This past weekend started out like most others.  Our friend, and intrepid filmer Brian Shannon aka B-shans made the move Montreal from his hometown of Burlington on Thursday, so we decided to gather a few skaters together and hit some new spots.  Brian had his car in town and we had heard that there were a few good spots in this town just north of Montreal so we decided to drive up and check it out.  Looking back it maybe would've been better to see a few pictures of these spots first before committing to going there.  After getting stuck in traffic for several hours we arrived at the town to find out that the spots we had heard were really amazing actually weren't terribly photo or footage worthy.  Undaunted,  Josh Clark and JS Lapierre skated around a little bit at least and had a bit of fun before we got back in the car to head back to Montreal.

Bshans

JS flies down the massive grass gap with a Nosegrab and a smile

While Josh pulls out an Early Grab

Slightly bummed out from our "not so productive" day, we decided it would be good to shake things up a little bit and go visit some friends in Ottawa for a few days to see some old friends and get a taste of some new spots.  The next morning,  Josh, JS, Chris St-Cyr and I all hitched a ride up to Ottawa with Sam from Mehrathon Trading.

Shortly after our arrival we met up with our buddy Mitch Barrette who would be showing us around town for the weekend.  No time was wasted and we started cruising the city checking out possible spots.  Coming from Montreal, I'm always surprised by the number of quality spots that Ottawa has to offer, especially considering that its a bit of a smaller city.  Mitch took us to one particular gem that used to be hit pretty frequently a few years ago.  The city tried to skate proof the spot by adding in metal railings but in doing so, they created a new spot by leaving a bit of a gap at one point.

Mitch perfects his close filming technique while Josh threads the needle with a Crook to fakie.

Another amazing spot we came across was this bump to barrier located in the parking lot of a mall. This spot was pretty crazy!  To skate it you had to be towed by a car across the parking lot and then hit a super skinny concrete patch job at full speed, then go up a steep bank, and then fly over a huge concrete barrier.  Definitely an intimidating spot.

Josh flies up and over with a frontside 180

We finished up our weekend in Ottawa at another spot that used to be fairly prolific and has now seen a new resurgence in skate activity thanks to a recent de-kinking.  The Geurtin 12 is a pretty beefy rail and is definitely no joke.

JS warms up with a Frontside Lip.

Tired and sore from a good weekend we packed up all our stuff into Mitch's car and headed back to Montreal.  On a pitstop along the way JS decided to pay tribute on a wall to our gracious host Mitch.

Thanks Mbou bou!