The sun is back in Portland, so it’s time to get outdoors and shoot. I went out to ride/shoot with Ryan Sher and Ben Hucke this past weekend. Ben spent much of the rainy months driving around scouting for spots, and he was nice enough to [reluctantly] let Ryan in on them as well. The wallride gap Ryan’s hitting (above) is one of Ben’s secret rainy day spots.

After an early session at my favorite skatepark in Oregon, West Linn (the photo of Ryan below is at West Linn: Pocket air lookback over the gap from right to left), we headed off to street spot number one: A sign that you had to hop up onto, then it became a big wedge you could theoretically launch off of. Ben fast-planted off the top of it after he had figured out the speed/bunnyhop ratioand dodged traffic. Big hop up, followed by a somewhat springy sign. After that it was off to the wallride gap (above) which Ryan did several times. If you follow any of us on Twitter (and you should) you already saw pictures of the gap. So good, but the hot asphalt was no fun to be laying on for the photo. Ben found a few other fun little nibbles, and fired out the Ruben-style wallride below. After that we had to call it quits do to the heat (yes, heat in Oregon).

Here are a few of Ryan Sher, from the same Kink “Destroyer Tour” trip in 2000 as the Dave Young photos I posted the other day. Ryan was referred to as “Kickflip” on most of this trip, since at the time he was really into crankflip tricks. Somewhere along the trip he picked up the Misfits dolls, which we used as a prop in a similar photo which ran in the Ride Magazine story. I think the one we used was an icepick on a sub-box (I don’t have the issue in front of me to confirm that).

These days Ryan is the man behind Subrosa and, like me, lives in Portland. You can check out a more recent shot of Ryan after the jump.

Above are a couple shots from a few months back shooting around Portland with the Subrosa team. Ryan Sher on the left, Vince Kroff on the right.