Ore-Kream Two from Logan Triplett on Vimeo.

A week long trip just for fun through portland!
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Logan Triplett
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shot on canon eos 7d redrock cinema package, and Sony Ex1 and letus ultimate setups.

Jarret ~ Irrigon

I don’t know why we plan skate trips around Montana for mid October, maybe it is because it’s the shoulder season or maybe it’s just because we prefer to skate in the snow. Either way, this year, our planned trip to head East and hit Great Falls, the new Helena Park, Butte, then Missoula had to be postponed. Mark Heyka was calling for temps hovering around zero for most of the state so we quickly switched gears and decided on a trip to Eastern Washington and Oregon. We had lofty plans to skate Spokane, Walla Walla, Pendelton, Irrigon, Richland and Yakima on a four day super trip with a crew of eight.

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But for now here’s a teaser. Hold tight we’re going to do some bloggy upgrading.

A bit of coverage from this years event in Missoula. More footage to come.

JUX FUN-TAGE EPISODE #4:Beauty and the Feast from Logan Triplett on Vimeo.

Mark Conahan of Antigravity Press wrote up a little piece on a roadtrip through Montana. You can read about it here.

Dan Drehobl on the cover of this month’s SLAP in Missoula

Jason Boyes in Butte

Brendan Rohan submitted some photos of the Butte and Dillon parks. Check them out here.

Butte Gallery
Dillon Gallery

Now someone hit us up with a couple Helena photos, and we’ll have all the parks in the state covered.

The Spirit Skate Shop Montana Tour video with footage from the entire Team skating parks and street spots on a 4 day whirlwind tour of the state in Whitefish, Polson, Missoula, Anaconda, Bozeman and Butte.

We woke in the morning in Dillon to about an inch of slushy snow on the car and it was still snowing pretty hard so quickly scratched the idea of skating Dillon for another day and made our way up to Butte, Montana and met up with J. Boyes en route from Billings, to skate the new Dreamland park there. It was still lightly snowing but the concrete was dry so we gave it a shot.

The Butte park is located East of the old historic district in a pretty run down area just on the edge of the Berkeley Pit (massive super fund site read more here). In fact the “Visitors Center” is pretty much right across the street. The land around the park is pretty much vacant except for some old mining leftovers. Guess I wouldn’t want to live that close to the pit either. The park seems pretty fun with a little more streety stuff than usual and two bowls. One large one and one Kidney pool bowl. The drain in the large bowl wasn’t working properly so it was filled with an eery green water, some trash and what looked like a dead rat. So we pretty much skated the kidney bowl and the street stuff. The street section had a step up, some various hips, rails and ledges as well as this big whale back bank wall thing that could be pretty fun.

From there we got some lunch in the old Historic District, which is really cool, and then decided we might as well hit Anaconda because it was right on they way.

Anaconda is another town that thrived on mining and then really died out once that ended. Right as you roll into town there is a big Smelter and a massive pile of black tailings. As we got into Anaconda it wasn’t snowing anymore but it was blowing about 35 miles an hour and couldn’t have been more than 38 degrees. That is what we get for doing a skate trip in Montana in mid October I suppose. The park in Anaconda is another Dreamland park built in 2005 I believe. It consists of one large bowl with a buch of small hip stuff in the shallow end and a street section that is basically two 3 foot quarter pipes with extensions and a table top in the middle. For being so cold we got a pretty good little session after warming up and then headed off to Missoula.

We arrived in Missoula at about 5:00 and it was sunny and relatively warm. We went straight over to the brand spankin new MOBASH skatepark and immediately got back in the groove. We had been skating all day at these parks in Arctic Tundra-like conditions with not a soul in sight. Now we were at Missoula skating in the sun with probably 75 people skating around the park. The Missoula park was definitely my favorite of the bunch. It was finished beautifully. It had a big bowl section with bank walls a cradle and deep area with pool coping. Then it had a kidney bowl behind that then a great looking street section that had some good flow between ledges and rails. The ledges looked to be finished in granite and there were fun bank walls all along the street section. And it’s Lit at night! Great park. I was too lazy to bring a camera along to that one so you’ll just have to trust me or go over to www.missoulaskatepark.org or do something like Search Flickr and check out some pictures there.