rudolphThe owner of the camp is not the wisest. First example, look at their old park, pretty much trash, same with their "diggers". Second, the owner seems to not get along with anyone except for old racers. Third, besides the owner, there is even more of a lack of leadership or direction with the workers. I remember when this place was cool and more core than swindells but you had people like Nolan, Malone and Shea Flynn, and now the only solid person they have is Oscar Weary. I hate to say it, but it seems like summer camps on mt hood will never be as good as they used to be, especially with Weasel and dumb fuck Tyler running Timberlines park. Mt Hood lost a lot of its great vibes, it has turned into airbag camp with a bunch of rich kids, like the Fagan running around with no supervisor, while the coaches and counselors go and smoke a spliff or 10.
Seems kind of unfair to call Mike unwise, seeing as hes been running the camp since the beginning of hood summer camps. Sure he could have dipped harder in to the freestyle side of skiing, but the dude is 70? 80? Racing is all he ever knew and running the camp primarily as a race camp seemed to have been working for decades.
As far as the diggers go, aside from being a full snowboard crew they've been doing a pretty good job the past two years imo. Especially considering the minimal amount of money they put into it. Jack Reid had been building rails like a mad man and Im bummed that all his hard work is going to waste now that timberline took over the private parks. Definitely sucks that all the older ski coaches moved on though, Nolan and Maks were huge inspirations to me while I was there
**This post was edited on Jun 24th 2020 at 7:50:35pm
