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Despite predictions from doomsday naysayers, summer camp is soldiering on at Mt. Hood. As ski camps conclude, the WAC properties have been able to migrate higher up the mountain, where the glacial snow fields\u00a0are still intact, despite Mother Nature’s best attempts at destroying them. \u00a0Public Park is now located at the top of Palmer, and the High Cascade\/Windells Lap park is, in fact, lap-able from the Palmer mid-station (although you do have to dry load.) Morale is surprisingly high\u00a0and the extra hiking has everyone in prime shape this summer!<\/p>\n
That said, things are certainly different from the usual Hood experience – as in all our years we’ve never seen the snow this low. But don’t panic. It’s still snowboarding. In July. And on Monday, July 20th, Bode Merrill invited all his friends and teammates to gather for the Merrill It’s only a matter of time before some kid gets this math question wrong and blames DDay Snowboards. Ben Bilocq.<\/p>\n Summer heat and serious shredding can take their toll on a quarterpipe – luckily High Cascade employs a staff of strapping young men who know their way around a rake.<\/p>\n Josh Dirksen rips the hip.<\/p>\n According to the measuring stick behind him, Erik Leon is going 25 feet out.<\/p>\n The attendees wait for the official scores to be tabulated, while Bridges is probably just checking World Star.<\/p>\n Enjoying the show with Brendan Gerard, Kaleah Driscoll and Ben and Gabe Ferguson.<\/p>\n Speaking of the Fergusons, they started off the finals with this doubles routine, nearly colliding\u00a0on landing. Don’t worry, they survived and celebrated with a brotherly hug that melted our cold, black hearts!<\/p>\n If there’s a box on the top of the quarterpipe, Shane Flood will handplant it.\u00a0 DJ Matty Mo kept the energy up with lots of classic 90s jams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some\u00a0walking was required to get to the quarterpipe… gulp.<\/p>\n And as usual, Red Gerard was showing all the old people how to snowboard.<\/p>\n Jess Kimura and Scott Stevens were there! Looks like Jefferson still has some snow –\u00a0how do we get a rope tow up there?<\/em><\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n RESULTS Women: Crab Grab and Cobra Dog Individual Awards – While it was a forced departure from the classic mini pipe comp of yore, the verdict at the end of Bode’s comp was this: Snowboarding needs more quarterpipe contests. And as for the snow level at Hood – don’t worry, one normal NW snow fall year<\/a> and it will be like this summer never even happened. But if you are trying to ride, you definitely\u00a0want to get up there soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The real dirt on the snow + some medium sized QP action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,2194],"tags":[2175,2666,722,2667,1705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91496,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76877\/revisions\/91496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mini Pipe <\/del>Medium Quarterpipe Invitational. (Medium, because mini quarterpipes just ain’t that cool.)\u00a0Tucked between the rolling dust hills, the 12-15 foot quarterpipe was carefully crafted and maintained by the HCSC dig staff, who kept it in prime condition for three heats of action. In the first two heats, riders judged each other\u00a0to determine who would make it to the finals and then those who didn’t make it were tasked with determining the winner. In the tradition of other great QP contests<\/a>, Pat Bridges was there to help Bode oversee the action and inspire various handplant innovations. Other stand outs in our hearts and minds included Ben Bilocq, Erik Leon, Red Gerard, Nils Mindich and the Ferguson brothers.<\/p>\n![\"benbilocq\"](\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/benbilocq-640x480.jpg\")
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\nFirst \u2013 Ben Ferguson
\nSecond \u2013 Erik Leon
\nThird \u2013 Scott Blum
\nFourth (The Scotty Arnold Award) \u2013 Bode Merrill
\nFifth \u2013 Nils Mindnich
\nSixth \u2013 Scott Stevens
\nSeventh \u2013 Louif Paradis
\nEighth \u2013 Scotty Lago
\nNinth \u2013 Red Gerard
\nTenth \u2013 Gabe Ferguson<\/p>\n
\nFirst \u2013 Stefi Luxton<\/p>\n
\nBest Grab: Erik Leon
\nBiggest Air: Ben Ferguson
\nBest Flip: Bode Merrill
\nBest Plant: Scott Blum
\nWorst Bail: Chris Grenier<\/p>\n
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