Five weeks of running Gromfest competitions at one of the best skate and snowboard camps in the United States was a blast, but now it's over.  As the summer comes to a close there's only one thought in my head...what's next?

 

  While we wait for me to figure all that out it would be good to recognize those kids and teens that dominated this weekly competition.  They had to have all the skills...rails, pyramids, step ups, bowls...there was no feature that wouldn't be used.  If you want to ride for a living nowadays you have to be well-rounded and that's exactly what Gromfest tested.

 

  Each of the 1st Place winners and Coaches Choice candidates will automatically get to advance to to the finals next summer at Whistler.  As for those that took 2nd and 3rd?  We hope that they'll consider competing in a Gromfest comp this next year or submitting an audition tape (see www.gromfest.org for more details).

 

  While we wait for the next Gromfest comp however here are the winners of the Great Northwest Gromfest Summer Preliminaries 2006...

 

 

Judges Choice - Garrett Vick 

 

Judges Choice - Andrew Trovato