Hilltop Freestyle Bootcamp

Find your line. Own your style. Make it count.

December 28–31, 2026
Monday–Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Ages 8 to 17 years old

Price: $499.00

Four days. Four focused themes. Room to make it your own.

About the Camp

Hilltop Freestyle Bootcamp brings skiers and snowboarders together for focused coaching, creative practice, and progression on jumps, boxes, and rails.

Coaches from Alaska’s freestyle community provide discipline-specific instruction for both skiers and snowboarders, combining practical experience with individual feedback and encouragement.

Mornings: Pair the day’s theme with structured coaching, including demonstrations, specific tasks, and guided progressions matched to each athlete’s ability and readiness.

Afternoons: Combine individual choice with continued coaching and supervision. Campers pursue personal goals, apply the morning’s learning, refine their strengths, and connect familiar skills into purposeful runs.

Our Approach

The four days balance thoughtful decisions with individual progression. On Days 1 and 3, campers practice reading terrain, assessing readiness, and selecting features. On Days 2 and 4, they build on their strongest skills and identify an appropriate next step.

Throughout the camp, athletes develop the personal skills behind lasting progression: setting goals, managing nerves, applying feedback, supporting teammates, and recognizing when to practice, progress, or step back.

Community and Camaraderie

Freestyle is better together. At Hilltop Freestyle Bootcamp, campers build confidence and camaraderie by learning, laughing, and progressing as a crew. Between runs and over lunch, they swap stories, trade ideas, celebrate landings, and encourage each other’s next steps. Daily video-based movement analysis turns that shared energy into intentional learning: campers review footage, discuss what worked, recognize one another’s progress, and set individual goals. Learning from each other’s lines and sharing what works makes collaboration part of the coaching—and builds friendships that extend beyond the final run.

The Four-Day Progression

Day 1 — Read the Feature. Find Your Line.

Focus: Terrain awareness, thoughtful decisions, and technical foundations.

Use the transition from boxes to rails to develop feature awareness, thoughtful choices, and controlled execution. The morning clinic helps athletes assess approaches, entries, exits, and their own readiness. Afternoon practice reinforces appropriate skills while helping athletes recognize what is consistent and where more work is needed.

Day 2 — Build on Your Best

Focus: Strengths and individual progression.
Build on each athlete’s strongest box and rail skills, using rotational entries where appropriate. Morning clinics introduce tailored progressions in timing, balance, and positioning. Afternoon coaching helps athletes refine a strength or take a considered next step, developing consistency, creativity, and personal style.

Day 3 — Read the Jump. Plan the Run.

Focus: Thoughtful decisions for jumps and the links between features.
Develop jumping and spinning skills while learning to judge speed, feature suitability, takeoffs, and landing zones. Athletes explore how their choices affect control and how familiar tricks fit together in a run. Afternoon practice emphasizes purposeful repetition, self-assessment, and recognizing when to progress or simplify.

Day 4 — Switch It Up. Make It Yours.

Focus: Strengths, switch skills, and individual progression.
Develop switch skiing and riding, including appropriate takeoffs and landings, through tasks that build on each athlete’s strongest skills. Morning clinics establish individual challenges, while afternoon coaching helps athletes refine or extend a skill and incorporate it into a purposeful run. Campers finish with a clearer understanding of their strengths, their style, and what to work toward next.

Daily Schedule

10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. - Morning Freestyle Clinic
Warm up, establish the day’s focus, and work through guided tasks, safety concepts, and appropriate progressions. Coaches capture footage for the post-lunch review.

1–2 p.m. - Lunch
Enjoy lunch, warm up, recharge, and connect with the crew.

2–2:30 p.m. - Video & Movement Analysis
Regroup at the lodge to review the morning’s footage, discuss decisions and progress, and identify individual next steps.

2:30–4 p.m. - Coached Practice & Personal Progression
Apply the morning’s review and work toward individual goals within coach-approved tasks and features. Coaches provide feedback, film progress, and help athletes connect skills into purposeful runs.

Who Should Join

Bootcamp is designed for confident intermediate skiers and snowboarders with previous terrain park experience. Participants should be comfortable controlling their speed, using the required lifts, and following coaching directions.

· Skiers: Confidently link parallel turns on intermediate terrain.

· Snowboarders: Confidently link toeside and heelside turns without relying on falling leaf to descend.

Athletes receive discipline-specific coaching and progress according to demonstrated ability, confidence, and conditions. Each day’s theme provides direction; individual tasks and feature choices are matched to the athlete. Warmup breaks are incorporated as needed throughout the day.

What’s Included

· Four days of freestyle skiing or snowboard coaching

·  Structured morning clinics with a different daily focus

·  Supervised afternoon practice with individual feedback

·  Park safety, feature selection, and run-planning instruction.

·  Individual goal-setting and support for confidence, judgment, and independence

·  Daily lunch

·  Daily filming and video-based movement analysis

·  Access to the supervised lodge for lunch, hanging out, and daily video review.

Hilltop Freestyle Bootcamp is a separate offering from Hilltop Freestyle Academy.