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2007 Oregon Trifecta at Portland’s Pier Park- By Conahan and barely Kilwag<\/em>: Posted 8-16-07<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MC:<\/strong> The first thing I thought when I heard Pier Park would be one of the stops on the Trifecta was, \u201cNo way I\u2019m getting in that bowl with five other guys.\u201d Dreamland\u2019s 20 foot diameter full-pipe and 11.5 deep bowl with tile and pool-coping is big and fast and a collision in there would be no joke. The second thing I thought was that if I wanted to be the second guy over the mouse hole, I was going to have to get it done before the Trifecta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Starkweather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Julie Kindstrand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salba, about to bail while attempting to ride up and over the door. He later made it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Alba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher the lumberjack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Steadham. Seems like Itook this picture last year<\/a>. The color band is the CCD on my digital camera freaking out in the direct sunlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buck Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Duane Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buck Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Duane Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Duane Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The format was changed for safety. One rider would go at a time in heats of six. Both the Women\u2019s and Grand Masters\u2019 divisions were limited to 15 minutes of warm up and scored on the best of two competition runs. Skaters who didn\u2019t show up early were pretty much skating the bowl cold. It was definitely safer, though it was going to be tricky to get through the field before dark. Pier has no lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Duane Peters. He brought this onto the deck and rolled in without letting the hand up untill airborne.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Duane Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buck Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Schneer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnoski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnoski censors himself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dave Duncan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Does this frontside invert make Mark Conahan’s ass look big?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnoski’s ass, but look how high it is!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dan Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnoski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jon-Jon Bryan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The women\u2019s division was missing a couple of names from Lincoln City. The field was down to twelve compared to 22 the day before. Annie Sullivan, who won at Lincoln City, was out with a broken elbow. The bowl seemed to be a little too gnarly for some of the ladies. Locals Jessica Starkweather and Kim Richards would have an advantage but Julie Kindstrand showed up a couple of days early and her practice sessions paid off. She showed some good lines and a variety of tricks and that monster didn\u2019t seem to scare her at all. She was beyond happy to win the event, babbling into the microphone like she just got elected prom queen or something. That’s not a dig at her either, just the best way to describe how happy she was. It brought joy to everyone! Jessica took second for her gnarly grinds on the 11.5 foot walls and Holly Lyons took third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Grover is busting out, literally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Grover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Josh Sandoval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raven Threshay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pat Ngoho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jon-Jon Bryan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Charnoski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raven Threshay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raven Threshay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think this is Brian Patch. The sky writing says “Air Show,\u201d which is appropriate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Josh “Screech” Sandoval.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grand Masters promised to be interesting with a couple of old Upland Pipeline veterans in the mix. Duncan kept telling everyone that using both bowls and high pipe lines would be essential for a good score. Salba had no problem with that, he was aiming to be the second guy ever to skate over the mouse hole in the pipe. He had been working on it for several days and he got it done frontside four tries after his two official runs. I wonder if the judges counted that? He was ripping the bowl too. Salba got second. Winner Glen Charnoski and fourth place Pat Ngoho also showed up early in the week and had a few practice sessions under their belts. Steve Steadham, made his second Trifecta appearance as the ex-Bones Brigadier on deck but was feeling sick, it was amazing that he skated so well (11th). Buck Smith (second) and Duane Peters (fifth) were also ripping. Duane did invert reverts, layback rollouts and that 540 cess-slide thing and was overheard proclaiming this the best bowl ever. Watching Duane skate Pier Park was a real treat. You could really tell how he must have blown minds at his peak. heck, he was still blowing minds. Locals Mark Conahan and Steve Grover placed sixth and ninth out of the field of 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sergie Ventura.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Josh “Screech” Sandoval.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sky Siljeg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

42 skaters competed in the main event including several locals, amazing since supposedly everyone except the pad goons hate that big bowl. There were also several 12-14 year-old vert skaters ripping, another generation in the vert. Local Shane Bell became the first man to ride the 13+ foot line over the mouse hole backside. He aslo did it two consecutive runs in a row, and he was so stoked that his outward enthusiam may have provoked Benji Galloway to finally make it as well. Shane remains the only non-professional skateboarder to make it over that hole. Actually, he’s not even sponsored yet, but now he has intersted parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steev Howell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway in your face!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brian Patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway – Indy kickflip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just to show you that he didn’t land everything, Sergie Ventura.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Michael O’Friel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packy Fancher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jimmy “The Greek” Marcus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were some heavy hitters in town for the competition. Rune Glifberg (1st) and Sergie Ventura (2nd) have both performed in Tony Hawk\u2019s Boom Boom Huck Jam. Benji Galloway (3rd) has won a bunch of Trifecta contests in the past and was padded up and looking strong in the big bowl. 12 year old Morgan Burgess (4th) was astonishing. The kid was doing 540s in the 11.5! Sergie was doing airs seven or eight feet out of the big bowl! including one footed Japan airs, super tweaked alley-oops and 540s. He also did a cool alley-ooped disaster slide even though he didn’t have much in the pipe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rion Linderman skated all day with a porcelain mask on. It was hard to get a good exposure. I swear!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rune Glifberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rune Glifberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Willis Kimbel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Morgan Burgess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rune and Benji both went over the mousehole. Rune did it both frontside and backside. Sergie looked like he could have won it if he had ridden more of the park. Instead he seemed to ride the deep end like it was a half pipe. He went a magnitude higher than anyone there and was super stylish, but his focused riding hurt his overall standing. Rune rode more of the park and had a few more techinal moves thrown in. Benji seemed resigned to third. If he had nailed that Indy Kickflip things might have been different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rion Linderman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rune Glifberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benji Galloway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rune Glifberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sergie Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So some really good skateboarding went down, a lot of stuff we won\u2019t see again soon at Pier Park. The mousehole line fell to four different guys and several other skaters made close tries. A memorable day at the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official results available from the World Cup web site:
Pro Results<\/a> | Ladies Results<\/a> | Masters Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 Oregon Trifecta at Portland’s Pier Park- By Conahan and barely Kilwag:<\/em> Posted 8-16-07<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 Oregon Trifecta – See Also: Lincoln City<\/strong><\/a> – Battle Ground<\/strong><\/a> – Backyard<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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