Photos: Brooks Fritz

After skating the park in Harrisburg until dark we  got back on the road and headed to the coast. Jamie’s girlfriend Tracy had a friend that lived close to Toledo and didn’t mind if we crashed there for the night. Our real plan was to go to Lincoln City  but we got word that there was a all girl skate jam blow out thing going on there. Now at first thought when you think of a bunch of girls that it cant be bad thing. But then again if you know skate girls then you know why we avoided that scene. So with a good nights rest and waiting up while everyone else slept in me and this guy Alqueda Chris took a nature walk around the property before heading to the local skate park.

Flower must be gay. It’s purple.

Hippie Chris points out some quality berries.

Dont panic! It’s organic!

hu huu hu huuuu hu wood…

Breakfast

Address: City of Toledo, 206 N. Main Street, Toledo, Oregon 97391

• Town population: 3,680
• Who built it? Airspeed Construction
• Random Fact: The City of Toledo received a $200,000 Oregon State lottery grant in 2004.
• When was it completed? June 2005
• Lights? No
• Pads? Not in-forced but recommended.
• How big is it? 7,300 square feet
• Is it free? Yes
• Is it fun? Yes. Another fun park with good flow, tight tranny’s and unique features. Only complaint is that there is not much pool coping. But the steel they used is fat and gritty.
  

like for example this neat feature.

Or this one?

Side one

Side two

Hot pocket

Randomness

Dan Drehobl pivoted to fake right here

After the nature walk Chris was ready to get at the tightest pocket…

This front side grind is harder than it looks.

Have a good weekend and don’t forget the Keystone Lights! -Brooks

PHOTOS: BROOKS FRITZ

After skating Rolling Freedom skate park for a while and jumping in the river we got back on the road and headed north toward our destination: Seattle. Unfortunately We hit some traffic but the smart retards we are had some sodas to keep us occupied. Traffic wasn’t letting up but got word that a town called Kent on the way to Seattle supposedly had a Grindline park and sure enough the town did. Kent is located in the Green River Valley in King County and is recognized as an outlying suburb of the city of Seattle. As you know I love that hippie nature shit and the impressive Mt. Ranier can be seen from the park. Kinda cool.  So, the park is alright. Me being the big pussy I am these days the giant pipe and super bowl with steel coping didn’t really tickle my fancy. I preferred the kidney bean and the decks surrounding the park. Don’t get me wrong, there is a good time to be had here but once again in my eyes the park could be so much better.

Seriously. That’s a lot of concrete…

Address: 11525 SE 240th Street, Kent, WA 98031

Contractor: Grindline

Square ft. 17,000

Bring your nannies or you better have some fresh legs. Or just dont jump off.

For bikers or the pad wearing enthusiast.

Fun for a few minutes.

The back of the pipe

Willlis Kimmel too lazy to pump around this giant piece of shit would just roll in straight to bean plants off the back

“Street” Features surrounding the park.

Really? Seriously, just build some bumps.

This thing is actually a lot of fun though.

Only thing it could use was a ladder or some stairs. I get tired of climbing out after a while. That’s probably because I have toothpicks for arms.

Sloan 5.0

lip slide

Andrew Adams, stalefish

EXTREME CAMPING!

After skating Kent we got some ass backwards directions to the lake and we ended up driving around in circles for about 45 minutes. So we bagged going to the lake and headed to straight to the camp site where every one is pro at one thing…

shot gunning.

Cant go wrong with some Doobie Brothers

Dinner time. Time to grease up those aching joints. See ya next week. -Brooks

Tags: full pipes, grindline, Jivaro Wheels, Kent washington, Road Trip, seattle traffic, shrunken head, skateparks, sloan, Willis Kimmel

PHOTOS/WORDS: BROOKS FRITZ

This I guess this week it’s going to be the Monday Fritz files…. Just to keep you on the edge of your seat!

In part one last week we left off with a day under the bridge at Burnside.That was a fun time besides having a minor case of the airplane legs. But that’s just another excuse to make myself feel better about drinking beers and shooting photos instead of skating. Our NW host Ryan never seems to have a hard time skating so I was fortunate enough to get a few decent photos. Our agenda was really no agenda. The four of us (Ryan, Davey, Luke and myself had 5 weeks to do whatever wherever. We just knew we had to be in Seattle to fly home after the 5 weeks were up. After spending a few days in Portland hanging out at Jamie’s house started to get antsy and decided to head to the coast to meet up with the youngest old man I know. Mr. Cobra Kyle Gallagher.

This isn’t Kyle. But Mr Richard Lipz himself in the flesh… Enjoying our RV’s luxury living quarters on the way to that one skate park with the giant butt hole.

Dont drink that… It’s 1,200 hits of liquid acid….

Kyle arrives… We had a session at Mcminville.

The vagina hole bowl at Mcminville is great for photos but isn’t the funnest thing to skate. For a change everyone was skating the street course.

Ryan Willians, aka BOOHJAH..

Low to high ollie to truck bash.

Luke was so hyped on the session at Mcminville he decided to get a tattoo at the local shop in town so he would never forget it. What could be better then some flaming dice?

After Luke’s episode of “Oregon Ink” we went to a friends house where his driveway is funner to skate then your local skate park. And that’s just the cement that was left over from the basement.

Proper tailblock.

Sweeper

Amarilla

Our friend Derek Plourd decided to meet us at Bainbridge.

5.0 revert

And the crowd goes wild!!! Luke loves Bainbride. And why wouldn’t you?

Board meeting…

Skateboarding can be fun.

After skating Bainbridge all day everyone was pretty hungry. So we decided to catch the ferry over to Seattle to get something to eat. And what could be better then a bag of Dicks!

Have a good week. -Brooks

On Monday, November 17th myself and Alex Davis left for the west Coast. The following update of our travels is a little late, and I apologize for that but even the best laid plans go bad from time to time. We left about 3pm on Monday and dealt with snow most of the way to Chicago, as I had not slept in over 24 hours I blew it and didn’t have charged batteries in my camera until the next day. The drive to Chicago was nuts, there was a seven or so car pileup right in front of us that we somehow avoided while driving through Cleavland, there was a man standing in the middle of the highway in Indiana that we missed by about two feet, at seventy miles an hour.

We arrived in Chicago about midnight however and managed to get some shut eye.

The following day we went and hit up Uprise Skateshop, and talked to them for awhile. While Alex and myself were gung-ho about skating, it was extremely cold out and we quickly got over that idea. After saying goodbye to our generous hosts we hit the road for Omaha.

-Alex realizing that it’s too cold to skate in Omaha

We got a nice little hotel and made plans to roll out early the next morning so we could hit some skateshops and the sick concrete park in Omaha. However the bone-chilling cold that had ruined our Chicago stay was also present in Omaha. We left after about ten minutes of the coldest skateboarding I have ever done and made way to the B C Boardsports skateshop which was located in the mall. After we hit the shop up we decided to do some tagging.

-Some gas station in Colorado… or was it Nebraska… either way, midwest is boring.

-It is so flat you can see forever

After our nice little sticker session we decided to hit the road and set up camp in Denver for the next few days. The drive through the midwest is boring at best, and aside from a few gas stops flew past. Although we did meet a dinosaur…. Check back soon for Part Two, which may actually have skateboarding!!!

-Dinosaur meeting