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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Sea Otter trip finally

Posted by: Gully

So after Portland we were on our way to the Otter; before we got there though a few prime time events went down. First off, we stopped at this sick akte park where we met some crazy dude from Sacremento who had an obsession with the DC skulls on my bike.... At the same park we saw another kid getting gnarly on his skate:flip1 and flip2. Afterwards we stopped to meet some giant budday pal named Paul Bunyon and his blue OX; Babe, thses guys were big and useless...So we were stoked. Soon after, Ross dozed off to sleep in the shotgun seat of the van, so Ryder and I went to work, when Ross woke up he was not pleased. But he is tall.
After Ross ripped all the stickers off of his back I decided to make a pro-fit hat out of the stickers.......only stickers; it took some serious dedication and an 18 hour drive to complete it.
Our next stop was in Reedsport, with a sweet skatepark as well as one hell of a View..
Next we were off to San Fran; where the people are friendly and the breakfast scene is lively.. After breaky we cruised around to scope some zones to shred.....ya we came up short, so we test drove some new whips......... YA RIGHT! Everybody can tell we're little scrubby dirtbag Canadians.
Finally after all that crap that was sooo much fun we arrived at the Otter to see some puddles with piles of dirt in the middle. Then we went to the Sram booth where everyday we neatly placed our bikes. Props to the Santa Cruz and Sram guys for supplying the babe factor. After we scoped them, we went over to check out the new Sram Clothing line up called Sram Nation, the most impressive piece I thought was the pimpin' li'l rig modelled by the man; Boobar!!!
Later on back at the hotel, Ryder got creative with a Sram ride camp sticker and deemed Tyler Morland with a new name.
That Friday night we enjoyed the world premiere of "Roam;" and hot diggidy that movie was BITCHIN! You can tell that Danny Brody and Neil Meier sure enjoyed the movie and the Bar that didn't ID. haha.
Thats basically all the exciting stuff that happened at SeaOtter....besides meeting some random groupies from Aptos Cali, who were stoked on meeting Mike Reid (photographer), Ryder and Harookz. Email harookz for details. hahaha (pictures not included for the saftey of some people.)
On the route home we stopped at Spangler's house:1,2 and the spectators....due to the rain, it included myslef, we came to Cali for sunshien not the rain that made us feel at home. Neil decided to go swimming and then try to hit on some innocent folks. OH i actually took a picture of biking too; check out Mccaul getting gnarly in the mud.
Next we stopped in Portland again to shred some hot skate parks, dirt jump locations like th Grotto and the paper factory wall ride. Yoou can see Harookz shooting for his full length IPod movie on his little Canon Digi cam. It'll be sick, I promise.
Now we're home but heres some rad random stuff:
The New Cove DH rig, the Shocker
The new Hannah Hannah, no longer Hannah Stephens.
Ross' amazing pack job in the van.
The bag of wristbands being used as kleenex.
And finally Morland wanting to be like Ryder and Ross.
wow that wa sa lot of typing, bedtime
Lata Y'all
GG