On a crisp morning after some snow I went to Longmont to meet Rob and the Dave’s at Rocky Mountain. The hope was that since it gets so much snow it would be dry. It was, except for some run off at the ledge. I rode my 8.5 again for some dumb reason and went on to completely suck. In 2 hours I landed one crook with an unintentional manual out that almost went the distance to the curb, some kickflips and one sloppy heelflip. I was 0-20ish on front 50s and posed some front crooks. There was a young kid there skating hard. He was rad. He had some 5-0s on the ledge, treflips on flat and heelflipped over a median on the bank. Dave L treated us to his casual style. Lots of manuals, ollied onto the bank medians, did some cool Cali grind nollie shoves (you just have to see it), back tails and almost back tail shove. Rob had manuals, back 180s up to cab kickturn on the bank, switch boardslide the ledge, nollie lipslides on the curb. Fuller, aka the energizer bunny skated great. He was mostly hitting the banks initially. Ollies up to feeble the side curb, boardslide fakies, halfcab noseslide. He did a crazy line I don’t quite remember right now. I think it was nollie to fakie on a bank, switch crook ride off the curb, ollie up front 50 the ledge. There was a trick before that I’m missing. The Dave’s did wallies off a rock at the end. One of them even did it to manual, can you guess which one?

(setup null 8.5 spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium hanger cast baseplate, bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire classic shape f4 99a, new balance numeric 212 size 11.5/12, nike sb zoom air insoles)(pain level 5/10)

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