LC snake run
December 29th, 2007 by conahan
The long-planned snake run connecting upper and lower Lincoln City skatepark is in progress. They tore out the tight tranny on the west side of the park and started the snake there. It runs down the hill at a fairly steep angle with four or five turns and there will be a big wall at the bottom to direct you back up the hill. It is going to be gnarly! Word is they will start to pour next week. Dreamland strikes again!
UPDATE: Expanded coverage at EPM
December 29th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
fuckin sick…..
December 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
holy crap….that’s gonna be nuts.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 29th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
AWESOME.
Been waiting for this one for years. You know it’s gonna be gnarly. Somehow walking between sections of a skatepark has never felt right.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Wow! I love snake runs, and I love Lincoln city….Wow.
December 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
that’s so fucking cool!!!!!1!!
December 29th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
pumping back up might gonna be hard
December 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
LC - fairly steep? Looks sick from here.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Are you sure that isn’t a bobsled run???
December 29th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
It’s super cool. Thanks to LC and the Dreamland folks for making it happen.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
That looks so sick!
December 29th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
MENTAL!
December 30th, 2007 at 1:25 am
wow. I didnt think that they would actually do it. I guess I just couldnt visualize it. sick!!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Yeah, I always thought that hill looked too steep. It looks like you’ll be able to work it as fast or as gradually as you want but there will definitely be potential for breakneck speed and giant launches.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:50 am
If Mark Scott didnt make things almost unrideable, there wouldnt be as many good skaters around as there is. Everytime Dreamland makes something 11.5 feet deep or something gnarly like that people gasp at first, then they step up to the plate.
December 30th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
This is one of those things that looks ridiculous on paper, or in person (before it gets built) but once it is finished it will be amazing. I’m glad they had the courage and audacity to go for it. Lincoln City is going to be one hell of a skatepark. I can’t imagine what it will look like in 10 years.
December 30th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
The other thing to keep in mind is the amount of concrete needed to span the distance between LC1 and LC2. This will make Lincoln City the biggest park in the state.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Sweet mother of god. How deep is the run out going to be?!
December 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I have not the gnar… still can’t wait to see it though! kerazee!
December 31st, 2007 at 10:37 am
Even I must admit that this is pretty much ballin outta control. I may even stop doing flip tricks on the bank long enough to figure it out.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:29 am
I just shed a tear of happiness.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:53 am
Unfamiliar with the layout of the park and it’s sections… The bottom one is the pool/bowls and stuff, I’ve seen that in pictures a few times, but the upper section.. is it streety? I don’t know?
Either way, I am definitely going to need to make a road trip to skate this thing.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:56 am
Looks like an Eastside DropKick and some 78a Grippins would be the right set-up for that run.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
It’s going to be fast.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
…get ready for the catamaran time trials this spring. Fast as shit!
December 31st, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I wonder if it’s going to be snake into something like Klamath Falls with a SUPER HUGE methamphetamine wall…or super huge crank wall so you crack back up the snake run, because I like to smoke and billow super huge puffs of white smoke. I like the way my hair tingles and the rush of such a thrill on four maybe three wheels.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
“cskate Says: December 30th, 2007 at 11:50 am If Mark Scott didnt make things almost unrideable, there wouldnt be as many good skaters around as there is. Everytime Dreamland makes something 11.5 feet deep or something gnarly like that people gasp at first, then they step up to the plate.”
Exactly. It’s not whether it can be ridden, but whether YOU can ride it. One of the many subtle yet crucial differences between Dreamland and the rest, especially non NW companies, in my opinion.
I wrote about this a few years ago for The Mag, but it bears repeating at celebratory moments like these: Ron Ploger, Lincoln City Parks & Recreation Director, has probably made the greatest non-skater contribution to skateparks of anybody. Nothing related to the LC skatepark complex has ever happened without Ron.
And you surely know by now it’s not as simple as just letting Mark do whatever he wants out there. There is bureaucracy involved in everything. Ron figures it out so Mark can explore the shapes in his head for our benefit. Raise your tallboy for Ron sometime.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I wouldn’t say Dreamland’s stuff is unrideable. Just the opposite. LC 2 and Klammath Falls are so perfect that little effort is needed to ride them. You just stand on your board and roll, you barely have to pump. On the other hand, the tallest walls at Northern CA parks such as Pacifica, Sunnyvale and Redwood City are so freaking hard to reach the top of. I was hoping that someday I wouldn’t have to take a vacation all the way up to Oregon every year. Now I have to go back.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I kinda thought that Red just did it and dealt with the fallout later…Kinda the Hailey effect.
I skated with a guy from Rhode Island a while ago and he said that they had a law on the books that said no skateparks could be taller than 4 feet, so they just made up for it by making everything vert with gnarly pool coping on it. You step up or step off apparently.
December 31st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I cant wait is it gonna be seylynn on steroids? im up for a challenge. I cant wait to go back to lincoln city especially after trifecta.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Can any one verify That this will not connect the parks?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I was told that it would come about twenty feet short of meeting. You should have the speed to do a twenty-foot transfer no problem though. I think there was also talk of a little side path.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 am
Oh that gap.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I totally hope it’s like Seylynn on roids.
I’d love to do some sweet fly outs outta that thing.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Lincoln City - America’s Gnarliest Park 1997
repeat award coming in 2008
January 6th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
How about compact dirt transitions connecting them where they fall short!! Tabletop? I agree w/ the repeat Thrasher Award. Or prob. Gnarliest downhill award is in the bag. The later addition of a lookout tower and a moat will finally be realistic! Uphill, how about a rope tow!! Go LC go!
January 16th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Word! Gonna be super sick!!
January 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
bennihana flyouts!!!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 am
SKATEBOARDING LIVES ETERNAL…
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
stay home and dont skate, skate and annoy sucks ass
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Sucks… your ass, but you said you liked it.
Oh sorry, did you really think this was some kind of secret spot that we are blowing out?
Shows over folks. nothing to see here.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Aliases are cowardly. Noone cares what a coward has to say. Sure it’s fun, but the web has legitimized sniping.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
What about backwards aliases?
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
his shoe polish heritage
January 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
for some reason my post from last week got erased. unless i was drunk and put it up in the wrong spot. anyway, here is the gist of it again…
the bottom wall is a catcher’s mitt, ala k-falls, but smaller. 12 an 1/2 ft tall in the center, tapers to 11 ft on the sides. about 10 ft trannies. pool coping on the catcher’s mitt, and some other spots. a little steel coping. lots of rolled over traditional snake run lips. lots of volunteer hours put in. the whole thing is monumentally crazy. some people are gonna get hurt.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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March 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
those local boys in Lincoln City rip! Kudos to Mark Scott, thanks heeps!