Building the Ultimate Off-Grid Skate Park in the Alaskan Wilderness | Summit Fest 2024

[@SpaceJeffry]

great video, awesome community. Alex is a legend

[@Noah.R14]

Yoooo!! I’m that kid that jumped onto my back and had the gnarly wipeout! Great skating with ya can’t wait to see you again at summitfest2025🙏🙏

[@offgridskater]

Haha dude that was crazy! Nice meeting you

[@Marina_Marauder]

💪 🫡

[@johnthomas2877]

I loved the speech Alex gave about skateboarding doesn't have to be about drugs and alcohol! I love this mindset! ❤😊 That's why it's thriving!

[@offgridskater]

Yeah sober life is so worth it! Especially as a skateboarder!

[@johnthomas2877]

Alex is a hero for all the local kids, and adults! 😊 ❤ So super COOL!!

[@kylehubbard4061]

Yup right on Alex ! Keep it up.

[@princequestly2218]

Mad respect to this guy and his family for doing this, Im sure the locals are extremely grateful. So rad!! ✌️

[@MatthewWright-y9t]

Like the message more youth need that

[@offgridskater]

🫡

[@javonnywalls147]

It’s cool to see the skate scene in Alaska get recognition

[@DrEaMsNoEviL]

Man this looks like an awesome time with cool people. Thanks for sharing!

[@gripalltraction]

Rad piece Jimmy!! So great hanging with you.

[@offgridskater]

Yes it was! Thank you !

[@BeastieFloyd]

I grew up in Tok, A.K., and we built some secret ramps in the late 80s to early 90s. There was a ramp built in Dot Lake at a children's home there and a ramp on base in Delta Junction. We also converted various sites for skating such as a steel water containment system they pulled out of the ground next to the volunteer fire dept. Since much of our time was spent learning in garages I glad to see someone building a facility like this. This was pre-snowboarding once came along and only a few others kept skating all the others went to the snow.

[@offgridskater]

That’s awesome, I gotta check out Tok one of these days ! When there is a will, there is a way !

[@broadwaytonyshorts]

Jimmy, seriously through all my depression it goes away watching you have such fun with you art and sharing it with other rad people makes my heart full! Love it

[@offgridskater]

🫶🏼

[@fattybourgeois1014]

This guy is awesome

[@MiloTheCat79]

Yoooo…that dude Alex is the man! And every time I see footy of people living this way…it really makes me question my own life choices. I could only dream of feeling as free as Alex obviously does. But as an OG skater, it’s super uplifting & inspiring to see that there are people out there who are living their true lives.

[@Thisbajabug]

LOVE IT....

[@redleo380]

Super cool for the kids and those grown ups that still know how to play hard.

[@johnthomas2877]

Years ago I met a really good white Alaskan skateboarder in Hilo Hawaii at our local DIY spot called Shaka Paka. Now I know why he is so good. The skateboard scene in Alaska is thriving! 😊❤

[@BeastieFloyd]

Might have been me?

[@offgridskater]

💯

[@swiftpiechop415]

No way I live in Hilo and been looking for a skate community since I moved from Massachusetts I have yet to skate Shaka near kings landing right ?

[@qm421]

nothing like building sweet jumps in the woods

[@offgridskater]

Definitely, the got quite the set up up there!

[@brandonalexander6972]

This place would be awesome to check out!

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

Skate community is so rad 🤙

[@offgridskater]

100%

[@organicpharming6181]

What an awesome scene!

[@ian_davidson]

Dudes living the dream! So cool 😎

[@offgridskater]

Definitely

[@aapoherlin8900]

hell yeah💯💯

[@djapvlogs]

Thanks for showcasing the scene!!!!

[@offgridskater]

My pleasure!

[@joeskull]

PURE FUN!!!!

[@sharonnielsen2359]

Hey Alex, Very impressive! Proud to be your auntie.

[@offgridskater]

He’s a good dude!

[@Seano23]

Hell yeah Alaska Love !🤜

[@hunter907akmayne]

So stoked you got to visit! Hopefully I’ll be in town next time! Good video really capturing the scene especially showing footage of the old spots and parts!

[@offgridskater]

That’s awesome thank you! Yeah I was hoping to meet you

[@DragoFrench]

Excellent video, I really appreciated the sharing and community aspects. I like your down to earth spirit Mr. Offgrid. Thanks for sharing and take care

[@offgridskater]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rocketnewton]

So rad!

[@steeezy9585]

This is amazing. Worth the my sub for sure.

[@offgridskater]

Awesome thank you and welcome!

[@nescafeandasmoke]

Alex and Katie, Jah bless. Great stuff Jimmy. 🤙✌️

[@offgridskater]

They are the best!

[@javonnywalls147]

We just got a new park in anchorage recently it’s super dope

[@MorningView]

So awesome this is a place I have to visit

[@offgridskater]

Definitely worth it

[@davidpope9231]

I'm an Alaskan sk8er that lives in Portland. 😎👍

[@offgridskater]

Ha sweet! Where you from in Alaska?

[@DREKOWICK69]

charging that rail on snow skate is wild

[@granthanifen1143]

Shout out aj he’s the sickest dude in Fairbanks and one of the best park building the state

[@offgridskater]

Definitely 💯

[@offgridskater]

Can’t forget about Josh Poe tho

[@johnwatson11218]

Have you considered buying scrap boats, hauling them up, restoring them so that you could rent them out as Air B&Bs at a location like this? Doug Stanhope talks a lot about The Shady Dell in Bisbee, AZ. Basically a small trailer park made out of old boats, that may no longer be seaworthy.

[@offgridskater]

That would be awesome

[@dooblies1]

Yo! Great video and spot. Does anyone know what kind of board and wheel setup that is at 4:30 and several later parts? With the orange wheels

[@offgridskater]

Yes that is an off grid skateboard it is my company and I ride for shark wheels. If you got to my Instagram right now I have a raffle and give away featuring these set ups: @offgridskater

[@jahlion808]

🤘🏻🔥

[@p0tp0ssum]

Oh Lord i miss the States! :D

[@biddle444]

I bet some mad wheels 105s would rip it up off grid up there. 😎🔥🔥🤘

[@offgridskater]

Haha for sure !

[@kevindavis8938]

Sk8 or Die

[@BertoBoyd]

Alex moved to Alaska? Dang… guess I wasn’t the only one who got fed up w Portlands shit

[@offgridskater]

Exactly

[@DCJiuJitsuGeelong]

This is what I like about about the internet, seeing people like this doing epic shit , so rad !

[@christoforos4126]

Yeah man, I grew up with Baker and BAM and Pissdrunks and that whole lifestyle really fucked me up in a lot of ways from a young age. I remember playing edward-40-hands during games of skate at like 17 years old. Certainly some good times were had, but it took me a long time to get out of drugs and drinking. Now I have two sons and there's no way in hell I want them going through that lol

[@offgridskater]

Yeah it “cool” at first but eventually it gets old and then life become really cool when you just live it without being inebriated through it.

[@MiloTheCat79]

@@offgridskaterYeah…it’s cool right up until the moment it ain’t…right? The moment the addiction kicks in…everything else in your life suffers. Including skateboarding. (At least IMO). Yeah…I remember skating on many drugs back in the day…& some of those times were hella fun…& maybe I even learned something. But in the long run…what I had to sacrifice in order to live that evil lifestyle…& the MANY negative consequences I had to deal with certainly wasn’t worth any of it..:-(

[@waza_alex720]

🩵🔥🩵🔥🩵

[@HumaneApproach]

Why it all seems like un-skate able lol