The lush summer session happened in the Hope valley and the surrounding countryside deep in the rainiest backroads of the Peak District. Si, Kim and I arrive and get ferried straight to one badass slide hill, where we proceed to chill with 20 odd other sliders, and throw the first of some wicked sick tricks. Back to the bunkhouse, shotgun our beds, Lush do dinner (pasta I think) and the local garage does cider.
Sharing cider has never been so fun; the invention that was produced out of the necessity to share cider between 50 longboarders on opposite sides of the large room, and the desire to not waste a drop allowed the almalgamation of sports drink technology with the finest 2 litre Wrongbow(Trampagne, strongbow, call it what you will). SPORTS CIDER (brand name sportsbow) is a 2 litre bottle of the apple-based drink with a sports cap on it. This was amazing, we spilt none, and it was thrown merrily around the room with no fear of spillage. Try it, you might just get drunk!
So the first full day of riding dawned; 9am we shook off the slight hangovers and looked out on inclement weather. Kitting out with pads, gloves, and at least 2 boards per person we ventured into the unknown. Stuff happened in thins kind of order:
Skate, rain, skate, lunch, skate, skate, skate, drink, food, drink, drink, sleep.
Sunday morning welcomed us with pouring rain. Pouring pouring rain. So we did these:
Skating skating skating, complaining about the weather, skating. Then lunch! The end of the day for me as i got 3 fingers shut in the van door. Fun!
Even with dented nails throbbing regularly, it was an aweosme experience that brought the three of us riders closer, and made us all better; gave us a bigger picture and skills to aspire to. The details are hazy, but this was over a year ago now so all thats left is the sense of euphoria, the feeling of Longboard brotherhood, and good memories. including sledging down the face of an earth embankment dam covered in sheep poo. Good times! Respect to Lush and everyone that was there!
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