There was really no slipping this year, balmy temperatures, sunny weather and dry roads left this outlaw feeling pretty legit, except of course for the lack of hay bails and flag people. Everything was grippy, everyone was fast and people generally had there game faces on. The usual heavy hitters were absent, most of the local pro’s were off someplace on the other side of the world, switchback was in the middle of a move to the mainland, Banting among them, Wolf showed up a full day late.
Normally the man to beat, Nick had some old man problems and chilled on his street luge.
I stuck around for day one, didn’t try hard enough on Channel ridge, (who’s gonna beat that cannonball Laine down it now anyways, that kids all grown up and doesn’t just fall over for no reason anymore)
on the other hand, some others still manage to fall for no reason.
The big race hill (slasher) was clean, and everyone had a great time, the normal amount of group crashes in the first right hander let me somehow cruise my way to third place, not bad for for slacks and a nice jacket VS the leather bound draft trains. Day two I was back at my home on the big island, but I heard wolf tried his hardest and Laine managed another win on the fast fast hill, Danny Carlson won on the curvy one.
Proper safety gear only matters if you fall.
In the end Laine won overall, browntown came second by staying in the finals for every hill and Danny thrilled everyone with his stream at third.
Dat Podium.
At the end of the day, I really just go to Salt Spring to eat mussels, so we did that, then realizing that it was actually going to get chilly once the sun went down, we fled the island and I raced the rest of the series by following Nick Jean on instagram, that counts, right?
Dion’s gone to follow his dreams of living mid island and hustling part time jobs so he couldn’t make it, I wrangled Amy Brendon into sending me her Pic’s, stalk her on facebook if you wanna see the other 400 she took.
South Island Skate 