May-2024
New Perspectives Event Series Explores Inner and Outer Naturescapes Since 2005, Lexie Hallahan, Visionary and Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps, has been empowering women and girls with the transformative skills of surfing and offering her students the intimate knowledge of the Ocean, tides, swells and winds, which she calls the “recipe for a perfect […]
Nov-2020
A Dream Come True…at last! As the Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps for the last 16 years, one of my dreams has been to have OPB’s Oregon Field Guide cover our unique women’s focused surfing program. I reached out to them numerous times over the years to no avail, but I kept persevering, hoping […]
Jan-2020
The Surf Check. How to Survey the Beach One of the most important observations you can make when you start surfing is to understand how to read the ever changing conditions of the ocean. These include the ingredients you hear or see in the daily surf report forecast; winds, tides and swell. They also include […]
Jun-2018
When I first started surfing waves in the mid 80’s, it was on a bodyboard with swimfins. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, I was living at Rocky Point, on Oahu’s infamous North Shore, working and putting myself through college and I had never surfed waves before, having grown up in Oregon and being […]
Simple…immersion! Immersing yourself into a one or two day surf camp provides students so much more than a group surf lesson can. Spending an eight hour day in our Day Surf Camps, or two 8-hour days in our Surf Weekenders, allows women to connect and create new “surf sisterships”, become empowered with shared surf wisdom, […]
Apr-2018
My husband calls what I do (as the Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps) in creating the space and opportunity for women to learn, connect and excel in surfing my “big medicine”. He sees in me after every event the deep satisfaction, joy and passion I have for what I create and do. I feel […]
Feb-2018
My passion, since beginning NW Women’s Surf Camps in 2005, has always been about teaching women, of all ages, girls too, surfing. Knowing how it has personally transformed my life over the last nearly three decades, I wanted to share this transformative experience with women and girls here along the North Oregon Coast. I also […]