First spot of the day was Burnside! Some people had seen it, some hadn’t. Since I’ve never been to Portland before I was one of people that hadn’t ever seen it. Dave, Jack, Josh, Neil and I started on the little mini on the hill in the top photo. It sucked! Axle stalls were hard, unless you are Dave and Jack. Then we went in for the main area. Chris was killing it! He’s the token vert dude on the trip and he skated so hard. Lots of tricks, every trick. I think everyone but Rob took runs in the park. I only took two runs. It wasn’t all that crowded, I was just feeling weird. Everyone else looked good. Dave may have been the one that surprised me the most with his smoothness and large bag of tricks. After awhile we posted up near the parking lot and skated that area. As you can see by the photos a lot went down. What isn’t shown is me skating the parking block below everything. Ha. Ok the narrow new bowl was really fun to carve around in.

Then we moved downtown, hit the food carts, ate food, got kicked out of a fun ledge way too fast then ended up at this fountain spot where we lasted for hours upon hours.

We were literally here for hours. There were multiple people skating it in different ways. I was a part of the ‘treat it like a hip’ crew. Others were doing wallies off part of it or skating the ledge, or dropping in from scary heights. The flip trick the hip session was awesome. Nate did nollie back 270 heel! JP did frontside flip, lots of poppy one foots and nollie bigspin. Carleigh did kickflip even though she was talking with a new friend for a long time. Rob had several of his stylee boneless and some kickflips. I landed almost every flip trick I can do on it. Kickflips both ways, b/s flip, varial flip, hc flip, fakie varial flip, the worst f/s flip ever done I had a blast. Matt killed it with back 50 gap to back 5-0. Jack manualled through the skate stoppers to blunt. Ridiculous. Neil was all over the place. Near the end I began skating the ledge with Carleigh, Matt, Josh, Jack, Rob. Rob did boardslide to manual. I got front 5-0s when I was trying front 50s, a front 50 to front board and maybe technically a smith. Josh had some nice front noses and a front tail or two. Carleigh done did f/s 180 nosegrind a few times. Then we skated around for awhile, hit a shop, got lost and ended up at a huge ramp on the other side of the city.

Nate and I weren’t in the mood for a ramp so we went and skated flat. Well, tried to skate flat. We were so sore and it was not a pretty game. We skated around a little more, but came back to a fun looking session. Josh, Carleigh, Chris, Dave were still skating and ripping. I took a couple of runs and wish I had skated it more. Oh well, at least I beat Nate at SKATE! That was it for the skating on day 2. Long day! Fun day.

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