Upland

I had a few hundred pics just like this one stuck on the walls of my room as a kid. This one happens to be Mike Smith, at the Upland skatepark.

Upland is one of those places that I always imagined I would get to skate. Part of lifes journey, part of the quest. Upland was the skateboarding equal to climbing a mountain of your choosing. By all accounts Upland was big, rough, epic.






It was torn apart before I even got out of Ohio. Years later, I have made it here to California.
The skate parks here, now, seem very safe and tidy. Little concrete patches for little kids to roll around on.

So, anyway...