The annual Pipe to Pipe went down today up at Mt. Hood. There’s a snowboard portion at Timberline, followed by a skateboard contest at Windells Camp. I hit up the skate portion this evening, and shot a few photos, some of which should be in the Yobeat gallery tomorrow. I’ll ad that link when it’s up. Until then You can check out the story and full gallery here on Yobeat. There are two photos above: Rion Linderman, who unfortunately left his front teeth on the concrete in qualifiers (but won best trick for the day with a huge McTwist on the quarter) and Omar Hassan, who recently relocated from SoCal to Portland. Omar is boardsliding from the wedge in the background, around the bowl corner, to revert out. Smooth as glass.

Shot a street spot with Ben Graham tonight near my house in SE Portland. Originally he just planned to 50/50 the horizontal support of this fence out of a small bank below, but after he got that done he figured he’d move on to try and nosepick it. When we were down to our last slivers of light he managed to land it clean. Upon finishing the shoot Ben said “You better blog this.”

Jam format skate contests on parks with a variety of blind spots are deadly, and there were some very close calls, and some unfortunate collisions… apparently one at todays event at Battleground was even worse. But that’s the way it goes, and those things happen regardless.

On the whole, Trifecta is the way these things should be. No bullshit, just a good skate contest. With the Dew Tour about to go down in a few days, Trifecta was a refreshing reality check into what a skateboard contest is.

Saturday night Hurley (the main sponsor of the Trifecta this year) put on the “Pool Rules” art show at the Nike SB skate warehouse in Portland. Pool Rules is an exhibition of art from four generations of skateboarding, centered around backyard pool skating. Duane Peters, Rick Charnoski, Lance Mountain, Chris Ortiz, Christian Hosoi, Bryce Kanights and a number of others exhibit work and artifacts from the early days of skateboarding through modern times.

Tony Alva had the first production Alva skateboard on display. Salba had a number of cool objects of the past, including a piece of coping from the Pipeline, and tile from the original Combi Pool. The legendary Jay Adams also had some work on display. While I will say it wasn’t quite my thing, it was interesting to see what’s coming out of his head. Hosoi on the other hand had some nice line drawings, and Pat Ngoho had some really vibrant prints.

There was a ton of history in Pool Rules, and while it was only in Portland for one night, you can catch it at Hurley HQ on August 26th, and at ASR in San Diego from September 8-10th. Thanks to Brooke Geery for photos Hosoi and Jay Adams’ art… I slacked on taking photos, or maybe I was just in awe of the coping from Pipeline.