Thrasher Magazine

Seattle-based non-profit Skate Like a Girl has hosted the Wheels of Fortune (WOF) weekend for nearly a decade. Over the years, WOF has grown from a tiny one-day girls’ comp to a women’s skateboarding weekend-long festival, bringing the community together and becoming a way for any girl skater across the globe to make a name for herself. As a result, over 100 of the best rippers from around the world show up from as far as Japan, Brazil, Russia and beyond. Since everyone travels so far to attend, the Northwest’s own Skate Witches thought it would be a good idea to entertain everyone the day before the main competition with a silly skate-centric scavenger hunt; thus, the Witch Hunt was born.

At this year’s 3rd annual event, the action started with a meet up at the Lower Woodland Skatepark where an international crowd of gals dominated the space to warm up and form their squads. Around noon, everyone was called together and confetti was shot into the air to announce the official start of the day. All 18 teams were then unleashed into the streets to skate iconic Seattle spots, giggle uncontrollably and eat bananas in non-traditional ways. After Witch Hunting all day, everyone met back up at the Cal Anderson courts to turn in their score cards. After a quick skate session, the rain came so we all went over to 35th North skateshop for awards, food and a Gnarhunters pop-up shop. Afterwards, we capped the night off by watching the new Elissa Steamer Documentary, Timeless Areas by Beth O’Rourke. If you were there, have a look through these photos to reminisce. If not, just pretend you were there!

Lacey Baker took a quick nap in front of the crew prior to the launch of Witch Hunt 2018     Photo: Norma Ibarra


Fresh off knee surgery, Angie Crum gently caressed the rail with this smooth frontside boardslide     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Women’s skate legend Amy Caron used binoculars to spot fresh talent while recruiting her Witch Hunt team. Why so grumpy, sir?    Photo: Olga Aguilar

Damn, Lacey Baker was back at it again with textbook tré flips     Photo: Norma Ibarra

After back-to-back vert victories, Nicole showed she can slide the bars as well as the coping     Photo: Norma Ibarra

The crowd came together to hear important announcements prior to the Witch Hunt kickoff     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Seattle resident ripper Lexi Briggs bravely launched the confetti cannon, which officially marked the start of Witch Hunt 2018     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Stella Reynolds read the rules closely to ensure her team, Nannies With Attitude, was set up for success     Photo: Zorah Olivia

Team Crust Sluts devised their witchy plans while a jogger passed them by    Photo: Olga Aguilar

Team Skate Witches had a colorful vibe this year      Photo: Olga Aguilar

Team Dix Chix Trix Mix plotted their schemes of sorcery     Photo: Olga Aguilar


Nannies With Attitude posed for a quick photo with Seattle celebrity dog, Lady the Stray     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Vanessa Torres consensually touched boobs all weekend     Photo: Norma Ibarra

“2-4-6-8 who is really hyped to skate?” Team WERK huddled up for a quick cheer before hitting the streets of Seattle     Photo: Norma Ibarra


Team WERK Captain Alex White found the easiest challenges and scored the most points while her henchwomen looked very serious    Photo: Norma Ibarra

Challenge: “Whole Team shotguns a LaCroix.” Team WERK shotgunned Soleil. Is it a make? Judges?     Photo: Norma Ibarra

The first stop for a few of the teams were the dirt jumps adjacent to the skatepark, where the challenge was to complete some type of flip trick. Inside sources say that in a true display of sportswomanship, everyone was patient and there was no snaking    Photo: Olga Aguilar

Nora Vasconcellos flicked this earthy quarterpipe kickflip. She scored a few quick points for Nannies with Attitude with this dirty ditty    Photo: Zorah Olivia

Lizzie Armanto showed off a perfect buttboard drop in to score a few early points for Team WERK     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Nora reads some challenges for the next generation of team members, Stella Reynolds and Dahlia Lundquist    Photo: Zorah Olivia

Climbing up the face walls of giant ramps sure paid off for Nora during the “Leticia’s Lift” challenge, which was doing ten push-ups in your bra, followed by a tré flip    Photo: Zorah Olivia

Lizzie had no issue performing this sans-Vans backside disaster at Judkins Skatepark to add digits to Team WERK’s score     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Mariah Duran peeped the Lizzie clip, while Dayana and Marsha had a nice chat     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Team Skkrrrrrrrt!, comprised of Canadian and American she-redders, smiled for a quick groupie     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Dana Alwazani of Babes Brigade popped an ollie at Judkins Skatepark     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Kat Sy fearlessly dodged the haters to successfully manual into Green Lake      Photo: Norma Ibarra

Kat Sy also successfully added sticker durability testing to her ever-growing resume during the Witch Hunt     Photo: Norma Ibarra

She then posed for a new Tinder profile pic, which did not win her team any points, but definitely won some hearts     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Florida’s Fabiana Delfino powered through a varial flip backside disaster for Team WERK    Photo: Norma Ibarra

Jenn Soto kickflipped over six upside-down boards and was quickly backed up by her teammates, Breana Geering and Mariah Duran    Photo: Norma Ibarra

Minna Stess respected the “kids only” sign and slid one down the slide to score for her squad, Nannies With Attitude     Photo: Zorah Olivia

The Chelsea Peretti banana-eating challenge was a treat for Nora and Stella     Photo: Zorah Olivia

Reynolds ripped down the evo store five stair like it was nothing!      Photo: Zorah Olivia

Meagan Guy gets by with a little help from her friends during this bike hippie jump     Photo: Zorah Olivia

Team Sk8Kittens, led by the “baby daddy of Seattle Skateboarding” Marshall “Stack” Reid, hit Seattle’s iconic Garfield High School      Photo: Olga Aguilar

Japan’s Nanaka Fujisawa ollied this crusty 11 with ease!     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Some well-earned post-make high five-age!    Photo: Olga Aguilar

Jenn Soto did not perspire while performing this power move    Photo: Norma Ibarra

Lizzie scored some numbers for Team WERK with this cruisy carve     Photo: Norma Ibarra


These Foxy Ladies weren’t scared to shred the walls of Jimi Hendrix’s alma mater, Garfield High      Photo: Olga Aguilar

Allysha Le grabbed some points for Team WERK at Seattle Vert Ramp     Photo: Olga Aguilar

An upside-down Armanto stuck this invert for Team WERK      Photo: Olga Aguilar

Allysha and Lizzie put their bubble tea aside to boost these dueling inverts     Photo: Olga Aguilar


Nicole Hause got the last word in before biting her teammate’s style for the “Nora Challenge”—doing a backside air wearing purple     Photo: Zorah Olivia


Stella swiftly gained speed at Seattle Vert Ramp      Photo: Zorah Olivia

Team WERK showed their support all day long with fist bumps like these      Photo: Norma Ibarra

They also had gentle high fives on lock     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Team WERK from left to right: Breana Geering, Jenn Soto, Mariah Duran, Dayana Young and Lizzie Armanto      Photo: Norma Ibarra

Team WERK, baby!      Photo: Norma Ibarra

Vancouver legend Rose “Skater Rosie” Archer was down to get covered in Ketchup to squeeze in some last-minute points for Team WERK     Photo: Norma Ibarra

After getting kicked out of the store, Lizzie successfully swooned security into posing for a snapshot     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Kat Sy encourages her teammates to "skate spoon" while a bro in the background wonders where all the girl shredders came from     Photo: Norma Ibarra

The giggly gals of Nannies With Attitude stopped by the iconic Seattle Central double set to rack up some final points before calling it a day     Photo: Zorah Olivia

After seven whole hours of scaring the boys of Seattle, the Witch Hunt teams met up at the Cal Anderson tennis courts for the Sage Williams Memorial Skate Jam where Dayana put a hurting on this QP    Photo: Norma Ibarra

Your favorite skater’s favorite skater, Niki Washington, was ripping the courts post-Witch Hunt     Photo: Norma Ibarra

The Skate Witches, Shari White and Kristin Ebeling, collected everyone’s challenge sheets before heading to 35th North Skateshop to announce which team scored the most points     Photo: Olga Aguilar

The shop was packed with skaters and spectators alike eager to hear the results!     Photo: Olga Aguilar


Jai Ledesma shows off her fresh Skate Witches tattoo, completed stick-n-poke style by her Sk8Bae teammate, Jess Wu-O     Photo: Olga Aguilar

The lurker's corner was held down thanks to the likes of Sunny Smith, Lacey Baker, Vanessa Torres and Sam Narvaez     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Attendees showed off their love for rock ‘n’ roll with these hand gestures     Photo: Zorah Olivia

Two Legends, one photo. Elissa Steamer hosted a Gnarhunters pop-up shop and Alex White was there to support it     Photo: Norma Ibarra

Team Nannies With Attitude were crowned with pointy black hats for scoring the most points during their Witch Hunt     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Stella scared even more boys with the Zumiez Destroyer Award trophy, an all-black sawzall      Photo: Zorah Olivia

Nannies With Attitude rejoiced in their victory over the other Witch Hunt Teams while enjoying their new hats     Photo: Zorah Olivia

Who gave these kids power tools? The Skate Witches, that’s who     Photo: Olga Aguilar

Post pop-up shop, Elissa and Rachel nibbled on popcorn prior to the premiere of Beth O’Rourke’s sold-out screening of Timeless Areas. What an end to an epic day!     Photo: Zorah Olivia