Headed out in the cold solo style around 9pm after dinner and hanging out with the inlaws and family. Pretty fun, I even got a little nap. I was pretty sore, but rusty for sure. I had these visions of finding a fun line ollie’ing over piles of snow when I drove to find some area that was dry enough to skate. I ended up over near Circuit City area. I had a few cruises around looking for a line to try and I wasn’t even cold. I settled on a line where I back 180’d a manhole, did a switch front 180, wallied from a parking block to the sidewalk, rode off the sidewalk, pushed and tried to do a quick up to gap over a long pile of snow. I got this over a smaller section of the snow then went back and tried to start with a kickflip over the manhole. Both the kickflip and back 180 took too long.THE SLAM. Anyways, so I got to the point where I was to ollie the long gap, but at the last moment decided to turn so I also ollied up over a small section of snow and then ollied the snow gap. Not good. I did my patented shitty ollie and landed in kind of a manual dragging my back toes. Since I as actually moving more than 2mph for once I was hurdled toward the pile of snow I was trying to clear. I stuck out my hand to discover a hidden parking block under the snow that damn near broke my wrist. In trying to save my wrist I had to stop putting any weight on my left hand and my left shoulder and face took it to the concerete. I got up quick covered in snow in disbelief of what just happened. I debated just leaving my board behind and quitting skateboarding forever. Seriously, I’m 36 and I still can’t ollie. Unfortunately I like skateboarding too much and I got up and tried again. The kickflip over the manhole felt better than normal, the rest of the line worked out and I ollied the stupid pile of snow. The best part was landing in the debris from the slam which caused me to slide a bit in the ice that had formed.I skated a bit more and jumped over some other snow piles before moving on to a really well lit area in front of Office Depot to lay down some flip tricks. It started off good as I had 6 tricks down in 7 tries (shoves both way, kickflip, fakie flip, varial flip ,fakie varial flip), but then it went downhill. 360 flips took forever, heelflips took forever and I slowed down more with each bailed attempt. I landed most of my basics and called it a night. The DC’s I have are lasting forever. At times I feel the difference in cupsoles not having as good as board feel, but for the most part I am digging how my legs/feet don’t hurt as much.