Here’s a sneak peak of an Elias Parise project documenting DIY action in the Pacific Northwest. From the tone of this clip it seems to be more conversational instead of heavy handed and dramatic, so you can set your docu-phobia aside. Think Fruit of the Vine instead of Dogtown and Z-Boys.

There’s a new skatepark opening about an hour and some change north of Seattle in a town called Sedro-Woolley. The grand opening is Saturday
October 13, 2012. Hey wait, that was two days ago! There’s a facebook page a grainy webcam. Who built this? There’s a Grindline shirt in one of the photos. Lots of construction shots in extended interval time lapse formatfrom Bob Rock.

– Thanks to John Aguilar for the (late) tip.

This week’s Shot of the Week is from Elias Parise, featuring Andy Adams with a backside nosegrab and Lorenzo Martinez toasting the action with what I’m sure is some sort of natural fruit soda in a bottle that he packed out out. Leave the spot cleaner than you found it folks. Orcas is one of my favorite parks but I haven’t been there sine my kids were born. I need to rectify that. Reports are that it’s still holding up, but is in need of a few minor repairs, and a coping block or two.

The days of the three event Oregon stop on the World Cup tour appear to be over. We’re holding steady at one official event again. This time at Pier Park on Saturday, with unofficial events in Lincoln City on Friday and Portland on Sunday. Saturday will also be a fundraiser of some sort for repairs at Pier Park, thanks to some dingholes who burned a couch in the bowl. Fundraising details are fuzzy, but the schedule of events are up on the web site.

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Hey, it’s the new park in Toledo Oregon. Built by Airspeed, strictly for the locals with beginners in mind. Not a so-called “destination park.” One high wall about 7-8 feet with a slight bend and cement coping. The rest is pretty much averages out to be waist high or less withthe ocaisonal higher spot. Metal coping of varying sizes. Included in the park is a bowled end that is 3 1/2 feet deep with simulated pool tiles and oververt! (?) Smooth concrete to skate on and funky castle looking forming made on the sides. This is not one of your typical wide open Oregon skate parks. It’s got a quirky design, that requires some effort to find the best lines, but can be a lot of fun adapting to. The important part is, all the locals were stoked. Well at least all the kids from nearby Newport were. Almost everyone we talked to was from Newport and said two things: The Newport Park sucks and they love the Toledo park.

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I was in Carnation Washington for a couple of hours. I spent most of the time at the park completely by myself. As I was getting ready to leave some people showwed up, including some Sleestakers. This is a small park. The shallow end is a little steep, the coping is not set consistently, and it’s a little to spread out in places, but it’s still fun.

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Well see, there’s this square pool in Portland, and here are some pics.

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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

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We took a chance on a dicey weather forcast under the guise of telling our significant others that they could go to IKEA while we skated. From I-5 North: Get off on exit 137 Milton / Fife. Immediately ffter you exit, turn left onto 20th stay on the same road for a mile or two to the 5 way intersection and stop light. Take a soft left (Milton Ave Way) uphill. Keep driving, you’ll see it on the right in a couple of miles. Milton is mere minutes north of Tacoma.

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On the way home from a productive road trip to Orcas Island we stopped by the Ballard Bowl thanks to directions we got from Sleestakers like Rev and Tim and a bunch of other’s whose name I can’t remember. Although we were exhausted, we decided to check it out since the Ballard Bowl sits on the endangered species list. The locals were cool, and not all that local. The session was winding down but I still managed to get a few pics. Last I heard, demolition is scheduled for January 2005. What a waste. Go ride it before it’s too late.