The Pineapple Express that bombed the BC Coast and Interior ended up as a powerful Chinook in Calgary. Temps hit 10 C and the Sun was out. I took a few hours out of my “spoken word” tour hosting avalanche safety seminars and giving talks to skate. It was like somebody hit the relief valve and I got reset. Skating does that to me.
The full pipe, deep, and shallow end at the Calgary Skatepark. The full pipe has 15' trannies, the deep end is 12' or 13' deep with a solid 2' of vert. The concrete is rough and bails are burely. I broke my left patella (knee cap) while doing a frontside air in it back in 2001. Yes I had knee pads on. I have to admit, I still think about that when I drop in there. I actually took this photo in September. There was lots of leaves and shit in there today. I ended up mostly skating the clover and huge street zone.
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