We start at Jesse's in the pouring rain.Weeks, Joe, Bart, Pat, Jesse, and myself get a little rejection in Jesse's garage. Next stop was determined to be the fullpipes. We get there and pull right in and everyone hauls ass to the pipes, looking back I see they are closing the gates and me and Joe park elsewhere and hike in, so I get a couple of shots and we are out. We make Mark Gee's in Charleston about 11 pm.

Sat morning begins with re barring the rest of the shallow end. We make it out to the Hanger about 10:30 and pull the tarp and start getting into it. This rattles some campers and we get a little session going. After a few hours we head over to Jon Horne's tree house bowl. It is literally a tree-house with a roll-in for access that leads to this bowl that should clearly be built from concrete but is wood and built quite well. We watch Jon, Science, Weeks, Joe, Jesse, Pat, Gee, many others take this thing apart.

We head back over to the bowl for the eve sesh. Benji, Science, Tim Johnson, Otis, Wags, our crew and various others commence to skate the sun down and we end up at the few fires that were around afterwards to grub on fried fish and shrimps.

The Warehouse: Pretty good bowl in this place. Apparently this place is setup with a bar, a stage, and a birch covered mini bowl. I believe four bands played including Gee's band Painsaver. The scene was crazy with everone in full costume music blaring and a overall good vibe. The session was off the scale. When we got there about 9 we all jumped in there and didn't stop skating until around 2. I stopped about 1:30 after I fully line backed some dude coming off the hip at full speed. I don't really remember walking to the truck, I do remember getting a beer to cool off and gathered up everyone to get out of there.

Sun we cruised to Wilmington to hit the Greenfield park and drag our sore asses home. It was a killer trip and about the best time skateboarding outside OBX that I've had in a weekend. Charleston has got a killer scene going and after some crete gets thrown around, should be that much better. We will be back.

Thanks go out to Mark and Elisa, Hank Berring, Jon Horne for the hospitality, Corbett for being a mad scientist skate terrain guru, Pat Clark for being coach and keeping us on point, and every skateboarder that made these sessions that much better.