Surfin Dude!

January 1st 2010, Decided to start the year off
proper and woke up for some dawn patrol on
the coast with Hoagie, Emily, and Mike.
This was my first surfing mission.

So.. yeah... surfing, that didn't end up going down.
We got about an hour and forty five minutes out of
Portland and funny smelling smoke began pouring
out of the engine of Hoagie's house car.
Luckily, we had a professional grease monkey on the
team. It looked like we were stranded in Albany, OR.

We stumbled across a reason to come back if we ever got
back on the road (It was also wet.)

Mike rules! He went into a car parts store speaking the
language and got a tip on how to rig the car by taking
a screw out or something and we were back on the road.
Actually, we drove across the street to the mall and
gave the car a break while we took photo booth pictures,
saw an Orange Julius, harassed the Zumiez staff, etc...
You don't want to see that. Pretty lame.

Tested the house car by rolling through the espresso spot.
Mike didn't think we should push it so we had to find a
way to salvage our mission.

Step one to saving the day: we were in Oregon, of course
there is a sick skatepark somewhere in town.

Our hopes of it drying off (so we could share the one
board we had with us) got shut down when
it started raining again. Mike didn't care.

Rain picking up. Going for it of course.

Pouring rain, on some Cardiel shit.
(zoom in on the photo and peep the rain drops)

Back in the car house on some back roads, taking it slow.
Hoagie played us some Phil Ochs 60's protest songs
and we watched the hills roll by.

Car cabin fever set in.
We needed to get RADICAL!

The other Oregon sure thing- NATURE.
These trees were swaying in the wind like grass.

Everyone was so stoked.
We hiked (read- walked on a path) to a gigantic
waterfall that was indescribably powerful due
to it being rain season in a rain forest.

Happy couple. Somebody get a frame!

Looking off the edge.
Crazy mist.

Organic sustainable board, brah.

Behind the falls the sound was insane and the spraying
water felt like getting caught in a downpour.

Amateur caving.

So sick.

Nature Boy...

Due to the enginge troubles the defogger was out.
Hoagie was so excited for the drive back!

He got us home Ace Ventura style. Thanks dude!
We went back to home base, made good food and watched
Last of the Mohicans to honor our waterfall.
Not to bad for a virgin surfing mission on new years day.

Fall Haps

Been slacking on the blogage, school and living come first.
Here is a taste of the awesome stuff of the last couple months.

First off, lets observe mike demonstrating how to wild
out on Halloween.

First you shred Burnside in a thong and wig.

Then you kick it at a epic backyard party.

Peeps will probably be getting stoney.

If you find a hot tub and you are awesome...
you get in.

If you are mike you also dance.

Once you have blown up the party you book it
to the next spot to see a Ramones cover band.

Rock Rock Rockaway Beach!

So... that was Halloween. Of course it started raining a
bunch too, so we have found ourselves
skating indoors at dept.

Crew- James, Craig, Dom and Ben.

I get hyped after Halloween when all the
jack-o-lanterns start to get all deformed.
Looks super cool.

Oh man! This is like torture to walk through
on the way to school. Its not even done yet
and they have got a security guy just standing
in the middle of the plaza. What a waste.

Saw Built To Spill and they were rad. The new album is good.
Doug Marsh was wearing a home made George Clooney T.

Been doing a bunch of this too, but I am totally over it.

Thanksgiving! Spent the day with Mike Emily and crew cooking
and listening to david Cross. This is what a real tofurky looks like.

Lots of good food.

Good peeps too.

The other day went to the best skatepark
in Portland with Dom and James.
Somebody's been putting effort into it...

Toast is a lay back rocker.

Camp 09!

No way! The last day at camp I lost my camera,
definitely did not expect to see any of these photos again.
Then a couple weeks ago I got a call from Sanch Bear
who had found it in between the seat in his truck. Then
Jason and shelby brought it back to PDX! So hyped.

Totum pole under construction

The Mega Mini

Unger busts a coal

Bad Jackson

Skatecamp fire department

"HEY EVERYBODY!"

Luciani creates a lip slide while Geniffer creates a mural

Is that Muska cutting boards with the kids?!

Will displays the final product

Ronnie doing work for the week video

Lake hike on Thursdays were rad for the kids
who got hurt.

One night my cabin had an epic shadow animal battle

Duckage

This is by far the best graphic I saw this summer

Whats up deer?

Lake launch!

The mission to get to camp with Ben was awesome too.
Chilled in Oakland, bombed through the city and
haggled with a sketch electronics dealer to by a
fisheye. Then barged up to camp and headed straight
to the mega mini.

Thanks Eric!

Your a dog!

Last week I was skating in the schoolyard across the street
and all of a sudden this bulldog rode by. This dog was ripping!
The owner said he had not taught her, she is newly
adopted. She found his board and started riding around
by herself! Super awesome.

Bully skating from Matt Yula on Vimeo.

This is the first video I took with the new camera and it cam out with the weird border? I don't know... Isn't new stuff supposed to be improved?