After what was easily the craziest experience getting to the airport ever we found our flight was delayed by 3 hours.  Ha.  We killed some time by eating then we skated a corner of the airport for awhile.  It was hilarious.  Everyone slammed hard.  The carpet made tricks hard and b/s 180s seemed to be the hardest.  We lasted about 45minutes before someone told us to stop.After the flight and some free chocolate chip cookies we were in SF!  We rolled to Gordon’s house and met up with the largest crew to date.  20 people I think?  It was sick.  Rob surprised everyone by being there.  After some mingling Joey, Nate, Eric and I did a little skating.  We started our at across the street where there was a nice little red two stair and some chains to ollie.  Nate did a bunch of tricks.  I did a couple, but was feeling the flight for sure.  Joey did some techness, but I forget what.  A cop showed up nearby so we went over to the 3 up 3 down and played some games of SKATE.  I won the first one which was really bad, then Eric won the second.  We did some tricks on the lowest stair and ollied up/off a few times.  Good little start to the trip.

But seeing as how Gordon said it was too big for him chances are pretty slim ..

Skating a couple days before a skate trip is the worst.  I wanted to skate, but the fear of getting hurt is kinda hard to ignore.  So I went to campus around 9pm and it was way colder than it should have been.  I wasn’t too motivated and it showed.  I cruised around to a few spots and didn’t really try anything.  Eventually I ended up near the tunnel going to the hill.  I wanted to do a run where I ollie onto the ledge on the 3 stair, kickflip, powerslide, noseslide the ledge that Jam front noseslid in an old Meta video.  But I couldn’t get the speed for the first ollie so I just resorted to ollie’ing the 3 stair.  But even then I didn’t do the noseslide as it was too sticky and I was going to fast.  I also tried starting the line with the drop from tall ledge to short ledge which is still terrifying to me even though I’ve done it a bunch.  That was a dumb line too.  It was cool trying to tailslide the rail at the start of the ledge though.  I eventually moved down to the next building and started trying a line of no comply 180, fakie ollie up a curb, fakie flip, sw front 180 off.  But the fakie flip was troublesome as it was a downhill sidewalk and the cracks kept getting me.  Then a cop drove nearby so I left and ended up at the ledges on the hill.  I started off sucking, but ended up having fun.  Got some front 50s and some b/s noseslides before the light shut off and I slowly headed back to the car not really skating much of anything on the way back.

Kinda tired from the night before Bernie and Carleigh arrived and we left for Denver and picked up Derek on the way. After that we met Mikey and Jeff at the dreaded ice rink of a park called Denver park. It was a bit chilly outside, but not too cold for skating. I started pushing around and pumping. It was actually kinda fun even. I didn’t do anything good, but I had fun warming up and my legs didn’t feel like steel when I was done.Next up we went to a crazy ledge against a wall that Jeff wanted to do a manual trick on.  I ollied on and rode off which was scary enough for me.  Jeff and Bernie put dowm some mean tricks although it turns out Bernie’s is an ABD.  Oh well.  We moved on and were at the curb in/out grated metal manny pad spot.  The nullers did some neat stuff before we got booted.We looked at some other spots and skated around for awhile before ending up at a mellow bank to ledge where I finally skated a bit better.  I did a noseslide then got into some crooks and landed a couple short ones.  I also came from the other way and ollied the little cinder block barrier pretty easily to start off  a run.  This took me awhile to ollie last time I was there and as little as it is, it still hyped me up.  Anyways, I got that with a front nose 270 out once.  I also got it with a front board pop out (horrible) followed by a slow ollie a sidewalk gap to axle stall on a curb.  Neat.  That was the end of the day.  I wish we would have skated more, but whatevs.  Thanks for the photos Carleigh.