skate journal: fossil creek with bo and hayden (april 7, 2021)
On a breezy, but nice day after work I cruised up to Fort Collins to skate and hit MRKT. I went to meet Bo and Hayden at Spring Canyon, but it was super mobbed with people. Like literally 40 people skating. I had done a few laps not really doing anything yet feeling the effects of a long drive when Bo and I decided to go to Fossil instead. A short drive later we were at an almost empty park and the wind had disappeared! We started out on the top area for once. We had all done a couple warm up things when Hayden started doing kickflip up the curb, treflip off. We all tried it. Bo somehow landed on, but didn’t ride away from like 20 treflips. It was crazy. I only got a few kickflips up the curb and committed to a treflip, but never put it down. Hayden’s treflips were so casual and perfect. He increased the line to treflip up, treflip off, ollie up the ledge then treflip down the 3. Dang! Bo had some nice hops down the stairs. Then we played on the main ledge for awhile. I did okay. Didn’t completely struggle with slow front 50s, had some crooks, halfcab noseslide, switch front nose, bs flip. Bo was shredding so hard. Back lip shove, front lip, close to front lip 270 shove, super long crooks, front 5-0 shove, pop shoves, kickflips. Hayden was shredding too. Long back tails, back smiths, front tails, manuals and we filmed that line as it was getting dark. He did so many treflips. I’m jealous.
(setup 8.5 null jack pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger no big washer, 52mm spitfire f4 101a radial slim, new balance numeric 212 salmon size 12, footprint elite mid insoles)
(pain level 4/10)