Oakley Women’s Camp kicked off today in Hintertux, Austria with a star coaching crew of Gretchen Bleiler, Anne-Flore Marxer and Silvia Mittermuller. Each camper was handpicked from her application and interview by Oakley to participate in this 3-day camp which includes riding clinics, spa treatments and, of course, traditional Austrian lodge dinners. The sun is shining, it snowed a couple feet on the glacier this week and the park is perfectly groomed. Within a day, the 3 riders had the girls doing tons of new tricks from alley oops in the pipe to frontside 360’s over the rollers. And, of course, what would this European celebration be without an après dance party hosted by the dancing queen herself, Anne-Flore and a healthy stock of Gretchen’s new favorite drink recently introduced to her by Silvia, the lemonade/beer mixture, Radler.

Gretchen Bleiler: “Oakley did a great job of selecting these 20 girls. It’s been great dynamics in the group, lots of progression and a ton of fun and yee yahs.”

Anne-Flore Marxer: “Yee-hah!!!”

Silvia Mittermuller: “I’ve found out that I have just as much fun teaching someone else a trick they really want to learn as I did learning that trick myself. It’s amazing to see someone else succeed so fast with something that took you months to learn – and in the end it’s maybe even your advice that helped them with it! Coaching is awesome with such motivated girls! “

Alex Reiger (new Oakley European Snowboard Marketing Manager): “It’s a pleasure to see how much fun the participants and our riders have together and how motivated they work together. After this weekend, lots of girls will leave Hintertux super happy.” I think he means super Uber happy!!!

Liesl Holtz: (Oakley Women’s Manager) “There’s some weird looking meat here. Gretchen got brave and accidentally at a liver ball last night. That will teach her.”

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