Aug 20th '09 - Porters Community Park Opening
20th August 2009
The community park is long smooth and flowing with kickers, rails, boxes and enough to keep everyone having fun.
The Park is open
Ben Comber on the butter table top
Waiting to drop at the top of the park
Gap to frontboard on the downflatdown
The flatbox at Porters
Ben spins over one of the jumps in the park
Ben Comber Frontside rock
Porters sits well between the full corporate fields of Mt. Hutt, those down south and the club fields that surround it. Big enough to always have friends around and small enough to have a relaxed atmosphere and the feeling that you are away from the world.
I had the most excited grommie I have ever met ask me about 20 times if I was ready to shoot him and his friends when setting up for one of the boxes, and the best bit is he killed it, he could definitely be a kid to look out for in the future I just done know who he is, and that's just the way it is at Porters relaxed but still pushing it.
The park is continually changing and upgrading so next time your up there it could be well different to what it was this weekend but by my guess it'll be good what ever it is.
Keep up to date with the park at
http://www.skiporters.co.nz/community-park
and get there the next chance you have
Words and photos by Riley Bathurst
LINK: www.skiporters.co.nz
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