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| 10/6: Spectator Area Flatwork |
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| 10/4: Coming Soon |
| The wall-ride with tombstone is ready to pour |
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| 10/4: Volunteer Day |
| Board Vice Chair Ric Widenor and Airspeed’s Stephanie Mohler direct young volunteers from the Boulder Skate Team, as they clean up the jobsite |
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| 10/2: Finished Manual Pad |
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| 10/2: Vert Extension |
| Conpleted outside wall extension on the deep bowl |
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| 10/2: Manual Pad |
| Gabe removes the forms |
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| 9/30: Final Wall |
| Forms for the faux-brick wall and tombstone |
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| 9/29: Deep Bowl Backside |
| Formed and ready |
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| 9/29: Final Flat |
| Ready to pour |
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| 9/29 |
| Scott wets down the earth of the last remaining flat to be poured |
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| 9/27: Paradise Paved? |
| … or paved paradise? Gotta go with the latter |
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| 9/27: Imposing Massif |
| Cradle backside |
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| 9/25: Fall Color |
| … and perfect weather for building a skatepark |
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| 9/25: Overview |
| The skatepark from across the inlet |
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| 9/25: Final Touches |
| … on the front edge of the cradle shell. From left, Stephanie, Melissa, Geth |
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| 9/25: Skateable Backside |
| You can skate this cradle inside and out |
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| 9/25: Daily Maintenance |
| Scott cleans out the shotcrete pump |
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| 9/24: Street Area Deck |
| … and more |
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| 9/24: Back of Cradle |
| Ready to shoot |
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| 9/19: Volunteers |
| NEDSK8 Vice Chair Ric Widenor and two members of the Boulder Skate Team help level the deck surfaces |
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| 9/19: Deck Work |
| Nick applies finishing touches to the deck around the pool |
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| 9/18: Street Pour |
| Another section of the street area perimieter was poured today |
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| 9/17: Steet Area Progress |
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| 9/17: Final Work on Flow Bowl |
| Scott, Melissa, Michelle and Chris perform final work on the last pout of the flow bowl |
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| 9/17: Flow Bowl |
| Final section |
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| 9/17: Upper Cradle 2 |
| Michelle, Geth, Stephanie |
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| 9/17: Upper Cradle 1 |
| Melissa, Nick and Geth |
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| 9/16: Done! |
| Geth and Stephanie can stop to take a breather |
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| 9/16: Street Pocket |
| Busy day, with three separate areas poured |
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| 9/16: Final Touch Up |
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Michelle and Melissa finish up the corner
Bet you won’t find many skatepark crews with three gals finishing concrete …
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| 9/16: Deep Bowl |
| The final corner of the deep bowl poured |
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| 9/16: Son of Abominable Concrete Man? |
| The predictable results of working in the cloud (Justin) |
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| 9/16: Cement Cloud |
| Justin shoots the first layer of the cradle dome |
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| 9/14: Cradle Progress |
| Gavin and Chris working on the endoskeleton |
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| 9/14: Wheaties Man? |
| Or just horse play? Gavin and Justin pose in and on the cradle’s endoskeleton |
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| 9/13: Cradle Crawl |
| Geth works on the cradle’s endoskeleton |
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| 9/13: Cradle Skeleton |
| The main support pipes are in place |
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| 9/12: Cradle |
| This was the “easy” half |
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| 9/12: Street Pour |
| The first street bank was poured on the 11th |
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| 9/12: Just Like the Coast of Oregon! |
| Mother Nature is making the Airspeed folks feel at home |
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| 9/11: Busy Site |
| But a task for everyone |
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| 9/11: Lower Cradle |
| Gavin warms freshly-shot concrete, while Geth shapes the bottom of the cradle |
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| 9/10: Great Pyramid of Nederland? |
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Close enough.
Geth, Chris and Gabe put the finishing touches on the street area pyramid
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| 9/10: 1st Street Area Pour |
| Nick, Scott, Ryan and Gabe level the top of the pyramid |
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| 9/10: Progress |
| Melissa, Justin (top) and Geth |
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| 9/10: Deus Ex Machina? |
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… or a creative way to shoot a difficult area?
Geth guides Justin on a rotating perch, as they shoot a corner of the deep bowl
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| 9/10: Synchronized Trowling |
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Watch for it, at the next summer Olympics
Chris, Justin, Michelle work the top of the bowl
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| 9/8: Pyramid |
| Ready to pour |
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| 9/7: Moving Along |
| Michelle and Justin set rebar at the base of the cradle for this week’s pours |
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| 9/7: Mini Bowl |
| The flat is left unpoured to discourage “poachers” |
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| 9-5: Keepin’ Warm |
| How to stay warm on a cold Nederland afternoon? By wielding picks, rakes, shovels and other implements of destruction … |
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| 9-5: Street Form Work |
| Chris, Scott and Nick set forms in the street course |
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| 9-5: Creatures of the Mist? |
| Clockwise from foreground, Gabe, Chris, Geth, Melissa, and Michelle work a section of freshly-poured transition on a cold and foggy Nederland morning |
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| 9/4: Helping Out |
| NEDSK8 volunteer Scott Lickstein cleans cement finishing tools |
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| 9/4: Mini Bowl |
| The Airspeed crew finishes up the mini bowl transitions |
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| 9-3: Final Touches |
| Geth and Melissa finish smoothing the second hip of the flow bowl |
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| 9-3: Hub of Activity |
| The 2nd pour of the flow bowl is underway |
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| 9-2: Final Prep |
| Melissa and Gabe make final preparations for the next day’s pour |
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| 8/30: Sic Skating Ahead |
| Michelle and Gavin clean up after the pour |
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| 8/30: Finished Pool |
| Well, almost – add a deck, some pool coping, maybe some stairs … |
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| 8-29: Flow Bowl |
| Friday the 29th saw the first pour of the flow bowl. Geth, Scott, Nick Stephanie and Michell work to shape the concrete |
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| 8-28: Final Touches |
| Geth and Stephanie near completion of the pool |
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| 8-28: Abominable Concrete Man? |
| Nah – Just Gavin taking a well-earned break |
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| 8-28: Shallow End |
| Scott, Justin, Geth, Melissa, and Stephanie work the shallow end of the pool |
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| 8-28: Concrete the Hard Way |
| When the last truck pulled away, and more concrete was needed, Gavin sprang into action. As the afternoon wore on, he began to look like his work … |
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| 8-28: Troweling |
| Scott and Michelle trowel from above |
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| 8-28: Busy Jobsite |
| From left: Melissa and Chris check the depth of applied shotcrete, Geth levels the wall, Gavin removes excess concrete from the pool floor, and Justin applies more shotcrete |
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| 8-28: Shotcrete |
| Justin shoots the pool – completed in a single day |
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| 8-27: Dirty Work |
| Justin mans the shotcrete gun during a test pour |
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| 8-27: First Pour |
| Justin and Gavin begin shooting a preliminary pour, to get the kinks out before the pool is shot on the 28th |
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| 8-27: Flow Bowl |
| The flats were formed 8/26 |
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| 8-27: A Cradle is Born |
| Beginnings of the cradle |
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| 8-27: Mini Bowl |
| Melissa sets the coping for the mini bowl |
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| 8-25: Some Serious Vert |
| This vert’s for you, Tony! |
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| 8-23: It Has To Go Somewhere |
| Stephanie hauls off the dirt excavated from the street area to place around the wall perimeter |
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| 8-22: Working in Tandem |
| Geth and Nick excavate the street course |
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| 8-22: Nick Cruizin’ |
| What’s not to smile about? The street area is almost cleared |
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| 8-22: Ready for Mud! |
| The rebar has been placed and tied in the pool |
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| 8-21: Nathan Lazarus |
| Geth Nobel shows Nathan how the big Cat works, during Nathan’s site visit on August 21st |
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| 8-20: Flow Bowl |
| The steel coping that will form the rim of the flow bowl is being placed |
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| 8-20: Stick Farm |
| The pool and deep end of the flow bowl sprout wooden forms around their rims |
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| 8-16: Pool |
| Gavin & Scott set forms for the pool |
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| 8-16: Bowls Emerging |
| Forms are being set for the pool, while in the foreground, the flow bowl takes shape |
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| 8-14: Construction Site |
| … as seen from across the inlet to Barker Reservoir |
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| 8-14: Trail Rebuilding |
| The rebuilding of the Barker Reservoir Trail is nearing completion |
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| 8-11: Walls Complete |
| Well, almost complete … |
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| 8-9: Trail Reconstruction Begins |
| Geth begins moving fill material for the Barker Reservoir Trail, which should reopen in a few days |
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| 8-7: Pool Area |
| The wall enclosing the pool is virtually complete |
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| 8-7: Thumbs Up |
| “Goin’ well,” says Gavin |
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| 8-6: Break Time |
| Hey, nice shirt, Geth! |
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| 8-6: Retaining Wall Progress |
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| 8-4: Steady … |
| Nick and Justin guide a block into place |
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| 8-4: Laboring in the Trenches |
| Gavin and Dillon work to level the gravel bed for the block |
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| 8-1: Finished Corner |
| More progress on the walls with the first finished inside corner |
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| 7-31: Slowly But Surely … |
| … the walls rise. Slow delivery of the blocks has been a problem, but once the pool area is enclosed, work can begin on the pool, while the blocks continue to trickle in |
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| 7-30: Boulder Wall |
| A wall of boulders forms, which will raise the elevation of the Barker Reservoir Trail alongside the skatepark |
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| 7-29: Walls Rising |
| With the 1st course of blocks and the french drain in place, the walls are beginning to rise. Here, Geth discusses progress with NEDSK8 Board member Paul, while Dillon packs up the laser |
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| 7-29: Eat My Dust |
| Melissa dumps a load of gravel, as Geth, Dillon and Gavin wait to spread it |
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| 7-29: Spreading Gravel |
| Dillon, Gavin, Geth attack some gravel, while in the background, NEDSK8 Board members Paul and Stephen discuss the one that got away |
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| 7-29: Out, Out, Damn Rocks! |
| Melissa, Nick and Justin mine for boulders |
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| 7-26: The Master |
| Geth moves a retaining wall block into place |
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| 7-26: Giant Legos |
| Melissa and Dillon guide a block into place |
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| 7-25: 1st Course |
| The first course of Redi-Rock snakes it’s way around the perimeter of the park |
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| 7-25: Unloading |
| Scott fastens a chain to a Redi-Rock block |
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| 7-24: 1st Load |
| The Airspeed crew prepares to unload the 1st truckload of Redi-Rock blocks |
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| 7-22: Break Time |
| Clockwise, from lower-left: Gavin, Melissa, Dillon, Scott |
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| 7-19: Prep for Walls |
| Geth and Dillon prepare the bed for the block walls |
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| 7-17: Drainage System Is In |
| Drain pipes keep a vigil over the job site |
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| 7-15: Day 1 of Construction |
| Geth and Gavin dig trenches for the drainage system |
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