On a nice Novemenber day Brian, Travis and I started messing around in the street before others showed up.  Nothing great went down.  We were just chilling, but it was fun.After Fuzz, Jake and Neil showed up too we went to Southern Hills.  We ended up staying there a long time.  Fuzz and Neil were trying crooks on the picnic table bench then noseslides on the ledge then something.  Brian was bumming on the spot for awhile before doing one of the best wallrides I’ve ever seen followed up by a sick backside no comply 360.   Jake was doing fakie bigspins into the handicap ramp everytime and following it up with either a tailslide on the ledge, or a slam.  Carleigh and Nate showed up too.  I was kinda all over the place.  Somehow managed to quickly get a caligrind to manual on in two tries, kickflipped into the handicap ramp pretty easily and got a front noseslide to fakie on the ledge.  I also front 50’d it first try and got a few crooks.  I’m scared of those ledges.  I got a treflip on flat first try that felt really good.  Good enough it made me not feel bad taking so long to land it the other night.  Jake and I played a game of SKATE.  I got Jake with fakie bigflip, treflip, halfcab flip, front shove and maybe the best nollie treflip I’ve ever done to win it.  Then Carleigh and I raced for lines and she got hers first.  Kickflip into the handicap bank and a long noseslide on the ledge.  Sick Carleigh!  After that Fuzz and I raced for a tallcan over fakie treflips and I came out the winner of 24oz Coors Original.  yum.  Thanks Fuzz!  Perhaps the first time I’ve ever won a bet against Fuzz and maybe one of the best fakie tres I’ve ever done.  Fun.We left and went the four loading dock/banked manny pad spot.  I started off sucking.  It took at least 15 tries before I manual the curb high pad.  ugh!  fuzz was killing as usual, Neil was killing nose mannies as usual, Nate was getting tech, Carleigh got a manual.  Since I couldn’t manual the stupid curb high pad I decided to try a run.  Ollie up the tall part of the dock and ride down it, 360 flip on flat, then kickflip off the uphill pad.  Believe it or not I did it second try.  Unheard of.  If the camera would have been out I never would have landed that treflip.  Ha.  We all started dorking out at the end and I intentionally cracked my board while Fuzz accidentally cracked his then focused it.  Then the cops rolled up and had plenty of opportunity to bust us, but instead were super cool and we were out for the day.  Fun session.  Landing the treflip in the line second try made me feel really good.

Met Nate around sunset after work (which is like 5pm these days) at Meta.  We rolled down under the bridge after Nate quickly 50d the ledge like it’s nothing.  I don’t get doing downhill ledge tricks as warmups.  Oh well.  We ended up about 5 feet past the bridge and skated that area for awhile.  We ollied the small bench gap then Nate started trying to ride into backlips on the bench.   We both tried it awhile and got it.  Neither of us have done backlips on a ledge before so even though we didn’t ollie in, it still felt cool.  Then we ollied the big two that’s there (Nate first and mine was horrible) before doing a few slappy grinds on the slanted curb.  Fun.  We moved into campus and were surprised that most of it was dry.We cruised by a few other spots that either had cops or snow on them and ended up at the brick courtyard with benches.  I got a few basics quick while Nate bailed the gap into the street.  Normally he has that everytime.  I kinda got  a crooks and some front noseslides.  Nate ollied a pile of now in a couple tries and I kinda ollied it in several tries.  Next we ollied a weird 3 stair then moved up to the 1 – 7 curves stairs.  Nate ollied down the 4 easy and I took a few.  We also both manualled the downhill sidewalk and had some ollies up the smaller sections of the stairs.  Before moving on I did a gap down to back 5-0 a stair down.  I thought it was dumb, but Nate seemed to think it was cool.Next up we went to the Business building where Nate could not for the life of him do a side rock like Little Jack on the banked ledge.  I got it kinda quick, but Nate seriously almost died like 30 times.  He kept putting his board in the mud and everything.  So funny.  Maybe the first time ever that I’ve seen Nate have to struggle on a trick that I thought was easy.  Nate rips though and after having enough he ollied and 180’d up the long 2 like it was nothing.  I got an ollie up it.  We tried some manuals at the two long downhill pads for a bit.  Not that great then went up to the engineering building and found that somewhat had waxed up the ledge near the banked area.  Impossible to describe but it was relatively easy for Nate and I to do wallie back 50s on.  So fun.  That was basically the night.