I’m trying my hardest to be more like Carleigh’s blog with lots of photos.  So here we go with some nature shots.  Now if only I was willing to carry my DSLR around like Carleigh.  Instead it’s smart phone photos galore.  Anywyas, yeah, Liz and I went on a hike last friday.  It was fun, but it left me sore for a few days and Liz laughed about that a lot.  Here we have a view of the Flatirons.

Then you can face the other way and see prairie for miles.

We even mingled with the natives.  It was lovely.

My kids were up at my parents for a couple days so Liz and I got to go out and enjoy an evening. After an over priced meal at Mamacitas we headed to the No Name bar to see some punk rock. The clean bar, basketball game on the TV and Independent hoodies bought at the mall didn’t bode well for the “punk” element, but it’s actually a fun low key bar.

Clearly Liz was hyped.

I was stuck with her while it looked like my friends were having fun in the back corner.

Not much effort involved in this band photo. They did kill it though. As did Have Gun, Will Travel.

Jason taking photos of the Samsonites +1.

I was unaware that it was hat night. Jason was repping an old one.

But these guys had apparently just hit up Pac Sun.

Headband and a white russian drink = The Dude.

We had a lot of fun that night. Black Dot’s are really good. So stoked they are making shows like this happen in Boulder. Keep up the good work!

Normally I would post the youtube version of this here instead of just and image, but no can do anymore thanks to The Berrics. Anyways, this game was a disappointment. In fact, it was so bad that the best part is actually the postgame interview when PJ calls Albert’s tricks “Embarrassing” and said he didn’t want to even do them. The halfcab casper was cool, but yeah, fakie body varial? Ha. And I might actually finally think that Reda is funny.

Met up with Carleigh, then Neil, then Kyle, Keenan, Justin and Fuzz at St Julien. Carleigh and I had walked/skated there and I had done a couple manuals. Everyone did their warmup thing. I had a few front 50s and back crooks that felt really fun. I haven’t really skated with the Crisis kids too much so it was a pleasant surprise to see them smiling and skating the whole time. Not that I would expect anything less from anyone associated with Fuzz. I think my favorite trick was a manual to nosebonk that Justin did. I had gotten in the line zone and actually did a couple I was hyped on. Kickflip over the tiny part of the ledge, no comply 180, halfcab flip, front 180 over the bigger part of the ledge, fakie flip. The fakie flip was a noseskid sketch where I almost shot my board into a very obese lady. Fat people must hate skaters. Carleigh landed some good kickflips on flat and over the ledge. Neil was ripping as always. Anyways, the next line was switch 180 over the tiny part of the ledge, 360 flip then back 180 over the bigger part of the ledge. I am horrible at back 180s and this one was sketchy, but I’ve never done it there before so cool. Last line was the killer. Back 180 over the little part of the ledge, fakie bigflip, back pop shove, kickflip over the bigger part of the ledge. I never got the kickflip. I was probably about 50% on the fakie bigflip and you know I can’t land anything else very consistent so when I actually got the opportunity to try the kickflip I would blow it over and over. I landed on a couple and shot out for no reason, but other then that the main problem was I couldn’t even pop over the stupid 3″ tall ledge. UGH. Neil and Crisis had headed over to Canyon Center and we rejoined with them after I ended up giving up on the kickflip. I was so beat. We walked up as Justin did a really sick blunt to fakie. Fuzz was ripping and did a switch pivot to fakie. Keenan some how did a really good pivot which i tried to do and ended up stretching my foot again and left me hurting. I was really frustrated. Before leaving we watched as Keenan and Justin did silly little kid grinds on the angled flatbar end and it really stoked me out. I love watching people skate like kids. Love it.

This photo pretty much sums up my skating as of late. We started the day at Southern Hills. Max ollied a huge trashcan and I pretended to follow him, but swerved around it and hit a hole and slammed. Ugh. Bernie was nursing a rolled ankle and skating lightly. Neil started off yelling, but calmed down and almost put together a great line of pop shove into the handicap ramp, nose manny a bench, wallride then front lip shove. He came really close. Sam rolled around for awhile, but then chilled. Zack was there chilling mostly. Carleigh had some noseslides. Max was ripping of course. He can ollie up onto the benches like it’s nothing. He got me to 50 up the handrail. Well it’s true. The lowest part of the handicap rail that starts off about 2″ off the ground. I was trying a line of noseslide, crooks, 50 on the rail again. Never got them all. Was feeling like the photo above.

Next we went to Longmont to the checkboard manny pad and I didn’t think I’d be able to skate I was so sore, but I got a manual and a nose manual and came remotely close to nose manual shove before turning into Filmer Glen. Bernie seemed a bit looser and was trying halfcab manual treflip out. Max was trying a bunch, but almost got kickflip nose manual nollie treflip out but some jock in a pickup sweated us hard and we left.

We went to some ledges at Longmont High that were actually really good. Like super good. I didn’t do much before I turned into filmer Glen. It was worth it though as Max came through with like 4 clips. He was ripping so hard. Bernie’s ankle was bothering him and he couldn’t land a nosegrind to start his line. Carleigh did a million boardslides and several noseslides.

Lots more photos on Carleigh’s blog.