Squaw Peak Outlaw 2011

Zealous Longboards and the Utah County downhill crew would like to present the 3rd Annual Squaw Peak Outlaw

A Premier Utah Downhill Event

This is the third year in a row going down, attracting more attention and competition every year. Now,

the 2011 race is being stepped up and is exploding into a full-fledged two day event. Racers and spectators can most definitely be expecting freeriding, qualifying, racing, and even Jr. racing, as well as prizes, cash pot and an event T-shirt!

Registration is a $45 fee which pays for riders shuttles all day, both days for freeriding and racing, the event T-shirt and of course the prize money!

Freeriding opens at 8am on Friday morning, with qualifying runs beginning at 1pm.

Evening campus skate sessions in SLC every day for those commuting for the race!

Saturday morning heats begin at 9am, with presumable warm up and breakfast provided by Zealous longboards on site prior to racing.

After racing there will be a neat awards ceremony, followed by a quick In-n-Out pit-stop and rider's party in SLC to finalize the whole event.

Doug Tolman Photo

Two-time winner Calvin ‘Fifty-Cal’ Staub crossing the finish line! Obviously he knows how it’s done!

Chris Campbell Photo

Zealous founder Bryce Brady and team rider Trevor Ovenden hang over their boards with style through some of Squaws back to back turns

Blake Heiner Photo

MH Zak Maytum bumping some thug love for the rides up.

Chris Campbell Photo

Scott Hamilton is easy to spot while dropping into a sharp right hairpin.

Taylor Boyd Photo

Me and Alex Gonzalez sliding sideways for another sharp left hairpin.

Taylor Boyd Photo

Alex Gonzalez chasing Calvin, Joel Putrah, and Zak Maytum down and around Squaw’s countless curves.

This event will undoubtedly be the best yet if all goes as planned. Expect bigger and better things this year.
For more info or a place to stay, please feel free to contact me.

Much more to come…

Visitor: Chip Wood

Charles 'Chip' Wood lives in Portland, Oregon and came through Utah for a weekend to get familiar with some of it's rad. Chip got a tour of some of the ongoing Utah mountain runs and was even involved in what sounded like a pretty gnarly pile up down one of our fastest local favorites.
This is what Chip found himself riding on the final day of his trip.

2011 IGSA Bonelli US Nationals San Dimas, Calif.

Photo: Lee Eisler

So this was a sick event, where some of the Salt Lake locals went to visit Southern California, to hang out and skate with its locals. Bonelli was a cool environment for everyone to meet, mingle and catch up, but those who know, aren't entirely there for the skating and racing portion of the event. The wise ventured beyond the IGSA schedule and took advantage of other swervy Cali roads and rose early for some Good Morning Run's...

Upon qualifying I posted the fastest time in the Opens class with a 1:04.552, thus repping SLcityUT as number one. So, whatever their shit was, I repped mine hardest this day.

Sector 9 Gullwing A4L on top!

The next day was basically the same story, but in a bit more literal sense. During racing, I struggled to make my advancements in heats, but somehow still made it to quarter finals. I was smashing the bails hard, scrambling for my missing board, and kicking to the finish.

Calvin Staub, Micah Green, Mischo Erban Photo: Lee Eisler

Crashing every round, I raced quarter finals with a lead in front, I dove into the right turn with heavy speeds. Instead of gripping the turn like I was in qualifying, I exploded the hay leaving a trail of missing bales behind. I was passed cleanly by Mischo Erban and Jimmy Riha while Calvin Staub caught himself up in my carnage.

Zac Baca made a single advancement in open class, and with a qualifying time of 1:08.450, he ended up in 18th place over all.

For grom SL,UT’s this year, Scott Hamilton and Eric Albee repped it hard, as well.

Scott Hamilton, Unknown Jr. Grom (my apologies), and Eric Albee being steezy

Photo: Lee Eisler

After dislocating his shoulder in open, Eric proceeded through the quarter finals, getting snubbed out for advancement to semi’s.

Photo: Lee Eisler

Eric got a qualifying time of 1:16.066, and resulted in 11 in Jr’s over all.

Scott ran a time of 1:08.75.

Daniel Ralf Luna, Keith Henderson, Scott Hamilton

Scott went into the junior race strong, with a ^3rd position qualifying time. He battled his way through the bracket to land himself a spot in the finals, where a solid performance landed him a 3^rd place podium position. This effort helped keep the SL,UT podium streak going for its third year in a row!!

Shred 'til you're dead

The 2011 Halloween Mystery Outlaw

This is the 2011 SL,UT Halloween race, it is a mystery race.
The meeting place will be on the Northbound Redline Train LEAVING Rice Eccles Stadium @ 12:29pm. If you miss this train, you will NOT race.
Once on the train we will brief the race situation and discuss specific details of the need to know business. Until then, practice your skating steeze, because you will be expected to be able to skateboard to race.
On race day, show up with your skate, helmet, gloves and a good skatittude.
Don't be a chump, wear a costume. It's the Halloween race, so please be freaky styley.

Entry fee is $2.75 and a Trax ticket ($2.25). All cash will go into a prize pot for top racers.

Other than that, everything is covered.
Be there or be [].

Previous Halloween Outlaw Series Races

2008 Outlaw

In October 2008, the first annual Halloween Outlaw race was held in part of the SLUT Outlaw series.
The race featured City Creek Canyon, a moderate descent with smooth sweeping turns. An easy ride for all levels, but quick enough to put an edge on it. The best part of it was that it was closed to cars, the road was gated off and was exclusive to walkers and bikers. Unfortunately, that made for a hike up, but that sometimes became more fun than the skate down.

1. Micah Green
2. Zac Baca
3. Jacob Geerlings
   
   

2009 Outlaw

Colton Anderson and Connor Wagner

The 2009 Halloween Outlaw was held in the Avenues Grade yard. This race was a spooky one. Talk about the vibe of the event. Being an outlaw, there's always the sketch factor that it's going to get shut down, on top of the thousands of sub-terrain inhabitants casting spells and curses of disapproval from their graves.

L-R: Trevor Ovenden, Micah Green, EK Shaffer, Connor Wagner, Ian Anderson

The race was two-man heats double-elimination style with a one push start. That was to ensure a deadly close race down the following seven sharp 90 degrees. There were plenty of crashes, and bails, but in the end the energy was still alive and positive.

1. Micah Green
2. Trevor Ovenden
   
3. Connor Wagner
   
   
   
   
   2010 Outlaw
   
   
   

   Photo: Ky Tawhai Memory Grove

   This was the first of a mini-series, where the winner of the event was based off a point system, Racers gained points based on their rankings at each race spot.

   

   Photo: Ky Tawhai Podium L-R: Stephen McSweeney, Connor Wagner, Tommy Watson

1. Connor Wagner
2. Stephen McSweeney
3. Tommy Watson

More to be posted on the upcoming Halloween event...

Skating In SimpliCity

Allow me to bring you up to speed on the situation we have here in the city.

Photo: Ky Tawhai Riders: Trevor Ovenden, Zac Baca

Trax and Campus together is a keystone, and gem to the whole city community. Skateboarding is simply a choice here. It’s either you do, or you don’t. Anywhere you could need to go is downhill. Knowing there’s always another Trax station or bus stop below you, any errand becomes an excuse to get out and skate.

Rider: Drew Bolls, 3 Ring Longboards University of Utah Campus

Peaking at the very top of Trax is Campus, truly an urban downhill skate park. Featuring technical DH runs, intermingling pathways and sidewalks accompanied by countless switchbacks, early-grabs, stair-sets, and ongoing banks, parking lots and grass bombs, there are endless possibilities here, and too many ways to make every run count. This is a place that presents itself to you over time, with so much hidden potential. Whatever your discipline or mindset may be, skating Campus can teach you there is so much more terrain to be skated than just what your wheels can roll over.

Heavy Lurking

Salt Lake City, Utah has a very solid and well founded skateboarding community. Skateboarding is nothing new here. It's made it's mark years ago and has kept on rolling ever since. As this scene has progressed, skaters have taken advantage of the slopes of the mountain this city has built itself into, and naturally the Salt Lake skate community has started to literally roll faster.

This is the downhill skateboarding scene in Salt Lake City, Utah through the eyes of Micah Green...