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Gravity Sports at World Cup Maryhill Festival of Speed

By Kate McMahon (OPB)
Nov. 12, 2015 10:03 p.m.
Producer: Kate McMahon   Videographer/Editor: Nick Fisher   Audio: Larry Johnson   Audio Post Production: Steven Vaughn Kray   Additional Stills: Collection of Maryhill Museum of Art, Sam Beebe    Additional Video: Patrick Switzer, Alex Tongue, Jimmy Riha, Sector 9 Skateboard Co.   Drone Videography: Lance KoudeleEach year, hundreds of longboarders and street lugers from around the world make their way to a remote hillside in Southwest Washington.
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It's the world cup Maryhill Festival of Speed - the largest gravity sports event in North America, which is held in a place most people have never heard of.... historic Maryhill Loops Road in Goldendale, Washington.
Maryhill Loops Road was the first asphalt road in the Pacific Northwest, constructed in the early 1900s by a man passionate about the Columbia River Gorge and building good roads. His name was Sam Hill.
Today, the road is ideal for gravity sports because it’s closed to cars and the pavement is smooth and grippy, which allows racers to handle corners at high speeds.
255 athletes from 23 countries competed here this year.

255 athletes from 23 countries competed here this year.

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