NEWRY – Forget shopping and spending time at the spa. Saturday was pure bliss for 27 girls and women from Maine to Rhode Island participating in the second annual Roxy Snowboard Camp.

In addition to learning new techniques and terrain park tricks, or even basic snowboarding, the day-long event at Sunday River Ski Resort also featured a chance to carve and ride the slopes with Roxy professional freestyle snowboarder Amber Stackhouse of Salt Lake City, Utah.

“It was pretty sweet. I’ve seen her pictures in magazines,” 14-year-old snowboarder Rene Smiley of Lisbon said of the autograph-session opportunity with Stackhouse, 27, formerly of Portland and Sanford.

While Stackhouse chatted with Smiley and signed a poster, Smiley whipped out a cell phone and snapped a few photographs of the soft-spoken young woman who also co-owns, produces and directs Misschief Films, an all-girl, rider-driven snowboard movie project working with the world’s most elite female snowboarders.

“It’s exciting!” Roxy marketing and snowboard camps coordinator Jaime Donnelly of Huntington Beach, Calif., said of Saturday’s event. “Amber is one of the top five freestyle women snowboarders in the world. She’s been on the news, TV shows and in magazines, so it’s fun for the girls here to meet a snowboarding celebrity and role model.”

Roxy, Donnelly said, is the women’s division of Quiksilver Inc., the world’s leading outdoor sports lifestyle company and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of surf wear and other boardsport-related equipment.

Roxy annually conducts 12 all-women ski-and-snowboard camps across the United States and in Whistler, British Columbia, while offering demos of the company’s goods.

“Most girls end up snowboarding and skiing with their boyfriends or friends, so we just offer a fun, relaxed atmosphere for girls only. It’s a lot less intimidating,” said Donnelly, a 16-year snowboarder and retired professional boardercross racer.

Smiley said this is her third year boarding. She attended the camp with five other teenage girls from the Lewiston/Auburn area on Team Snomad, a freestyle snowboard group from Lost Valley Ski Resort in Auburn.

“Today I learned how to do a backside 180 and a half-cab, which is when you go onto your heel edge and pop a turn,” she said of the specialized degree-turns.

“It was great! I had a lot of fun,” four-year snowboarder Haley Nickerson, 15, of Eliot, said. “I learned grabs when you go on a jump and 180s. I worked on 180s at last year’s camp here, but I didn’t really master them until now. I’d definitely recommend this camp to other snowboarders.”

“Everyone was so stoked today,” East Coast Roxy scout Olivia Agusti of Gloucester, Mass., said.

Boston database management workers Patti Tobel, 43, of Rhode Island, and her friend, Leslie Duhamel, 39, of Greenwood, Maine, and Stoneham, Mass., both wanted to hone skills and gain better riding control at the camp. They’ve each been snowboarding for 13 years.

“I haven’t taken lessons in a long time, and I wanted an experience with other women, and instruction in a group environment,” Tobel said after the first of two 90-minute clinics. “I’m never going to be a good skier, and snowboarding is much better than skiing. It’s much more comfortable and fun, and there’s no age limit.”

The age spread Saturday was 13 to 54.

“Our average age at Roxy camps is split in two: half are between 30 and 50, and the other half, between 13 and 22. We’re seeing a lot of older ladies getting into snowboarding for the camaraderie and a lot of their kids ski and snowboard, and they want to be able to keep up with them on family trips,” Donnelly said.

Currently, the ratio of men to women snowboarders is 70-30, a ratio both Donnelly and Stackhouse said they hope to change through Roxy.

“Our numbers are definitely rising every year with product technology advances. We’re making boards, boots and bindings, and skis and snowboards, that are more specific to women’s anatomy, meaning they’re lighter, they have different flex patterns and more feminine graphics,” Donnelly said.

In addition to new friendships, the camp also produced a lot of smiles.

“All the girls were so excited to have a girl day. You know, we don’t always have to be in a spa,” Agusti added.