If there was one day you could predict I’d be too tired/hungover to skate this year, the day after Josh’s wedding would be a pretty good bet.  Ha.  But Josh doesn’t drink anymore so I have no real excuse other than I really didn’t want to skate that park by myself again and I was really sore.

I wouldn’t have much of any time to skate today with Josh’s wedding so I went to the park at 9:00am.  Way to early to skate.  It was hot out and I was grouchy.  On my second warm up run I hit a rock and ate shit hard.  It pissed me off soooo bad I almost focused my board.  Instead I putzed around for another 30 minutes mostly just dorking around and landed some stuff I hadn’t done there before.  I skated the 2 foot qpipe at the base of the bank to ledge and had fun on that.  I got lots of Rampy tricks like fakie pivot fakie, front d, fakie hurricane and a front tailslide.  I also got a front 5-0 to back 5-0 to fakie over the spine thing and managed to finally ollie up onto that wave thing out of the bank.  Morning skating is the worst.

After a chill night of chillin’ (chill) on the rooftop of our hotel in Seattle JP showed up around 10 am for a little “bachelor/skate” jam.  Unfortunately he had a rolled ankle and Chief had banged up his knee so it wasn’t as epic as it could have been.   We hit up a manny pad from Cory Kennedy’s part in Sasquatch a bit before hitting the park.  That thing looked easy to skate from the hotel, but it wasn’t due to a weird metal stopper on the edge.  Josh mannied it, but that was all that went down.Off to the park it was real sunny and hot.  There was some girls skate clinic to add some non-stoke to the session.  For a rolled ankle Josh was skating good.  Back smiths on the tight qpipe at the top, front rock on the big qp and lots of good ollies over the hips.  He also got front 50 and front tail on the bank to ledge.  I was sucking.  It took me awhile to have fun.  I got a noseslide on the bank to ledge, halfcab 50 transfer the weird spine thing, kickturns slightly on the window, blah.  I started doing more flatground on the top to start runs and that helped out.  I eventually got a run of fakie bigflip, kickturn, ollie, ollie, blunt transfer, halfcab 50 transfer then a b/s flip on the curved flatbank.  I failed at getting a front 50 on the bank to ledge for awhile, but landed a lot of 360 flips to setup.  At the end Josh worked on back tail the bank to ledge and I tried f/s flip on the bank.  We put them down eventually and that be the session.

Brought the kids up to Silverthorne to meet my parents halfway to their place.  Liz and I were heading for Seattle that evening and my parents were watching the kids.  After dropping them off I skated the park for awhile.  I was feeling kind of jittery from coffee, driving and the added stress of catching a flight later that afternoon.  I ended up skating the park for a couple hours and having fun.  Highlights were grinding a taller part of the tranny, front rock and front tail on a little  section, rolling into the bowl area (which was terrifying for some reason), front tailslides on the new tiny hip quarterpipe thing, back scratcher grind on the pool coping, axle stall and rock ‘n roll on the blue noping section, wallride a rock to transfer on to a ledge and a run consisting of front tail on the tiny qpipe, crooks the ledge, ollie up the euro. Fun times.