After doing an early morning run to Crisis I picked up Neil then Jake and we headed to Longmont as Fuller had said it was drier then Boulder. We started at Rocky Mountain High. There was a lady standing in front of the school so we started below at the weird block thing. I should have taken a photo because it’s a really hard place to describe. Basically a block of concrete with some wide stairs on one side, a slight bank above it. Neil and Jake were on the ollie game way before me, I was so sore/tired. Neil had all kinds of moves and would go around in a circle doing them all. Manny, nose manny, one foot, kickflip, back 180 one foot, front shoves, no complys. Jake had mannies easy, kickflips. I couldn’t manual forever and Jake and Neil had moved on before I finally got my two trick combo. Manual then b/s flip off the bump. But it was a rare b/s flip where I landed and kept my speed, so I went down the hill and did a good feeling fakie flip and ended with halfcab flip into the downhill. Hyped! I joined Neil and Jake ollie’ing out of the rollerblade rink which was too high for me. I think I’ve done it once before. But not today. Jake and Neil both did it then kickflipped into the downhill. Bernie and Garret joined us and we went up top to the ledge/bank area. Bernie is just starting to skate again after a bad foot injury so was taking it easy, but still managed to rip. Front tail to switch manny, halfcab heel, kickflips, front tail shove out. Garret is super young and popped some nice kickflips and treflips. Proper front tails, front tail shove. Jake makes front tails look easy and stands way up on crooks. Neil was lining out everything as he usually does. Pop shove up a curb, manual around the flag pole, front tail or front tail to fakie. This one is crazy. Ollie up no comply to tail on the windowsill of the bank, ollie up the curb, crooks shove. Not sure if he got the crooks shove. I tried to copy Neil going the frontside way, but I can’t front tail so it’s kinda silly. After a hundred tries I managed to get a front tail onto the ledge and fell off right away. Eh it’s a start. I struggled with back 50s, gave up and just kickflipped in. That’s really weird how much easier that is getting then regular back 50s. Front shoves up the curb were fun too. Neil and Jake were sitting in the car so we moved to a new spot.

We went to Skyline High. They redid the back area. No ledges anymore. But a weird curb to ollie which I did a couple times after nosesliding a bench. There are some rails to ollie over there now. Upon leaving I ollied onto the narrow ledge and rode down. Pretty fun.

Then Bernie, Garret and I went to look at a new spot behind an old school while Jake and Neil sat in my car. It ended up being pretty cool. I tried a line of ride down the 9 stair hubba thing to cali grind off the end of it and then ollie the 5 stair. The ollie took me a really long time. Mainly because it was so narrow. After getting some snowballs thrown at me for bailing yet again, and some swearing I finally got both. Ollieng a 5 is nothing to brag about, but for me it felt rad so somehow skate two sets of stairs in a row. Pretty rare for me.

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