It’s been 15 years since Kurt died.  I can still remember the day like it was yesterday.  I was up at Copper Mountain with some friends when I got a call from my homie Josh.  We were so bummed to say the least.  Nirvana is still one of our favorites.  Pitchfork put a little compilation of different Smells Like Teen Spirirt covers up here and this one was my favorite.

My 36th B-day.  Yeah.  Had a fun day doing the Easter thing with the family, but was messed up from eating so much candy and fatty food.  I kinda wanted to just go out for a beer, but Nate and Jason wanted red curbs (it was raining).  So there we go.  Started about 8:30 and Jake met us too.  I could hardly kickflip to save my life and Nate was having the candy problem too, but it was fun.  Jake landed a front lip.  Jason landed some back tailslides!  New trick for him so hyped.  Nate tried to ollie a 5 foot cone.  My highlight was a nose manual followed by an ollie over the rock gap.  I’ve never ollied it before, just wallied the rock.  Later on I got a fakie bigspin up the curb and Jason got my back with a full cab up.  WTF?  He’s never even done that trick before.  Nate was killing the back 5-0 shoves grinding the whole curb.  At the end I started hucking fakie front crooks and landed one where I didn’t grind at all.  Does it even count if your going 2 miles an hour on a curb?

My last day of being 35.  I’m feeling pretty old these days, but Jason is older than me so I have no excuses.  We went to the long metal ledge that is really good frontside.  Warming up sucked as usual and I was pretty frustrated at times, but kept skating.  I got front 50 shove in a crappy run, a few back crooks and came close but never landed a bunch more like front 50 kickflip out which I haven’t done in forever.  Nate and Jason did front lips all good.  Next we went to the US Bank brick bank spot.  It’s kinda like LA High, but steeper, taller and not as good.  Either way it was still a blast.  Nate and Jason killed that place.  They both got super long back boardslides.  Jason did a pivot to fakie for crying out loud as well as back tailslides over a hip.  So ridiculous.  I started slow but managed to start having a blast and got a few tricks.  Back boardslide (only a few inches compared to the multiple feet Nate and Jason were doing them), back feeble over the edge, back nosepick, back axle to fakie, ollie to frontside wallride trying to be all Grant Taylor but it wasn’t at all, and ended with back smith stall.  Super fun session.  Jason and Nate killed it.

Met Nate on a nice Friday aftern0on and we decided to hit campus.  We parked over by Silvermine subs since we don’t normally skate that part of campus.  We ended up hitting the curved ledge thing that is insanely hard to skate.  No setup, downhill runway, uphill ledge.  We ended up getting noseslides and crooks and Nate added back 50s to the mix.  Then we went under the tunnel and were surprised to find a whole section of new ledges just waiting to be waxed and skated which we did.  Not the best ledges, but we couldn’t believe they weren’t skated yet.  I was full on sucking and that’s how my whole session went.  I can’t ever seem to skate right after work and downhill runways bug the hell out of me.  We got three different sections to grind really good and I put together a horrible looking slow run.  Front 50, back board, front 50 front 180.  Yippee.  We played a pretty bad game of SKATE where I lost on a switch front shove then decided to kickflip into the bikepath hill.  I ended up slamming multiple times on the kickflip then focused my board.  Such a horrible way to end an ok session.  At least my board was dead.