Go Skateboarding Day

At about 10am with good weather and good friends, Gabe, Flip, Grant and Mike, Monday officially kicked off the first day of summer with a bang. Go Skateboarding day was a smash! 4 parks one private bowl, and a kick ass BBQ combined with amazing weather made this one of the best summer kick offs yet.

We started at Amazon, the oldest skatepark in oregon down in Eugene. Rough crete, small snake run and a lunpy gnar quarter in the back. It was a good start to the day!

We followed that one up with a slightly more updated, Emerald Skatepark. With one big pocket and nothing over 5 feet we stayed an hour or so.until Flip ground the 5 foot tall rail extending off one of the quarters there. burly fucker.

After that we headed out to Bethell skatepark. This park was super fun, this is the kind of park you want right in your back yard. It is almost completely a tranny park, while the trannies are pretty mellow throughout the park, there are a few challenging obstacles, like the 3feet of vert in the back pocket of the bowl. While this park is not very difficult to ride it would be amazing to have closer as its the perfect park to dick around in all day long.

We finish up with Eugene and head out to a park built only a couple years ago in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg skatepark is one of the best parks in oregon, from big bowl, to little micro mini ramp. This park has everything from jersey barriers to pole jams, everywhere you turn there is something to skate. We stayed for an hour or so there and moved on to the backyard....

Last stop of the day was at Trevors! The private bowl, beer, bbq session. By the time we got to Trevors it was about 8pm, none of us thought we had anything left after the 45 min car ride back. 2 beers later were droppin in and gettin worked. With dogs, corn, baked potatoes and a table full of BBQ fixins we hung until we couldn't walk pretty much. At least 2 of us are out a week now due to injuries, but a little heal time until our next road trip adventure is probably what we need.

To all of those that skated on Go Skateboarding Day... CHEERS!

RADNESS!