We got in pretty late to ABQ so we had a late start. After hitting up BZ to sell some boards we went to a nearby DIY ditch spot.

Josh killed this place. There is a few more qp’s there too. But Josh going over the grate to noseblunt is pretty messed up. Then we skated the weird foundation that’s there too. Jack tried to ollie onto this crazy gravel angled piece of concrete mess, but kept sticking in it. I felt somewhat ok and tried a little line which I eventually got. Ollie a little flat gap, kickflip a little gap, front 180 a little weed off a curb.

Then we ended up here. I didn’t feel like shutting down the spot so I just kind of filmed/lurked/smiled. Our tour guide Dave went buck here and got an NBD that was gnarly. With how many pros have been to this spot it’s pretty crazy that the rails are even still an option. Josh, Jack and Max tried some stuff too, but nothing came of it and we moved on.

We ended up at pretty much the best spot ever. Seriously, ever. For about the first 30 minutes my excitement was so high I couldn’t even try tricks I was just cruising around in disbelief of how awesome everything was. Seriously mind blowing spot and major kudos to the people responsible for building it. On top of the spot ruling it, the weather was perfect, the vibe was awesome and there were two other filmers there!!! I didn’t film at all! Watching the Nullers kill it was awesome too. They skated the hip so good. Jack did kickflip late shove, impossibles, everything. Josh did everything. Cameron even killed it with a nollie front foot flip. Max was putting together 20 trick lines. Monico showed!!! And immediately killed it. Pole jam 360. I was trying long lines with manuals on the ledge, front slash on the smaller bank (where Max is going back for his board), front 5-0 on the ledge, ollie up the little step up (behind Cameron), ollie the car chair off the ledge (next to the pole jam). Never got the whole line, but I did land on a few ollies over the chair and smacked down so hard. Geez. I eventually would get it as I was trying to get Josh’s back and he had already done f/s flip and after getting switch flip I had to get his back. Whew. I really didn’t do a whole lot more myself, but I could skate that place forever and that was a really fun session.

Lastly we went to an absolutely insane school. It was straight out of THPS. Gnarly hubba, ledges off stairs, etc. It was bonkers. I didn’t skate. Monico and Jack got some gnarly tricks. Then we went on to have one of the funnest party nights that involved a late night drunken group skate to another house. It was epic. Super fun day.

As Nullers arrived Jack and I dorked around on the street in front of my house. I was super tired and anxious about leaving so I didn’t really try anything. Mostly just powerslides and shoves. Jack had some good slides and some flatground. Max did 10 treflips in a row. F’ing Max. Then we left.

Woke up at 5am for some dumb reason. Went to work early so had some time to kill before halloween festivities with the family. I wanted to go to Broomfield park, but didn’t want to drive that far. Went by Stonehenge and there were cars there. I really wanted something mellow. Drove by the ballpark ledges and new I wouldn’t be able to ollie that high by how I was feeling. Wind and lack of sleep can add to my arthritis and it was in full effect. Ugh. I ended up at this spot because there is kind of a bank there. Warming up never really happened. I was straight sucking the whole time. Back 50s where I felt like I was going to die the whole time. Couldn’t do crooks. Ugh. You can’t really see the leaves blowing by in the photo, but they were. I managed a line of back 50 then kickflip to fakie on the steeper part of the bank. I basically only did back 50s since crooks were not working. And even then I would rarely land them. I did a few front 50s going up it and then a few flippers at the end. One of which was 3 flip and it took a while. Argh.