Had the early shift at work and it was 100 when I got out. So I went to sleep for awhile, woke up, got some null/four stuff done, ate dinner then watched Austyn Gillette slay the streets of LA yet again. I’ve probably watched that part 20 times now. I wanted to skate to campus, but a couple things held me back. First, I had to bring a board box to FedEx. Second, it was still 93 so I wanted to have water nearby. It didn’t matter though, I got to campus and started pushing. I had put my headphones on and went straight to gold, You’re Living All Over Me. I ended up at the Library and did a fun little line of ollie a sketchy 3 stair, push down the hill, ollie a metal grate going fast (okay I was going fast enough that it was terrifying for me so I barely tapped the tail but since I was actually moving kinda fast I would clear it) then keep going and ollie into another little hill and push down it. Got to the end of the hill that normally has a sidewalk, but due to construction I ended up almost dieing as the sidewalk turned to gravel. Ended up by the rec center and got a fun line of f/s shove out of the kicker, ollie a median, manual the median then bail a nose manual. The f/s shove took a bit, but was fun. Next up I saw some new jersey barriers near a long manny pad. I started out doing a little slash on this curb thing, try for manual then a wallride on a barrier. Never put all 3 together, but got the wallride everytime. So that would mean I couldn’t get it when I started trying a harder line; Fast ollie up a sidewalk, f/s 180 off (which was scary the first few times), halfcab flip on flat, manual, wallride. Never got the wallride. It bummed me out a bit, but I liked the line anyway. It seemed like everytime I actually landed the manual I had to weave through cars or bikers. On the way back I had fun trying nollie tres and was getting super close. Also tried kickflip up the curb, kickflip off, kickflip a manhole but ate shit when I got to the manhole. It was one of those “wow I’m skating really hard and slamming feels good” slams. I went and got some water, lurked at the new area for a bit, cracked my board on a boardslide on a bench (not bad enough to stop skating) then went and skated flatground at the art building. It started off horrible, but I got one of the best flatground lines I’ve ever done. Heelflip, treflip, b/s flip, fakie flip, f/s halfcab flip and almost a nollie tre. I guess that would be the PJ inspired part of the session. I tried a bunch of nollie tres, but never got one. Half the time I wouldn’t even snap the nose. I did get quite a few treflips though. I felt like trying some more stuff, but after kind of just looking around I headed home stoked that my body/mind felt great and I skated as hard/good as I did. Skateboarding rules. So does Dinosaur Jr, I think they get partial credit for the evening being so amazing as I went through YLAOM, Bug and Where You Been. 3 of the finest albums ever made.

Pretty tired from a late night before and lethargic from the heat I met up with Carleigh around 6pm to go skate the Rockcreek ramp. There was actually some cloud cover and it was pretty nice out. I started off sucking like no other. It took four tries to do an axle stall. Ugh. I had been in the mood for street skating so I guess I wasn’t ready for this. Carleigh pretty much did all her moves in the first few runs. Well, everything but front disasters, which is my fault because I had them for the day. After my slow start I skated decent and had fun. Almost got a Joe Hamilton (fakie 50 to rock ‘n roll). Did some more wannabe smith grinds. Had fun. Tried a bunch of kickflip f/s boardslides on the flatbar at the very end. Got remotely close, but mostly just lost a lot of griptape.

Back home on the scolding hot front range. Got a bunch of stuff done during the day then took a siesta knowing I’d be skating late. Fuzz and I turned down a Northglenn park invite because as Fuzz said, “Parks are for scooters”. Ha. We had both watched the amazing Austyn Gillette QUICK part and felt like pushing through the streets. While waiting for John we went to a parking lot near Fuzz’s and got things moving quick. Lots of boardslides on a parking block, ollies up curbs, etc. We were having a blast. It was pretty funny too, as we were skating Colorado legend Travis La walked out of a restaurant he works at and hung out awhile. John eventually showed up too. We kept skating. It’s funny that John struggles with boardslides considering all the other amazing tricks he can do. It took me awhile, but I managed a slappy crooks which really hyped me up. Halfcab boardslides went down. Fuzz’s slappy 50s and noseslides were so good.

Off we went to meet up with Meta at a loading dock spot. Meta kids were going off so us three old men played a game of SKATE for awhile. It didn’t go so good. Fuzz had a heart palputation, my feet stopped working and we lost interest. After awhile we went exploring. We saw a crazy bump that Dompierre busted a huge tailslide on a window sill out of. Ridiculous, completely ridiculous. Then some dudes at a warehouse told us to come check out their miniramp. What? Ha, it was in a loading dock hole and too dark to skate, but we saw their board press and stuff. Pretty random to say the least.

I was trying some stuff on the other side by myself mostly. Ollie up the little curb, front 180 over a pallet, f/s halfcab flip. Tried a few rick flips, not even close. I got a couple ollies over the pallet up the loading dock which was fun for me, actually going kind of fast. Then I skated this door wallride thing with Jack and John for awhile. We all did the basic wallrides which was really fun. John and Jack did soft rocks. Jack did a wallride to manual. I got a f/s wallride that felt great. After that John and Fuzz got in on the loading dock ledge action. I got too tired and didn’t have the will to ollie up the curb four pushes deep. It was already like 2am at that point. Sean, Josh and JJ got some cool stuff on that ledge though.