skate journal: Parker, Denver, trip over! (june 16)
So insanely beat from the last few days. Went to Parker skatepark with the Fremont crew. It was sunny and warm and I was sucking. Dan, Joe and I had a little ‘first to 10 tricks on the ledge’ thing going. I somehow was first, but all my tricks were horrid. Joe and Matt killed the bank to ledge. I couldn’t seem to even get into front 50s when I was trying a front 50 back 180 out. Ugh. We were there for quite awhile, but I don’t remember much else going on until the end when we did a quintuple run. Dan halfcab stable gun, me back 50, matt front 50, joe back 50, eric rock fakie. So at least I had some fun.We chilled out for a minute waiting for Jeff to get off work and headed to a bank spot. Chief had joined us too. The bank spot was sick, but it started raining. Chief and I tried to keep skating it, but the rain won. Next up we went to Evans & Lipan ledge where Matt, Joe and Dan went nuts. They were so hyped to skate it. Highlights were Joe front 50 to front tail, front 5-0, front 50 shove, front smith, Matt crooks, back smith, Jeff every flip trick ever into the bank, Dan’s willy grind, Chief varial flip and shove it into the bank. I got a 50 up to disaster to manual down. I really could not skate at all, but was just dorking around and that was kinda fun.Next we hit the Tejon ledge. While Joe worked on his ender ender Chief and I got busy pretending like a parking block was a spine. I landed a new trick. Back nosepick transfer over to fakie. It was fun. After more screwing around Joe put down the ender ender. 50 to front board. Stoked for Joe!Last up we hit a little bank to curb spot that Jeff destroyed in 5 minutes. I wallied it. That was fun. Then we bombed a hill and the session was over. The trip was over. Time for sleep! What an epic trip. Thanks for coming out Dan, Joe, Eric and Matt. Your welcome out anytime. Sorry I was tired and sore half the time, but I’ve got a decade on you guys!