Right after work on the first 90 degree day I met Jack and Carleigh and we went up to Cheyenne for the 23rd anniversary John Doe skate jam at the Cheyenne park. We pulled in at the same time as Skelly, Justin and Mike from Ft Collins. Good timing. Most of the Cheyenne dudes were chilling as they had been going at it for hours. Sean hadn’t stopped though, he was still busy destroying the park. Monster sw back 180, a million awesome tricks all landed every try. Dude slays. I started out on the tiny qp in front of the main ledge. That thing is fun. I did a first try blunt to rock fakie which was new for me last time I went there and then a few backside blunts. So hyped on learning that! Everyone else was kind of all over the place. Jack did a crazy manual late 360 shove, Carleigh got a front 50 across and down. I got a noseslide down. Got into some front 50s across and down, but never quite got it. Had a couple fun lines of front 50 the top, ride down the bank, boardslide the shotgun rail, nose manny the flat of the mini ramp. Jack did a nice front hurricane on the shotgun rail right in front of me and told me to crooks it. After a patented crooks/willy/jib I did an actual crooks. Neato. Man so much was going on this is hard to remember. Mike did a really long wallie 50. Skelly was nursing a broken foot, but still shredding. I tried wallieing up the green box and was kinda just sucking flailing around. Oh yeah, I had new shoes:

Fallen Forte Lowcard collab. They are thin as hell so skated pretty good on day 1. After awhile Mike and I started trying tricks over the hip. He did back 180, cab and fakie bigspin. All were tight and all were after doing rock ‘n roll or rock fakie on the weird dark metal qp at the top. I tried backside flip and got a couple. The second one felt great. Next up we all skated near the top of the park. There were some crazy long lines going with lots of ollies. I think both Carleigh and Mike got the following. Ollie the long two, ollie up 1, quick ollie up the next 1, ollie up the taller ledge (2 stair height at the top of the park), ollie into the step up. So sick. Jack was in on the action, but I forget what he was doing. He would manual the middle stair and ollie up the next of course. No comply flip up the long 2, no comply tailslide on the bank, a ton. I was hyped on a line of ollie the long 2 (which was way easier then I thought it would be and I’m sorry I embarrassed myself so much in front of Jack and Carleigh), ollie up 1, quick ollie up the 2nd, kickflip up the tall ledge, kickflip down the top 2 stair. That’s almost as exhausting to type as it was to do. Ha. At the end Jack, Carleigh, Mike and I played a game of SKATE. It ended up Jack and I going at it and it went on forever. We weren’t landing all that much, but somehow we went on forever and it seemed like a totally epic game to me. At one point we were tied and Jack did a double flip. I hucked it and landed it. Hyped me up so much. Later on Jack would take me out with a 43 shifty that I managed to land after the game (of course). That trick hates me. What a fun night though. Warm weather, no wind in Cheyenne, a couple beers, homies, good skating. What a blast.

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