Long Treks on Skate Decks

[hypergiant]

Traversing the High Atlas Mountains in early 2010, you would have found three very dirty individuals, pushing incredibly high-tech skateboards. In the attempt to circle the entire country by longboard, they lose their minds and go completely insane.

Paul Kent, Adam Colton, and Aaron Enevoldsen. Under the name Long Treks on Skate Decks, they pioneered long-distance skateboarding combined with documentary filmmaking (warning: expletives). Mixing their passions for the longboard, the backpack, human-powered transportation, and the video camera, they have longboarded 4500 kilometers through Peru, Bolivia, and Morocco.

There is no questioning that these trips are infinitely dangerous considering the amount of daily unknowns. Pushing uphill mountain passes, nearing starvation and sleep deprivation. Their average downhill speed is faster than that of a transport truck downshifting over mountain passes.They go into the road with wheels 12 times smaller than your average bicycle wheel, and no brakes, on mostly narrow roads with no shoulder lane. Inconsiderate drivers, mules, dogs, motorcycles, road rage, and domestic livestock have all run them off the road. They became broken down machines, with life memories and whole video series documenting their torture.

Trailer:

[hypergiant]

Long Treks Peru & Bolvia (16 episodes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSD...16E228FA680D8F

Long Treks Morocco (11 episodes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQlU1p7V7-E

Gestoorde gasten met een apart gevoel voor humor, maar heb wel respect voor hun prestaties en avontuur.

[Jeru]

Heftige shit op die kleine wieltjes.

[hypergiant]

Downhill..

[Sadix]

dit is leven als je het mij vraagt. Ik wou dat ik zo weinig zorgen en verantwoordelijkheid had om zo iets te kunnen doen.

[hypergiant]

Dat is wat ik ook dacht toen ik de documentaire bekeek. Je hebt een sterke wil en doorzettingsvermogen nodig om dit te kunnen doen.