Mason Wilcox-Olton, 8, of Port Angeles casts a shadow on a high-banked curve at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield on Wednesday. (KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS)

Mason Wilcox-Olton, 8, of Port Angeles casts a shadow on a high-banked curve at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield on Wednesday. (KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS)

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Pump track tricks in Port Angeles

Mason Wilcox-Olton, 8, of Port Angeles casts a shadow on a high-banked curve at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield on Wednesday. The track, the largest of its type in the Northwest, caters to a wide variety of wheeled conveyances and the first in the country to have an adaptive track element.

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