With all that crazy pow it feels good to see some spring slush and green in the background: Lj Strenio, John Kutcher, ARC rider Steve Stepp, Banks Gilberti, Parker White show us some skills up at Windells ! 4 edges or 4 wheels, either way.

A literally fresh edit, filmed By: Jake Strassman, Alexandra Erickson, Tyler Malay, Paul Heran, & Jacob Durham

If you’ve spent the summer at Windells at Hood before, you’ll know what part-time digger full-time ripper J-Norm is capable of on a snowboard. If you haven’t seen him ride, sit back, click full screen and watch the jib master destroy Windells. Oh and in-case you were wondering, Justin rides the Dopamine.

Cartel team rider Justin Norman aka J-Norm dropped amplid HQ a little email today to let us know that his new website is live. J-Norm.com features heaps of well shot shred pics of Justin putting his Dopamine through all sorts of grimy street jibs, captured beautifully by the likes of snowboard paparazzi Tyler Orton and Drew Smalley. On a dedicated videos page, there are also oodles of edits from Justin’s summer at Windells with some kink rail bangers that will have you wondering why you haven’t seen more of Justin in the big magazines. Check out Justin’s handy work at J-Norm.com .

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video courtesy of 4bi9

Watch ARC-riders Tom Wallisch and Steve Stepp rockin’ Hood last week …

(Blurry Photo courtesy of my iPhone)

What brings an eclectic group of young adults to the Oregon wilderness for the summer? Is it a love for hiking, hermitism, or crystal meth? Hardly. The members of Da Hood House are here for several reasons; to shred the brown summer slopes of Mt Hood, to exterminate the gypsies in nearby Government Camp, and to prove once and for all that freeskiing is taking over the fucking world. Windell’s Ski and Snowboard camp was gracious enough to host a huge crew of skiers as full time coaches. Instead of living in employee housing, 11 of us rented a three bedroom house in Rhododendron, Oregon only a few miles from camp. Our house is neatly tucked away in the Oregon woods on John Lake Road and hosts an array of wildlife. Here in Oregon, we’re blessed with a plethora of restaurants and food choices: Subway and Dairy Queen. Although the restaurant options are almost overwhelming, we’ve been enjoying 3 meals a day at Windells. Free food is the cheapest of all food. I’m sure you’re wondering, “Isn’t is uncomfortable housing 11 people in a 3 bedroom house?” Shut up. We’re doing it. And if it wasn’t for the mass of skiers living here and their incredible brain strength, this website would have never been born. In our title, we have skillfully replaced the word “The” with “Da”, thus proving our intelligence and our roots as true street gansgters.

Da Hood House will be following the lives of [look at the names on the site] for the next 2 months while we’re coaching at Timberline. We’ll be bringing you hilarious antics, photos, videos and tons of other content. We’ll also be holding an open phone line for visitors to call in and drop their comments, input and requests. Keep your eyes open, your drinks down, and tips up….ski season just started.

-Steve Stepp, Liam Downey

CHECK IT! www.dahoodhouse.com