It’s almost here! Can’t wait? Click the pic or follow this link way too many photos of the 2005 Oregon Trifecta. Rumor has it that Christian Hosoi might be one of the judges. I’m eagerly anticipating getting to see him rip up our local spots in between judging duties, aren’t you? It makes me feel like a dork that I’m that excited by it. In any case, let’s hope they let me in this year! After criticizing last years’ event on this web site I got an angry email from promoter Choppy Omega and a concerned phone call from Volcom big wig Remy Stratton. If Dave Duncan decides to call me out on the mic I’ll have to remind them of the three pages of positive coverage I got published in Concrete Wave magazine. Also on the prowl at the Trifecta will be Earth Patrol Media shooting for the upcoming documentary on female skaters. BTW – That’s Dave Reul at Lincoln City and Tim Johnson at West Linn in the photos above.

This post was originally static HTML, it was backdated and inserted in the blog. And yes, this does hurt my OCD! Can you believe I used to have to hand code this? I integrated the blog into this site in July of 2006.

So, they had this Skate The Mountain contest at Windells, which is this Woodward-type place near Mt Hood in Oregon. It was kind of strange because they had a decent purse – 2k for first place and a thousand for second – but it wasn’t promoted very strongly. In fact, Windells’ own web site made no mention of it. It’s like they didn’t want people showing up. In any case, it was a good time. Everyone was relaxed and riding hard. We showed up during the “Pro” qualifiying runs, having missed the younger kids and the girls division. I took some pictures in a very lazy fashion, and it shows. Some of these pics are not from actual contest runs, so sue me. Hey, it’s the interent. Who cares? Before the semi finals there was a best trick contest for $100 in the street area that I didn’t pay attention to. Also, I can’t remember all the names in the results, so I won’t tell you any of them*. Except Ben Krahn came in second. If you can help me out with any names for the photo captions, send an email (kilwag at skateandannoy dot com) and I’ll fix it. Try and tell me which page you are talking about (copy and paste the url). Other than that, the only thing I need to mention is that when the contest ended some guy on a crotch rocket made a big show out of revving up his engine and leaving in as loud and fast a manner as possible, which made it all more amusing when everyone drove by him on the way back west and saw him getting a ticket from the fuzz…

– kilwag

Stop the presses! New and improved photo captions and results provided by Tom “Wally” Inouye, with some additional help from Mike Estes at sk8pdxdaily.com who would like me to remind you that 17 year old contest winner Vincent Del Valle is from Seattle and Skates for DC. Scroll down to see the results. Tom also mentioned that this year’s event was put together on short notice, and next year’s event will be better promoted. I hope it isn’t promoted too well, because it had a nice local feel to it.

Skate The Mountain 2005 At Windells Results

Girls:
1st place Zea Page
2nd place Kristin Ebeling
3rd place Shalako Lee

16 & Under:
1st place Oudulay Pilauanh
2nd place Alex Dinwiddie
3rd place Mark Cooper

17 to 29:
1st place Tony Distrola
2nd place Andre Cameron
3rd place Collin Wright

30 & Over:
1st place Kirby Phelps
2nd place Tom Inouye
3rd place Jake Gaynor

PRO:
1st place Vincent Del Valle $2,000.00
2nd place Ben Krahn $1,000.00
3rd place Matt Beach $500.00

This post was originally static HTML. It has been backdated and inserted in the blog And yes, this does hurt my OCD! Can you believe I used to have to hand code this? I integrated the blog into this site in July of 2006.

Reedsport Contest and Super Loop Challenge 7/17/04.

The year was 2004. The month was July. The event was Reedsport’s first major contest. Complete with $1000 purse for the first guy to complete the loop. Actually, it was $1030 if you include the money that Steve Grover collected from the cheapskates in the audience. The contest was long but fun. They even took a break for the town parade which must not have been very important because they didn’t even block the whole road for the parade, just one of the lanes. After the contest wast over (Wait, who won?) a bunch of rippers showed up that would logically have done very well had they the desire to compete in organized sports. Team Airspeed Skateparks took home a well deserved shop trophy. Nobody made the loop but Joseph Heffner came amazingly close twice.