Mt. Tabor Dh Challenge Results

Downhill:
1st – Billy Bones
2nd – Chip Wood
3rd – Tim Del Rosario
4th – Joshua Torres

Slalom:
1st – Robin Mcguirk
2nd – Jordan Huotari
3rd – William Royce
4th – Jon Huey

This Sunday we hosted Portland’s first (legit) downhill skateboard race on Mt. Tabor. The Skate Gods blessed us with beautiful weather for the maiden voyage of this race. Roughly 50 people showed up to participate in the downhill, slalom or freeride. And I think it’s safe to say that fun was had by all.

The first half of the day started with the giant slalom race. The track was set on the lower half of Run 1 on Mt. Tabor. Local slalom expert Skip Marcotte was in charge of the slalom race and he put together a very fun/challenging course. Everybody was able to get a in a few practice runs and the two timed runs before lunch time. The runs were all cataloged and the winning time was set by Robin Mcguirk who beat Jordan Huotari by about .4 seconds.

After a quick Pizza Party, provided by Hot Lips, the downhill racing started up. All riders competing in the downhill race had to adopt an “old school” style tuck. Basically this meant riding with your feet next to each other (at least those were the loose guidelines). Most people began to find their old school steez after a run or two and then the racing began. The heats started off as 4-man but by the end of the day they became 6-man. Many riders were looking fast and the heats began to get stacked as the day progressed. After several rounds of elimination the finals were set with Chip Wood, Billy Bones, Jon Huey, Joshua Torres, Robin Mcguirk, and Tim Del Rosario. The racing was tight in the upper section but Billy and Chip pulled out front and battled towards the finish line. It came down to a photo finish with Billy ahead of Chip by about a wheel.

All images were taken by photographer extraordinaire Dabe Alan. Check out the gallery of images from the event.

I want to give a big thanks to all the people that helped out:
Judy, Allie, Veronica, Dogeye and Jessie who were some of the best corner marshals I’ve ever worked with.
Dustin and Brian for holding it down on Team-Medic.
Sauce for shuttling skaters all day.
Jay, Garai, Chip and David for bucking haybales.
Skip for putting together a rad slalom track.
And Jp for helping with everything I forgot to do.

Also a big thanks to our generous sponsors:
Landyachtz hooked it up by throwing down $500 for 1st place!
Rip City Skate has always huge supporter of the Portland scene!

The Boiler Room
Hot Lips Pizza
Subsonic Skateboards
Venom Bushings
Sector 9
LongboardLarry
EastsideLongboards
Gullwing Trucks
SkateHouseMedia
Time Ship Racing
Coastlongboarding
Sin Cycles

Be sure and check back next year for the 2012 Mt. Tabor Downhill Challange.