2004 Oregon Trifecta: Lincoln City

I couldn't make it to Lincoln City, so filling in for me is DANterra and his pictures, which kind of suck Dan, geez.
The nerve of someone scheduling a contest on a day I have to work...

Take it away, Dan.

Pabst and Hamm’s were the sports drinks of choice at this event, everybody from judges, spectators, and participants were enjoying these fine domestic brews. Lincoln City is the most fun and laid back park in Oregon (in my opinion) and this event was my favorite contest of the whole summer. Lincoln City’s park is always a great place to shred, have a few brews and a good time, this day was no different. This contest, the first of the Oregon Trifecta series did not disappoint. The warm up jam was rad and had some of the best skating of the day, there were a number of Pros, Ams, and sick locals ripping, criss-crossing lines and stoking the crowd. The Ladies were the first group to compete, then the Grand Masters, then the Pro-Am skaters ended up the day. Unfortunately I don’t remember all the names of the girls and I didn’t get to stay to hear final results but in my opinion first and second place was between Jessica Starkweather and Heidi Fitzgerald. These two skated the whole park, pulled airs, hit coping and had all the dudes drooling. Grand masters division was ruled by Mike Sanders, a local from Portland who ground the tombstone, pulled some nice airs in the deep and consistently pulled trick after trick. The Pro-Am division is when things really got heated, some notable skaters were Benji Galloway who skated a 2X6 board during warm-up then switched to a standard board and ripped the park a new one, Tim? Johnson who came out in first place for landing a blunt to fakie and nosepick on the tombstone and pulling a crazy alley-oop 270 stalefish over the hip into the deep end not to mention the his other 5-6 foot high airs over the hips. Mark “Red” Scott ripped as usual hitting lots of airs, handplants on the tombstone and doing it all at top speed. Ashland local Mason Huggins showed up and skated around with so much style and finesse I figured he could get first place, some of his run included 4 foot lien airs in the deep, kickflip indy over the hip, airs of all types, and lots of fancy lip ticks over the spine. A local ripper wearing plaid, I don’t know his name but my dog knocked his beer over, showed us all how to skate the park with huge airs, reverts, and lightening fast lines. All in all Lincoln City rules, the contest was super rad and it was a fitting start to a long weekend of beer and skateboarding. How about a Cradle carving contest next year?

-Dan

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