Bellingham is so freekin’ full of cool, FREE things to check out.
And I’m not just talking about events — I’m talking about day-to-day expression sessions in, on, and around B’ham where stoked-on-life people are livin’ large. And you can step in there and take part in it, or you can get every bit as stoked sometimes just WATCHING.
That’s what we did tonight, right after we finished watching Hayden tear it up at the All-Comer’s Track Meet at Civic Field.
We walked over to the BMX Dirt Jump Park on the other side of Puget St. and found 8-or-so riders, young and old, taking turns launching big air off the series of dirt jumps.
There was a mom-n-dad-n-son trio learning and getting progressively more aggressive on the smaller jumps. There were two female shredders throwing down every bit as hard as the guys. And there were two riders, Corey Schmidt and Brandon Strong, taking turns launching monster airs and looking as comfortable doing it as you might be playing Frisbee in the front lawn.
I shot a few telephotos from the edge of the track, then worked my way under the apex of the biggest jump and switched to a wide-angle lens.
There it is, yet another bonus of Bellingham livin’: Any Joe off the street can grab a camera, stumble across some action, and pretend you’re on assignment for National Geographic Adventure.
Whether you’re into jumping your bike, action photography, people watching, or just being outdoors in the beautiful Bellingham summer… it’s all here for you. Get out and gitcha’ some!!!
