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Ken Achenbach opened the first exclusive Snowboard store in the world The Snoboard Shop in 1980. It was through the Snoboard Shop that Ken created the Camp of Champions in 1989 on Blackcomb¹s Horseman Glacier. The Camp has since grown from 75 campers that first year, to a staff of 75 and 1,000 campers.

Ken¹s vision was to create a place where people of all ages, no matter their ability, could progress their riding, hang out with pros, ride contest-quality terrain and push the limits of freestyle snowboarding.

 

The Camp of Champions exists to push the bar of what's expected at a summer camp every year. Their mission is to make each camper feel like a pro, develop new park layouts, have the sickest rails, jumps and improve coaching techniques.

Ken was inducted into the Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to snowboarding. Co-Inventor of the Twin tip snowboard with Neil Daffern and currently the owner and director of one of the oldest snowboard/ski camps in the world. His roots in action sports also run deep. Ken¹s been mountain biking since it meant motocross bars on single speed bike. He was the top BMX Vert rider in Canada from 79-82 and has skateboarded since he could walk. All in all, Ken has been committed to this lifestyle since before it was ever given the term Action Sports.

Once a camper arrives in Vancouver everything except for dinner is included with Camp. Their staff greets campers at the airport with 15 passenger vans. The coaches and staff then give them the week of their life in Whistler before returning them at the end of their session to reality at the airport.

The Camp of Champions takes over the Aspens Hotel in Whistler and turns it into an amazing playground. With everything from Apple computers, pool, ping pong, and foosball tables, old school arcade video games and pinball machines, PS2, X-Boxes, demo rooms, movie rooms, video editing suites and more. The camper return rate is an amazing 41%. The Camp of Champions is the ultimate summer camp experience and campers return year after year because of this.

 

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