Here's the big blowout of Skatopia photos:



looked at my kingdom, i was finally there



tour of the kitchen. none of those people lived there, and all were wasted


upstairs is the big bowl you've seen in many 411s


and the full pipe (best thing there IMO)


this woman brought her kids up to skate, and was passed out wasted


1 of 14 dogs






set up camp. pirate pete called us all homos for setting up so close to each other


the bowl is seriously fucking titanic


hahahaha


so huge





even got a rope to pull people back in, shit is no joke


finally the man who runs the whole shindig, Brewce Martin showed up drunk


this was posed


upon entering, we were told that one person from our crew had to get at least a shralp in the deep end, or else they'd park a tow truck in front of the entrance so we couldn't leave and "work us like niggers" according to the always politically correct Pirate pete.



Ray wanted to put in the hours at night, and got to work very fast


Mike was zipping around very soon into the session


supposedly there's a "secret" pool room under this trap door. i wanted to go down there, but i was told not to because there was people sleeping down there


jarrett was going for it backside, and this photo was not posed



this monstrosity awaits outside. we were told not to skate it because the metal was rusting and it was to be torn down on tuesday (lifted the photo from nonos blog, forgot to take a photo of it in the daytime.)


no one has ever gapped from the full to the vert. but many have gapped from the vert to the full


me and ray said shiner had to get at least a carve or else he was getting punched. he didn't get punched


pat got in there and went for it

in the end 6 of us got on the coping, Luke, Ray, V, Me, Pat and Jarrett got it backside, it was seriously epic (i'm sick of that word, but there's nothing else to describe that session). you'll skate that thing and your heart is just beating out of your chest, it's a feeling that i've never really felt on a skateboard before. Bucky Lasek probably feels it everyday and is over it

we went down to the campsite to drink some beers with the locals and get some zzzzs


pirate pete asked us if we wanted to see something cool in the field. he took us to see this enormous stage that is apparently being built "just for fucking Slayer to play on".



Pirate Pete and Smashley told some of the best stories I'd ever heard


there is legend of a Yeti that walks around Skatopia at night. we were told how they've heard it laugh in the middle of the night.


wake up to find out that we didn't have to walk anywhere to see that stage. oh well. at least i got to hear about pirate pete's uncle's monkey that fucked a whole bunch of cats



it just gets crazier and crazier


the locals that live there live in there selfmade shacks. no heat, no electricity, dial up internet AT BEST, and no plumbing. pirate pete said he was lucky to live there. nuts to think that 99 percent of the people you know would never say such a thing


Clearly one of the nicer ones


Brewce came to wake us up and make us do our hour of work that you have to do when you go there


we opted to just go to the museum and just spend a whole bunch of money instead of working, guess that's just as good


that's what a fire pit is like at Skatopia. like the big dinosaur turd from Jurassic Park


another shack


another shack


this shack belonged to the Mayor. he said that if we called him the mayor, we'd get punched right in the face


Green Jelly probably played on that stage


and off to the concrete park at the top of the hill. purple bus cemented in, no big deal






someone in the crew said that it looks like they just find a fucked up pipe and cement around it to make the place up, and whoever said that couldn't have been more right





the museum


wall to wall skateboards



there was a room with old clay wheel boards from the 60s, a room with just 80s boards with one tail, and another room with modern boards. totally fucking mindblowing







every wall, every ceiling covered.



right there is probably like 3000 ebay dollars










the old 80s vert ramp setting in pieces in the back was one of my favorite sights in the whole place




we took a climb up the hill go to skate with Brewce's son, Hellskull.


bs 360 tailtap over the hump first go


Brewce seemed genuinely bummed that he couldn't skate - he had fallen off a ladder the week before.



"topless, with a beanie"





we were too tired to even enter the church of skatin with boards


unfuckingbelieveable



trip over. totally unforgettable.