Food, Skating, Party

On Saturday I went to the People's Food Justice Summit held at Kepner Middle School in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver.  I went to learn about what organizations and communities are doing about food inequalities in Denver, because I am doing one of my independent studies on food deserts in our city.  The summit was really informative, I got a lot out of it.

At all the food events I've been to, there is always amazing food.  These people really practice what they preach and make what they love, delicious and healthy food.  I had a breakfast burrito, strawberries, apples, yogurt with granola and blueberries, and orange juice.

This is a picture of the breakout session held by Denver Urban Gardens.  They have nearly 120 gardens in the Denver-Metro area, promote farmers markets, and teach children how to grow and eat well.  Some of the people in my group attend Fairview Elementary, where they have a farmers market selling food they grow at the school.  So cool!

After I handled my academic work for the day, I had to go to Denver Park.  Still the best place ever.

Met up with these two at this abandoned mini-golf course.

I filmed Shardy nail it.

Then onto this spot.  I really hate how short the days are getting, it makes it so hard to skate more than two spots in a day.  I'm going to start skating at 8 or 9 a.m. just to make the days count.

Dinner.

I came home after skating and arrived to find a surprise. Ryan Lovell sent me a package all the way from Kansas City!

I got an Escapist shirt, some budget whiskey that was half drank, a dollar bill, a tech-deck, and other random stuff.  I'm really excited to go out and film in this shirt.

Then I went to a Halloween party.  No, I didn't dress up.  Mason did though.  Eazy-E.

Keith was Wayne.  He is also holding the cutest puppy ever.  Thanks for hosting again Keith.

 Tyler was a cat-burglar.

Omar was the karate-kid.

Mike as Bob Dylan.

Ryan and Steph as dead people (?)

Natalie as a tootsie-roll, Joey as himself wearing a sombrero.

Broken Hands and Vomit

I had a my last midterm Friday morning, so I celebrated by getting a really good meal at Vitamin Cottage.  Vegan enchiladas and kombucha.  

After lunch I met up with Ryan at Denver Park.

He was killing it!

The Greer's showed up too.

We checked out this spot.  There's a couple options here.  It's always fun to at least try to skate new things.  It gets pretty hard when you skate the same city all the time, but there is definitely stuff around if you're willing to look and try.

Classic spot, although this day is for sure my most memorable moment here.  Justin was trying a trick on the hip, and after trying it for a bit he had a meltdown, throwing his board and screaming.  We've all been there, but this time was particularly interesting because he chose to punch a concrete pillar at the spot.  He broke his hand, and was immediately in pain, and definitely couldn't skate anymore...

He begins walking away from the hip, and starts throwing up everywhere!  Here's proof!

He laid down after a while, lit up a cigarette and some of the devil's lettuce, and was feeling a bit better.  Lesson learned the hard way J-Greer.  But definitely a new classic story.

After that I went to The Shop.  Tony and Whitney hard at editing.

While they were doing stuff, I looked at the new Thrasher.  Such a good one!

David has a new ad.

Grant Taylor kills it!  Skating the middle of a rail!? Wow.

This photo is insane.  I didn't really get it until I read the caption.  He gaps out past that curb.  He must have been going so fast to clear that distance.  So good!

Tony updated his iPhone and was freaking out that he lost his Angry Birds app.  Old people should not use technology.

Then I caught dinner with Whitney, Paul, and Alex.  The dinner conversation was hilarious.

Also, rumor is The Denver Shop has a semi-locked down premier date of December 29th at The Mayan.  3 years in the making, I'm very excited about this.

Saturday

Woke up real early and met up with Justin to catch up.  Still the best dude out if you were wondering.  

Then we picked Mason up and cruised to Denver Park.  The Saturday morning crew at Denver park is pretty consistent and awesome.

Vitamin Cottage is one of my new favorite places.  Good stuff, good prices, what's not to love?

Then we met up with Joey and Whitney at the RTD station.  Kicked out practically immediately, like usual.  We should really never go here again.

Then this ledge.  The debate over this thing is wether it is a hubba or a ledge.  My argument is that it is a ledge because hubba's are down stairs.  Either way, it's tall and hard to skate.  Adam Brown tailslide this thing almost 10 years ago... wow.

Kansas City's Own

Ryan Lovell, the King of the Road legend, was in Denver for the weekend with his family. 

Here he is with his lovely girlfriend, Loren.

We migrated to the piano bar, Sing Sing.  Ryan was so excited about it he yelled at Loren.

It was Ryan's brother's birthday.  Happy birthday Rob!

My song request that I don't think they fulfilled.

Always great seeing anyone from Kansas City, best people out there.  Lovell is sending me an Escapist shirt for me to film in for their new video due out in Spring 2012.  Should be fun!

Two Spots

Met up with the dudes at this spot.  Ledge and a gap, nothing exciting.

But there was this cool parking block thing happening there.  Alex and Garret got down.

Great minds think/dress alike.

Police station ditch.  Fun and shady.  I can't believe we came here so much this summer when it was 95+

Garret, Joey, and Whitney watching stuff on the iPhone.

Garret's senior photo is now handled.  Your parents can pay me later.

Jesse showed up.  Really good to see him again.  He crushed this spot.

Then I saw this man walking his dog while lifting weights.  Pretty weird.

Insanity

Solo session at Denver Park.  Felt really good to be there nice and early, it had been too long.

Then, I went to Vitamin Cottage, where I bought a new water bottle, and some good food.

Met up with Joey to head to the new Montbello park.

Yep.  Pretty concisely built, but it does have really good ledges to learn on, and some fun transition.  There were some hooligans there who tried to steal another skaters wallet and ended up throwing mulch at Joey.  There isn't much you can do when I child calls you a dumbass and throws things at you.

Nailing it.

Burritos!

Dave's insanity sauce.  A little too much for me.

Denver Store for hanging out.

We headed to these ledges.  Didn't accomplish anything but it was fun to dork around.

Then yogurt-land, which I tried to buy for Joey, but he wouldn't let me.  I guess it's not a date.  Friend-zone again!