Rounding out three gratuitous Tony Hawk posts in a row is this chronologically challenged bit on his appearance at the grand opening of the Missoula Montana skate park. Now that we’ve got an insider or two (Photo Credits: Top left – Bryan Southard Bottom – Chris Swan AKA Bone Man), I don’t have to poach pics from the newspaper web sites, but I will anyway. More pics and links, including The Grind That Never Was after the jump.

Did I say smite? I meant smiles on Montana. Man, when Tony comes to your town, better stop the presses and shoot that frontside grind. Especially if you have a Darth Vader helmet at your local park. What a great name for a newspaper – The Leader & The Advertiser. Also, please applaud the fake highligter marker effect.

Excuse me. The caption reads “…tries out a move…” which begs a few questions. What move did he try, and did he indeed like the move? Was he able to return the move without a receipt? Did he buy the extended warranty in case he had the misfortune to bust a move? Links and more after the jump.

MC’s roundup of declassified Hailey Idaho loop coverage.

No, it doesn’t. But try telling that to the kids at Beaverton Oregon’s skate park. These ramps were originally garbage picked, well donated by the X-Games. If you wanted to ride the vert ramp it usually meant you had to kick the kids off the flat bottom. These pics are from such a session, circa 2001. When the bottom rotted out of the vert ramp, local officials decided to replace it with more street obstacles made of concrete, even, I hear. Does anyone want to send in some pics of the new street developments? That would be great, mmm-kay? More after the jump.

Me take pretty picture. Nice. So far the only picture MC has declassified from the Hailey Loop of Death mission is this striking shot. Follow the link to see it in all it’s glory. It’s worth it.

Looks like I might have to add a loop category. As I type this, MC from Antigravity Press is probably still driving back from Hailey Idaho where he was part of Mark Scott’s entourage involved in the process of setting up and witnessing his attempt to loop the Hailey full pipe. This year he built an extension to try and get some extra speed. Word is he ended up carving into instead of hitting it straight and wasn’t able to carry the speed, basically doing the same thing that Zac McKenzie did in the much smaller Reedsport, with the exception of no broken jaw. Red is nursing an injured back but it doesn’t appear to be overly serious (?!). I don’t want to say Oregon’s less publicized version of Bob Burnquist is crazy, you’ll have to judge for yourself. I’m sure he’ll love that comparison… Top left is a cellphone pic from MC of the extension. The right side is wide angle shot of the pipe. It’s not a funnel like Reedsport, the lens just makes it look that way. I’d check SkateHailey.com for more possible coverage, as well as Antigravity Press when Mark get’s back.

He lives. More details from Port Orford Oregon field correspondent Shoey about the loop mishap.

He’s Zac “The MAC” McKenzie from Port Orford. He’s sixteen and destroys everything. He broke his jaw in two places, got a concussion and scored some groupies from the show. He’s all healed up now and back to throwin 3 foot frontsides in the deep end. Everyone give a big hand to the kid from OREGON !!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos by Abe Lambright. Check out an animated image of the fall after the jump.

I had some fun here even though the inept builders of this skatepark in Champaign Illinois applied the Jersey Barrier theory of transition to these bumps in the street course. Could have been awesome, but once you get over your initial reaction to wretch, you can actually have some fun on these bumps. I almost broke my arm being a smart-ass by trying to hit all the bumps one after another. More after the jump.

For the five people that Read SnA but don’t read Antigravity Press, MC has a couple of posts on Portland’s Pier Park progress and the new Woodland Washington bowl that is about 24 miles north of Portland. OK, I’ll just cop to not having time to write my own posts right now. I’m pissed he scooped me on the Woodland pics. I’ve been following the progress but failed to post on it. Duh.