PORT ANGELES — The YMCA Teen Scene has a few rules for its indoor skate park — no swearing, no vulgarity and wear a helmet.
The teens who zip up and down ramps and fly through the air on their boards in preparation for next week’s skate contest have learned the hard way that they will inevitably go home with a few battle wounds.
“Not everything’s as easy as it seems,” said 14-year-old Phil Thomas, a student at Port Angeles High School.
Still, Thomas and dozens of boarders come back day after day to perfect their tricks.
“I like this place,” said 15-year-old amateur Ryan Rieker, who started boarding five months ago and now skateboards almost every day.
“I just like the ramps.”
The ramps are a modest assortment of plywood that run up opposite walls of a dimly-lit warehouse adjacent to the Teen Scene, in a small gully just south of First Street at the west end of downtown.
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