On a nice morning I rolled to Denver and picked up Garrett and Kevin. We had some good laughs at Garrett’s college night experience and hungover state then met Venture Dave at Parker. There was a stiff breeze and the reflection from the snow was blinding. But the ledge and manny pad were dry so that’s really all we needed. I had brought my 8 and 8.3 setups. Garrett told me to skate the 8.3 so I did. It felt huge after so much garage time on the putter, but I cannot deny how much easier it was to pop up onto the ledge. For how bad my achilles was hurting I skated alright. Had some good halfcab flips and a great feeling fakie bigflip. Crooks, fakie 50, accidental front 5-0, switch front nose, halfcab nose, front board pop out. It was fun skating with Dave finally again. He had some steezy shoves, was getting into fakie front noseslides, impossibles and good nose manuals. Kevin was having some arthritic issues he said, but still did tricks like nollie nosegrind pop out, switch nosegrind 180, lots of goodness. Garrett got manual kickflip out, close to nose manual nollie tre, 50’d the 2nd level gap out, actually missed some treflips.

Then we went to CO Springs. After the shop and some driving we ended up at Harrison High. The bench was dry, the far side of the bank was too, but lots of pebbles and not waxed. Also the two stair is no longer there. Bummer! Kevin ollied a snow pile from the corner of the bank, back tail shove, almost kick back tail. Joe and Jack had joined us, but Jack still can’t skate. Joe would get back tail gap to back tail! He didn’t get as locked in on the second ledge as he hoped, but it was still sick. My achilles was making things difficult. I went on to do a couple things though. I wasn’t sure if I got a switch crook , but Jack said I did so hooray I’m counting it! I took forever to get a halfcab noseslide and then was messing around with noseslide up to crook. I did a stationary one and then would go on to get a slow/short one that made me feel quite happy. Garrett darn near did front tail shove front tail over the gap. Pretty sure I jinxed him. After that we had a nice dinner and fun time at the Ritual premiere.

(setup null esher 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium axle thunder bushings, 49.99mm boardycakes roundups washers outside, new balance numeric 288S white size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 7/10 achilles)