Portland Oregon Skate parks

Stronger skatepark ( 6102 SE King Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222 ) located in Milwaukie OR is just outside downtown Portland OR. The all wood park is located in a mini mall and is pay to play per two-hour session. You need to go to their website and pick a specific time to skate so just don’t show up and expect to skate. Currently with Covid-19 they are limiting people in the park at 10 per session and you need to wear a mask. It’s worth a note that this park is geared to kids, think Scooters kids, and kids just learning. They also offer classes and sessions catering to learning the basics for kids, all girls skate, queer skate night, quads and inline skate classes, stuff like that. The park itself is not real big but I actually like this park specifically for the mini ramp they have. The mini ramp is about 5ft at the extensions 4ft all around and is about 20ft or 25ft wide give or take. It's in good shape and has nice copping that grinds well. The mini ramp is spined to a quarter pipe t...

So by now you should be aware that I am an old dude who is relearning to skate again after a 17 year hiatus, but what you may not know is that I’m about to turn 44…. Argh… Yeah…. Fuck that sucks... but I digress... So, with my impending birthday coming up that is putting me closer to my death than to my youth my lovely girlfriend decided to buy me a Powell Peralta Flight deck for my Bday as I have been talking about this deck ever since I discovered that they existed and have been dreaming about building the lightest set-up ever. And I think I got dam close.  The deck is a “ BISS Leaf Grasshopper, with a 249 shape, 8.5 . Per Powell it is Thinner than a 7-ply “it’s as thin as your phone”. It is strong, “more than twice as strong in tail break tests”.  Its longer lasting, “The epoxy infused, fiber reinforced structure is extremely resistant to breaking”. And it has “everlasting pop and higher ollies because of the greater rebound and snap” of the fiberglass structure. Yeh, yeh, ...