

FRIDAY

The airbag

Rehearse the frightening half with no landing, as many times as it takes for it to stop being frightening.

SATURDAY–SUNDAY

On snow, for real

You put it together on an actual feature, on soft snow, with someone filming so you have proof it happened.

The guarantee that only works because it’s specific

Named outcomes can be guaranteed. Vague ones can’t.

SUN DAY

The Sunday Guarantee

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.

This is why we make you write it down on Monday. A guarantee against “feeling more confident” is marketing. A guarantee against a named, checkable trick is a promise.

Common ones people name

Yours is probably on this list

A frontside 180, landed and ridden away clean.
A boardslide on a flat box without stalling out.
Riding switch well enough to not think about it.
A proper carve — both edges, all the way through the turn.

My first 360, off a real jump, on snow.
Hitting a medium jump without the panic at the lip.
Riding the whole mountain without routing around the steep bits.
Not being the slowest person in my group of friends.

Why a week can deliver a named trick

The Glacier Loop

The day-by-day plan above only works because it sits on top of five conditions you cannot assemble anywhere else at any other time of year.

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.

It works on people who arrive with nothing

Chris named his on a Monday

“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

“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

Camper, 2023 — first season on a snowboard

Sessions

Two weeks, summer 2027

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.

Questions

Before you name it

Am I good enough?

If you can link connected S-turns on both your heel and toe edge, you are good enough. That is the only requirement. You do not need any park experience — Chris Rosa arrived having never hit a box and it was his first season on a snowboard. What you should not be is a total first-timer who has never stood on a board; a glacier at 8,500ft is not the place for day one.

Am I too old?

Our camp is 21 and over by design — there are no teenagers in your group. Adult campers across Mt. Hood routinely run from mid-twenties to their sixties. The person you are picturing who will judge you is not there. They are at a different camp, and they are 16.

How is there snow in July?

Timberline sits on the Palmer Glacier at about 8,500 feet, and it is the longest ski season in North America. The Freestyle Training Center is built fresh on the glacier every summer — jump lines, rails, boxes, a halfpipe and an airbag. You ride in the morning when the snow is perfect and you are done by early afternoon.

What if I get hurt?

Summer glacier snow is soft, the jumps are progressive, and the airbag means you can try the frightening version of a trick without a landing. That combination is precisely why we run the camp in summer rather than in February on hard snow. We coach progressions, not dares — nobody is pushed into a feature they have not built up to.

What is actually included?

All-Inclusive covers lodging in Government Camp at the base of the mountain, coaching every day, lift access, and nightly video analysis. Coaching Only covers the on-hill coaching, lift access and video — you arrange your own bed. Flights, dinners out and rental gear are not included.

What if my dates change?

Deposits move once to the other session at no cost, subject to space. Full transfer and refund terms are on the checkout page before you pay anything — nothing is hidden until after your card is charged.

Name the one trick.
You’ve had it in your head since you were fifteen.