Gentle Snark
Green Lake's Lower Woodland Skatepark opens officially to the public on Saturday, June 7 at 9:30 a.m. This 17,000-square-foot park, designed by Wally Hollyday and built by contractor T.F. Sahli, is a concrete ocean of possibilities. It features a flow bowl and a street course, accomodates riders of every skill level and is actually picking up some decent reviews from those who matter, the skateboarders themselves.
By Geoff Carter | May 30, 2008
Sometimes you want to get away, stare at the stars and be one with
nature. And sometimes you want to be ensconced in concrete. For the
best of both worlds, head to a campsite near a skate park.
May 2, 2008
James Peters had no reason to believe that the beginning of this particular April workweek three years ago would be different from any other...
By Mike McQuaide | May 8, 2008
You know how it is. You're riding the big bowl at the Orcas Island Skate Park, rolling around like a human BB inside a giant cereal bowl, bending the laws of physics and centripetal force to your whim and, well, somehow it's still not enough.
What better way, then, to break up the potential ennui than by stacking three skateboards atop one another and — after gathering some speed with the BB in the cereal bowl thing — leaping over them. Flying, if only for a moment, like some mini-, non-motorized Evel Knievel.
By Mike McQuaide | April 26, 2007
A couple years ago, a TV commercial featured a daredevil mountain skateboarder flying off a mountainside with effortless grace. He then planted his face into a pile of loose shale and tumbled downhill. The ad cut to a shot of several Gore-Tex-clad observers climbing into an SUV and wondering aloud: "What was he thinking?"
Staring down a small hillside at Seattle's Woodland Park with a mountainboard strapped to my feet for the first time, I'm asking myself the same question.
By Andrew Engelson | September 26, 2002
