This might very well be the last skate session with Nate as he’s moving to Portland.  He’s been one of my favorite skate homies ever and a great friend.  Best of luck in Portland Nate, can’t wait to skate with you again.Ok, now that your eyes are all teary lets move on to the skating.  It seemed like things took forever to get organized, but eventually Jason, Carleigh, Nate, Neil and I headed to Broomfield to get warmed up.  Before we left I had skated the curb in my back yard for a bit and did a front smith stall kickflip out.  Nice.  Anyways Broomfield wasn’t very crowded and the weather was much cooler than normal.  We ended up all skating pretty hard for about an hour.  It seemed like everyone was landing new stuff.  I don’t really remember what everyone was doing.  I remember Nate trying nollie big back heel to fakie nose manual.  He didn’t get too close, but even just getting that close is ridiculous.  I found a new wallie angle at the bottom of the wallride bank that hyped me up.  I came close to kickflip manuals on the blue box.  I really don’t remember what we all landed, but we were all skating non-stop and having fun.The first place we ended up was this weird alley spot. Above is Nate doing a 5-0. Peep Carleigh’s site for more photos. This spot is way harder to skate than it looks. The air conditioning units get in the way and there are cracks everywhere and it’s downhill. But it’s so fun. John, Chris Jones and Daryl met us here. It took a long time for the older ones (Chris and Daryl not included) to land anything. I only got front 50 and 5-0 (but the 5-0 was intended to be a 50). I also did a couple rock stall funny turn arounds on other stuff. John got front 50 and sw back nose and a crazy quick up to front 50 against the window. Jason did a bunch of good front 50s and ended it with a sick front nose to fakie. Chris dorked around mostly and did some crazy stuff. Daryl pretended to be the pro oh his shoes (Pappalardo) and ollied up the crazy tall loading dock. Nate did everything. Front 5-0, front 50, front nosegrind, front 5-0 back 180, front nosegrind back 180, nose manny the wood ledge, he officially owned it. Carleigh didn’t skate it at first but started working on noseslides and shut the session down with an accidental 180 nosegrind to fakie. Sick!Next was the taller white ledge in the alley near Civic park.  Nate wanted to get a line with a kick back tail.  While he warmed up I ended up getting a decent run for me.  Good for me halfcab flip, noseslide, treflip.  The halfcab flip felt really good.  I slammed pretty hard trying to front 50 it.  Jason got a good front board pop out, back noseslides, front nose.  I filmed Nate for awhile try a line of nollie tre then kick back tail.  He put the best nollie tres down, but never got the kick back tail.  Doh.After a couple wallies out of the grate wallie dock and a quick kick out at the art center we went out for dinner then to the Transworld Hallelujah premiere.  It was pretty crowded and hard to see, but it was fun.  Tyler Bledsoe’s back tail for 20 feet to b/s flip out is ridiculous.  Taylor Bingaman skates coping  really well wether it’s down stairs or on tranny.  Pete Eldridge was in the crowd and looking sharp.  Denver is well represented in the montage which totally rules.  Ryan Decenzo does some crazy ass tricks.  Torey Pudwill does so many NBDs it’s ridiculous.  There was some controversy after the video finished in that Nate and I liked the NBD part the best, Fuzz and John liked the coping dancer the best.  But we agreed to disagree and everything was fine.  Seems like it’ll be a great video to watch over and over.After the premiere we went to a 24 hour diner filled with typical late night diner folks.  It was awesome.  I was exhausted.

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