My early rise and trek to the rolling hills of Poway, Calif. began at 7:30am. With the skies still a bit gloomy with marine clouds, I rolled up the highway toward the Pump Station hill with Michael Brooke already chattering in his gleeful patter about how much he was looking forward to the day we

Skaters began to arrive and they all signed waivers and dropped a few bucks in the donations bucket we