northwest and back 2013 part 1

I know its super late and its already winter.  But a lot has been happening and its been hard to find time and sit down and go through photos and video.  Anyways, I believe this is my sixth year in a row where I have packed into a van with my friends and headed to the northwest. There have been many different variations of these trips because as you do them you learn about things that you could do and then you learn about things that you want to do again.  This is the first year in a long time that we did not go to Orcas Island.  5000 miles in two weeks. 5 flat tires.  One broken transmission.  One broken exhaust system.  A staff infection. The list goes on.  Here are some photos from the trip and a video.

Chris was good at sleeping in the back.  We started as 3.  This was nice.

Transmission or the shifter broke and we couldn't go in and out of park or reverse.  I was ripping apart the steering column and trying to fix the problem in a gas station in Kansas at 1130 pm.  I was on my back on the floor of the van with a headlamp looking up into the bottom.  A girl came up next to me and made me look away from my work.  When I pulled myself out she asked if we had weed.  No offer for help even though there car ran fine, just a request for weed.  Made my night.

blowout number 1. Hunter was driving.  This happened at the 25 between denver and fort collins.

I love doorways.

We had to find a quick spot to take a dip. Here hunter and chris are enjoying the main ingredient in Colorado Koolaid

lifeguard

great looking van.

hmmmmm.  Corn flakes generator?

Golden Gate SF

Gold Shore skatepark.  We almost missed this one.  Pretty crazy how they got all this to fit in the area.

You are what you eat.

Always take a picture of this park.

Gotta get right.

I love this piss pot idea.

Goodbye Seattle

These things always look like dinosaurs to me.

The first round in a big tree.

nighttime on the beach.

softwater

stars.   More pictures soon.  And a video.

opening night at the bowlarama

A few years ago my friend greg told me that he had bought some property out in Lebanon and really wanted to build a bowl. I drew up an idea that incorporated his former miniramp into a bowl idea.  We started building while I had some time and Greg was traveling a lot for work.  We had dreams of this bowl being finished but we realized we had started a huge job.  Greg was very motivated to get his bowl done and seemed like nothing would stop him.  Greg was a lineman for electrical companies and was traveling for long periods of time and making his cash then coming home and putting it straight into the bowl.  I haven't seen such determination to make something work in a long time.  I went to Colorado recently and saw a photo online that showed the bowl almost finished.  Greg and his friends had really pulled together and made something amazing happen. 

Unrelated to the bowl my good buddy Casey has started an amazing tradition called the players ball.  This year was the second year.  The first year was his wife's surprise birthday party.  This year was his birthday.  I would be happy if this was the only night of the year that I go out.  Now, how is this related to the bowl?  This year I came up on an amazing vintage suit.  The party was not enough for this suit.  I felt like greg's bowl would be a great place to really take it out for a spin.

Casey and I at the ball.

My lady, Alyssa, and I at the ball.  Alyssa was the brains behind the next edit.  Took the suit out for a spin at greg's bowl last night.  Jason was kind enough to put some time behind the camera.  Sorry if your offended by any of the following material.   

suitforaspin from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.

Hermann's Hole the first stop on the way to Colorado.

Hermann's Hole

A few years ago I was given the pleasure of being invited to Hermann, Missouri to skate a large DIY project that my friend JP has been working on.  My other friend Ben has made a tradition of going on a Fall trip every september.  I had been racing to get my truck ready and I made the fall trip my deadline.  With Hutch waiting for me to get my camper together we finally left at 6pm that day.  When we got there we found out JP was having concrete come that monday.  With no real deadline to get out to Colorado I decided that I would hang around for a little bit and take part in the concrete.  Jason and Taylor even decided they would stay to.  I had a great time with my stay at Hermann's.  I finally got through all the footage and put a little edit together. AND Jason grabbed my camera and took some pretty awesome photos.  Thanks Jason.

Scott getting way out of that wall.

ladies, he's taken.  Shirtless backtail over the loveseat

a classic frontside 5 from Mr. Joe Carroll

Taylor using his front lip in an interesting spot.

The man of the hour.  Stoked Ben started teaching and I am sure he is killing it.  He's killing it in life and I'm glad I can call him a friend.  

Ryan got a flat spot.  Did you know you can fix those urethane harleys with an angle grinder.

JP hooked up an awesome spot just had to trim the front lawn.

yup

Jason likes skulls

The OG bowl

JP setting up for the pour.

Here comes mud

We didn't have much time in the direct sun and close to 100 degree temps.

The homestead.

My back yard for the weekend.

Colber

E.D.

HERMANNSEDIT from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.

fail trip

So fall is here.  This has become quite the tradition.  Every fall I get a phone call from Farmer Ben about the fall trip.  I normally get really excited.  This year was no different.  He said that we were heading to St. Louis this year.  They packed up Johnathans big red van and I packed up my little red van for a weekend out at Hermann's Hole.  Perfect weather, great accommodations (thanks JP), and awesome buds to skate with.  This is the first edit I have made on my iPhone and I realize the coverage was lacking, well, I like to skate more that film.  I haven't skated as much as I did last weekend in a really long time.  Thanks Ben for organizing the trip.

Fail trip from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.