Natural Rock Sierra Shredding
Theres found terrain and then there’s found natural terrain. Outside of the Moab footage, this spot in Sierra Nevada filmed by Brandon Rein is the most skate able natural rock formation I’ve ever seen. It looks natural for the most part, but there are definitely sections that look like a concrete surface, which seems highly illogical. Brendon does not give any info however, so you’ll just have enjoy the clip. The skateboarding only makes up about a quarter of the footage in the entire video, so you’ll have to wait for it.
Upper Row River area (Cottage Grove, OR) has a bit of natural stuff, too. Weird skatebable lava-flows, though soft wheels are encouraged, low-water is mandatory, and beer is helpful.
Hit it in July, catch a swim or a fish, and continue south…
Have you seen this guy? If there was some way to harden the sandstone surface you could make something unbelievable. I wonder. Heat? Expoxy? Shotcrete would pobably not work without going all out with reinforcement etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_41M72uCzAk
Maybe it’s just some sort of attention span thing, but I personally like to keep my skating and fly fishing pure and disassociated. Then again, the most fun days I had fly fishing was before I I got slick at it. (And Nathan Fletcher had something good to say about that kind of thing, regarding surfing and maybe motocross, about doing the one you’re not good at actually being more fun.)