Longboarding out to the west...
Aug. 16th, 2015 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylA gentle afternoon hanging out in west Devon, doing a spot of bouldering and recklessly endangering ourselves with a spot of longboarding. Mikey, master of all things outdoorsy and risky, showed us how it was done:
Although our attempts were but a pale shadow of the master, both E and I manage to hold on to our nerve long enough to make it to the bottom of the straight track. Although unlike everyone else — all apparently completely fearless — we both balked at the hard left turn down yet another hill that took them off through one of the farm buildings. We also declined to start from the top of the hill on the main road — something to save for a more suicidal session — but that didn't stop it from being good fun and didn't do anything to strip away our feeling of achievement...
Although our attempts were but a pale shadow of the master, both E and I manage to hold on to our nerve long enough to make it to the bottom of the straight track. Although unlike everyone else — all apparently completely fearless — we both balked at the hard left turn down yet another hill that took them off through one of the farm buildings. We also declined to start from the top of the hill on the main road — something to save for a more suicidal session — but that didn't stop it from being good fun and didn't do anything to strip away our feeling of achievement...
