skate journal: gunnison park with fremonsters (july 9, 2021)
After a tough night of camping and a long drive we arrived at a sunny and hot Gunnison skatepark. The park had lost some of it’s edge over the years. I guess with other parks having mellow hips now it wasn’t as unique. I chilled for a while and ate. Ollie mostly sat in his hammock, but would come out for some manuals and f/s half cabs. Dan tried to heelflip into the BMX track, did a double staple gun on the mini loveseat. Eric and I attempted to play on the spine, but really didn’t do much. His rock ride to fakie was good though as was the rock fakie attempt on the little vert brick qp. He would also grind over the love seat way quicker than me. Matt had some grinds on the ledge, nollie b/s flip over the hip, qp to nose manual. Ricahrd ripped as he always does. Melon the pyramid, b/s flip way better than mine, ghetto bird the hip, nollie big heel the hip, basics on the ledge like they were nothing. I had a fun line of noseslide the pyramid ledge then turn around and b/s flip the hip, grind over the love seat and got remotely close to nollie tre the hip. Joe, aka the Energizer Bunny, skated well even though his ankle was kinda wrecked. He front 50’d the weird bank to ledge, front 50 shove and front 50 to front board the ledge, b/s flip the hip, back 50 the china bank.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate with riptides v-hollow hanger, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a big bushing 91a small bushing, spitfire f4 99a 50mm classic shape, es swift b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)