On a warm evening I got out pretty early. Went to the research center and went up to the long stairs to ride down as a warm up. I ended up being there awhile. Did a line with a noseslide on an untouched ledge, boardslide pop out on a curb, then ollie up the two stair. Then I got stuck trying back 180 down the two stair and switch ride down the long stairs for quite some time. The back 180s weren’t easy initially and the switch rides were even harder. I got down one, then two, then three, then was stuck around three for awhile before almost doing the whole thing a few times then finally getting it. Whew! After finally landing the switch ride I did a f/s halfcab flip that felt great, a horrible kickflip, then pushed to the hill toward the ledge, did a few 180s and went to hit the ledge, but there was someone sitting on it. Ha. Turns out it was someone skating and they were just taking a break. The dude was cool and had the good taste of wearing NB+ shoes. I skated the hill for awhile trying flip tricks. It went ok. Then Matt showed up. He missed 3 treflips in a row. Dude is losing it! Ha. He had a sick line of nollie heel, treflip, nollie flip. I don’t think either of us landed a ledge trick when we got there. I had a few treflips treflips. It was funny, the first one I put both hands down, didn’t really count. Second one was one hand down I can take it. Third one was bolts!

Then we went around the back and skated the stairs for awhile. Well, basically I took forever to “ollie” it and Matt put together the sick little run above which is much harder then it looks.