Had the late shift at work so didn’t get home until about 6:30. It was windy and snowing slightly in Boulder, but Dave still wanted to skate. So after eating I met him at Broomfield park where it wasn’t as cold as I thought it would feel. We basically had the whole park to ourselves all night. A few other people were there at various times, but they were never skating/biking the same thing so it was like we had it to ourselves. It’s been a bit since I’ve skated there and man, there are so many fun things at the park. Warming up didn’t take long at all either so that was a plus. When I got there Dave was trying fakie 540 kick turns on the mellow bank so I tried too. Almost got it first try, then kept getting it further away. Fun. We had lines going to get there. Dave had pole jam (off the side which seems even harder to me), bluntslide, rock fakie on the brick qp. I had f/s flip on the bank above the bowl, axle stall, noseslide to fakie on the black ledge. We mixed it up though. I was hyped on doing halfcab flip, then kickflip into the bank, manual the black box, rock fakie on the brick qp. Dave got a bluntslide 270 out then moved on to the bump to flat bar where he did boardslide, boardslide fakie and boardslide shove. I played on the black ledge a little. I got front 50 back 180 out and I think backed it up with the first and only fakie 540 kickturn I landed. It’s harder then I thought it would be, but super fun. We both had a couple falls trying it. Then we kinda moved down to the blue ledge where we both struggled with nose mannies. I never did land one, but Dave got a couple. I managed a few slow front tailslides (yes “slides” as in they actually slid), front 5-0s, fakie nosegrind, kind of a fakie nosegrind 180 out to stop, back 50 while doing tricks on the quartapotty like front feeb, front d and front t. I also got kickflip back 50 and then a kickflip back 5-0 which I haven’t done intentionally in a long long time. Hyped! Dave was doing crazy lines with fakie ollies on the steep bank, ollie out from the quarter potty to b/s pivot on the wallie hubba thing, back 50s on the ledge and almost back nosegrinds. He also did a front 50 back 180 out. We were having a blast. The park was just ours. The main lights shut off. Doh. Dave spent that time doing tricks on the brick qp. I skated slow and did flatground. Got 3 flip and nollie 3 flip as an icing on the cake for a super fun night. Stay away winter.

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