days, as we skated twelve parks that
were all within an hour of each other.
Some of the noteworthy parks were
Sechelt, North Van, New Westminster,
Surrey, and my favorite, Gibson. Every
park was good and all the people in
Canada were rad. Skating in Canada is
sick, but someone needs to throw up a
"no fly out of the bowl" rule.
We were stoked to learn that the old
Yankee dollar was worth almost fifty
percent more in Canada, and I was
extremely happy to discover that you
got ten cents for every beer bottle that
you recycled and thirty-five cents for
plastic Coke bottles. I grabbed a plastic
bag and cashed in on five bucks. It was
hassle-free everywhere we slept; no one
seemed to care. The small lakes made
for great bathing spots and good places
to bum smokes.
On our last day in Canada we ran into
a kid who ripped named Major Dave. He
took us to a huge ditch up in the moun-
tains with twenty-foot-high banks and
little transitions on the bottoms. When it
got too hot, you just jumped over to the
other side to take a swim-perfect. It
was a good ending to our little stay in
Canada, and we were stoked to be head-
Ben Krahn nosebones uphill
at the crazy pit in Talent.
Steve Gonzales switch pivots to
fakie at the Dent in Kent.
The fucked up Jersey,
barrier kinks at the
park in Kent, Washington.
ing back. When we got to the border the martial asked us, "How the
hell did you guys get in?"
Back to Seattle, where we hit a small park but were just too burnt
to skate it long. We had our first encounter with the Soap shoe
there. The Soap shoe has to be the lamest thing I have ever seen.
The dudes were taking it seriously, and when Joe asked them what
they called it when they "soaped" or whatever, they told us it was
called "styling." No comment.
Our trip was winding down as we counted all the parks we had
been to. I said twenty-nine, Johnny and Ben said twenty-eight, and
Joe didn't care. He was just skating 'em. We decided that before the
mission was over we had to hit thirty. Off to Yuba City and then to
Tahoe to skate their parks and the journey came to a close.
82 THRASHER
Sechelt, Canada
The dam in Vancouver, Canada,
Gibson, Canada.
This bluntslide
transfer has been,
brought to you by
Moses Itkonen and
the park at White
Rock, BC.