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Arvada Skateshop Appreciation and Foundation Spot

Saturday was the Square State Skate’s Skateshop Appreciation Day at Arvada Park. I got there about halfway through and mixed some skating with taking some photos. There were a series of best trick contest on different obstacles, and I only caught three of them in photos…

After the stairs/rail challenge, there was the snake run challenge, and I wish I had some photos of that to show… always so awesome to watch people skate that thing. Can’t wait til next week’s King of the Snake Run. Fun times, though, and super big thanks to Brian and Neil at Square State Skate and everyone that’s involved with the core shops throughout Colorado.

We finally made some moves, and ended up at a foundation spot with huge DIY potential.

First a little shoot with Fuzz and Jack…
rad.

Someone pulled this gross looking couch out of a weird dumpster type enclosure, and dragged it over to the spot. I wanted to get some photos of people skating it since it looked so awesome and disgusting…

(While everyone else skates over the couch going down, Ro skates it going up)

gotta love Glen’s BGPs. Always can count on them. yea Glen!

And that’s that. I struggled with hurricane on this ledge for probably an hour and a half because Fuzz said he’d give me his new Market coozie if I did it. In the end I’m not sure that I quite deserved the coozie (although there were two that were basically it), but as soon Blaine said he’d take it instead, I scooped up my prize. After this we said goodbye to about half the crew and then got some food at the Dark Horse. Yet another awesome skate day.

Fort Collins with the Lowcard CrownVic

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Just like every trip to Fort Collins, this day was SO much fun. In general, I’ve been slacking on taking photos, so I might actually have to write a little to explain what’s been going on. My semester ended Friday, May 10th, and it turned my weekdays into 14-15 hour works days towards the end. But once I turned in my 75 page final project (after taking a 7-hour final for the same class), I was done. Odessa and I did happy hour in North Boulder, visited her garden plot, played one of the best dart games ever, and met up with a crew, including Freddy visiting from SF at the Waterloo.

The weekend already was off to a good start when Jack and I met up with Fuzz, Freddy, John, and Darrin at Crisis, and made our way to the new Thornton park for a super kook-filled session. After some food, we had a short Northglenn session before heading to Fuzz and Leslie’s for a night of BBQ, cornhole, and backyard camping. When we got there, the Lowcard crown vic had arrived, with Magnethead, Dan Nazzareta, and Cousins aka Avocado Man. Super fun night.

So that brings us to Sunday and the Fort Collins adventure. Sleeping in a tent doesn’t usually encourage sleeping in too late, and I’m pretty sure we were on the road by 9am, with only a quick stop at Jus Burritos for breakfast. We met up with Taylor, our guide for the day, at the newest of the 5 parks in Fort Collins, Water Way. For the most part, I skated the whole time, but snapped just a couple photos…

After Water Way, Taylor took us to the full pipes. My first time there…

Next up was Spring Canyon, where I finally sat back and took photos instead of skating. The Fort crew definitely knows how to shred a bowl…

We took a break to visit Market, eat lunch, and then a session went down on this front porch quarter pipe…

And that’s when we left the house decided to be the worst/dirtiest skate house ever. Congrats guys! We made our way to Edora after that, and then finally to Northside to skate until the sun went down. I stopped taking photos and just skated, so no more images to show. Such an awesome day. We camped in Fuzz’s backyard again this night, and then had another amazing day the following day, with a long session at Roxborough and a night session at Arvada. So rad! Thanks to everyone involved for making it such an awesome weekend!

Baltimore Trip

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The Ridge… Joey, front blunt.

New spot for me… Jack and Joey both killed it here…

The Pirate/Privateer festival in Fells Point…

Jack, kickflip to dock Jack, ollie to sketchiness

Carl and Jack

Styles, halfcab flip

Carl, pole jam

Baltimore Trip in phone photos

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Our trip began at 3:30 am. That’s important to note when you see this first photo (waiting for the shuttle in the Pike’s Peak lot at the Denver airport…

Somewhere near Dallas TX…

The next morning in Hampden…
First breakfast was at the Golden West.

Then off to the Ridge… Joey was there.

We skated a street spot, then off to Frederick for Katie’s wedding…

Then next day we ended up at the Pirate/Privateer festival…

We did a little shopping, and I added this next photo because (if I’m correct) my parents ski with Art Blakey’s son…

Later we checked out the Boston Street rails…

Brewer’s hill..

And got to skate Tide Point in between security guard rounds…
Jack put in some effort. And broke two boards. Woo!

Next up was Johnny Rad’s with Joey and Christie…

And finally some more Natty Boh’s…

Back in Hampden…

Then to Style’s neighborhood to meet up with her and Carl to skate the Ridge…
… and a quick stop at Carroll park too.

Then back to the airport for the trip home…

And around 1am, we arrived to my car…
So much snow. The drive home took forever. And the next morning, Jack got the pleasure of clearing snow of the car yet again…

Yay for spring in Colorado!!

Spring. (in between snow storms)

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Crisis Montage at Broomfield

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We made this clip for the town of Broomfield…. to show that skaters can take pride in their park and clean it up. It was at a time when the town had decided to not turn on the lights at the park, because they were frustrated with the constant trash all over the place. Fuzz spoke at the town council meeting, and convinced the town officials that we would take care of the park. And convinced them to turn the lights back on so that, especially at that time of year, people could actually skate after 5pm.

Plus, I actually did a nose slide down the big rail. Woo.

Almost spring skate sessions

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The first set of photos is actually just a Sunday lurk mission. Skating was our intention, but it was crazy windy and Jack and I aren’t big fans of the wind. So we went on a mission to find wonderful spots that Jason had described to us. And took a lovely little walk in the process…

The ditch turned out to be quite an interesting adventure. Maybe skate it some day? I have a feeling Jack will be on that.

The next session was on warm Wednesday a few days after the lurking in the ditch. I met up with Jack and crew in Longmont and watched Cameron and Josh skate a flat gap. Afterwards I played around the 2 flat 2 at the spot, and then Jack and I had a short session at the Longmont ditch. So rad…

Despite how nice and warm that Wednesday was, it was snowing by the weekend. Oh, Colorado weather. Even though it was snowing and freezing cold and terrible weather for skating, Glen said he was skating a parking garage with Neil and Brett and Jack convinced me to come skate. It was fun (besides my frustration fits for the day) and wan’t too bitter cold in the garage.

The very next day was warm and completely dry (typical Colorado) and I had the honor of tagging along with some of the Meta crew for awhile. I stuck to taking photos while Jack and Josh skated the spots, Cameron filmed, and Sean chilled…

The following Friday, Jack and i talked about going somewhere new and different than the usual places. So we ended up driving out to Ft. Morgan to skate a metal mini ramp at the park and then this awesome spot…

After this fun spot in Ft Morgan we drove back past the disgusting smelling sugar factory and two depressing feedlots with endless black and white cows filling the air with waves of cow shit odors, saw the sky glaring red from a wild fire in the distance, and eventually made our way to Brighton, where we stumbled upon the best street pole jam imaginable. Jack took some photos of me and filmed one, and then we headed to Crisis to celebrate our long day.

And the last session for this post was from just a few days ago on Wednesday. I had a midterm the next day so didn’t want to leave Boulder, but it was supposed to be the last nice day before an early spring snow storm. So Jack and I headed to this spot…

After Jack took some photos of my backside ollies, I started trying to learn hurricanes. Jack joined in, crushing some switch hurricanes. Fun times…

And that’s all! For more photos of me actually skating (I swear I’m not always behind the camera) you gotta check out Jack’s blog.

Birds and sunset, Coco’s visit, skating Boulder spots, Wallace and Grom’s Birthday, Pueblo trip

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Sometimes I bring my camera to skate sessions thinking I might take some skate photos. Instead, I actually skate the whole time and only pull my camera out for something like this…

One Saturday, Coco came to visit!

So much fun!

Jack and I have had some short Boulder skate sessions before the sun goes down (can’t wait for daylight savings to be over). Here’s some photos of Jack…

Wallace and Grommit’s 7th birthday was on February 13th. I planned a birthday photo for them (which they hated), and Jack helped…

Poor kitties. They hated every minute of this… but 7 years! Getting old (sort of).

Last weekend I headed down to Pueblo with the Nullers to avoid the snow up here in Northern Colorado. It was a long, super fun day. I took a few photos…

It’s hard to see, due to my poorly chosen angle, but Max is in the air aiming for the street.

We went to Ka*Mitt skateshop after this, and then headed to one of the raddest spots…

Chad tried to peer pressure Blaine to drop in. He didn’t go for it.

(sorry glen)

Super super fun day. Can’t wait til the weather gets better and I get to tag along on more missions like this. Thanks dudes!

Mini Hike in Fort Collins and a Squirrel

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Awhile back, Jack and I made a trip up to Fort Collins to drop of some Null boards. On the way up we found this…

We fantasized about the truck being closer and skating from the top of the truck into this giant ramp thing. Unfortunately it was meant for a car dealership to display cars and was built purposely to not allow wheels to roll down it.

Jack wasn’t feeling like skating and I wasn’t too keen on driving straight up and back, so we ended up going on a mini hike before heading back to Boulder…

Fun times. Then a little while later, a squirrel came to visit…

My real camera died, but there are many more pictures from my phone…

And that’s all for today’s postings.

Casa Bonita trip!!!

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Finally! A trip to Casa Bonita!! (and maybe my last… ha) I rarely am a passenger on a car ride, so I took advantage of the fact that Odessa was driving to snap some photos along the way…

We were meeting some of Odessa’s friends, and we ended up getting there much earlier. To kill some time, we went to the ARC to check out some sweet records…