Boards, Bling, Road Trips

 New Board! This comic is excellent. I tripped out when I saw Bacon had the comics as their graphics. Bacon boards are excellent, they hold up till the grip falls off. I have two old nasty ones that are technically still rideable, I just couldn't keep riding them, they got sweat-dripped and puddle soaked and the miscellany.



The top actually looks really nice too. If I were the type who put fresh boards on my wall I'd get a few more. I've been trying to figure out if I can stain old decks the same color as some furniture, while still being able to see the old graphics, damage and stickers. I'd want some badass lounge chairs and an ancient looking chest, with matching decks on the wall.


Also, not that this is a side-note, I got engaged.




Three day weekend at Lake Delton this weekend! I'm joining in on the fiancee's family reunion, and they're renting a cabin less than a mile away from the park! They won't understand, but I'm going to sneak out for at least a few sessions. It's awesome when you get to ride a park several days in a row, you get such a better feel for the place.

Anyway, going to try to post more, but I need to take more pictures. Think I'm going to do a friends/acquaintances post, and link to the Chicago people I've found as I lurk through the internets. There's a lot of us out there, and we should all link each other up!

Lake Delton!

So I finally made the trip up to Lake Delton, a skatepark by Dreamland. It's right next to the Wisconsin Dells, and there's even a state park with camping about a half mile away. I will definitely need to make a return trip to this one. The concrete was uber smooth, and every inch of the park was made skateable. When the builders poured up to the edges of the park, they didn't just leave it flat, or build a wall, they put in transitions or banks.



This is the sweet sweet bowl, (after several attempts at stitching photos.) It's a little hard to see but there is a love seat sticking out of the wall on the right, which I was able to carve over. The love seat was fun, but it actually breaks up the flow of the bowl. The coping is the way pool coping should be, which makes me really how strange Wilson's coping actually is.



That guy's arm is actually like that, I swear. Behind him is a psuedo-brick quarter with a really steep transition. The entire park was skateable. I'm definitely going to have to head back!

Slightly bigger versions can be seen here.