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Mt. Baldy (Badlands)

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Cost: Free, unless you get caught
Hours: 24/7
Directions:
Watch the first 20 seconds of the video with a map of the area. You can find it.

BALDLANDS

Ergo
Dude we're going to Baldy. You gotta go.
We might even find Chin there.

Wallbanger
It's only a Chin mission if you skate
all the way there.

Ergo
I dunno...dawn patrol...Mt. Baldy?

Wallbanger
Well you might find Nancy Chin,
or Buck Chin, but Animal Chin is
going to be way underground.


From here is looks like an ordinary entrance to a 16ft full-pipe.


The grafitti on the walls help to disguise from peeking cops.
Simply hold yourself against it for insta-camo.

So we didn't skate all the way there, but in the excitement we did forget to get breakfast. The adrenaline and a few cans of the champagne of beer we definitely got close to finding Chin. Steve had the place figured out from the get go, but eventually the rest of us figured it out well enough to get the crazy rough bottom reverb going strong. Wallbanger even did a layback air.


The Hell-Hole, you have exactly that much room coming out
of the pipe before you fall down the garbage disposal.

When you ride the pipe the noise is so powerful that as you leave it you can still hear yourself skating after you stop, or maybe it's Chin back in the darkness.


(from bottom left: Brainy, Dopey, Teckie, Pappy, Sleepy, Sneezy)

Walbanger
So where should we go next?

Ergo
Mt. Baldy?

Walbanger
That's where we just went.

Ergo
Oh yeah, that's what I meant.

I shot this right when we got there, I thought that I saw Chin, he disappeared into the blackness and never saw him entire session, yet he was there the whole time.

This deck was found deep in the depths of the pipe, could it be?

This would be Nancy Chin, the realtor.

All I want to mention is that I felt like I was in a time warp. The spot is as old as skateboarding and the two stoner 13 year olds locals brought me back even more. One was wearing a homemade D.R.I. shirt and the other one had a Jeff Kendall skateboard, I'm geussing 1990.... classic "fish" shape. Nothing beat their Coors-bottle bong though.

Mt. Bald-dong is rad, but next time I'll bring my mini cubics, the floor is too rough for regular wheels.

It was back to basics, turning and sliding, hoping that your board is under foot when you come down from above vert. As you roll through the "rumble strip" on the bottom of the pipe, the dust kicks up and makes your view hazy like a dream.... is that screaming lord salba up ahead of me? Or is it Chin?

rating 4/5

BALDLANDS VIDEO
Mt. Baldy

19.3MB | 2 minutes

Music: Minutemen
"This Ain't No Picnic"

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