Hitting the road is part of Volcom’s DNA and if we go for too long without a roadtrip we start to go stir crazy. So just as we began to feel enwrapped by an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia, we started planning a loose route through the southwest assembling a solid crew to join us on the journey. Milton Martinez, Collin Provost, Omar Hassan, Mathias Torres, Alec Majerus, Simon Bannerot, CJ Collins, Peter Hewitt, along with snowboard legends Jaime Lynn and Scott Blum on their Harleys, joined Remy Stratton in the #VolcomYOTA along with Tom Remmilard keeping Peter company in his own vehicle, while Wanderlodge driver, Jarrod Pimental aka ‘Road Rage’, manned the wheel in the skate van.

Normally skate trips consist of going from city to city, hotel to hotel and hitting all the spots we can fit into the timeframe. But on this trip we were camping every night for 2 weeks, which meant finding a camp spot on the outskirts of each city and hitting spots for a day or two. 

In Tucson we got a little relief from the cold by staying at Premise Skatepark, sleeping where kids would have their birthday parties. Simon's birthday fell on one of our days in Tucson and the session at the ditch spot with 3 pipes sticking out was all time! Initially we were going to try and go to El Paso, TX, but opted out after hearing that most of the city was shut down due to the pandemic, so we decided to just skip it and head to Albuquerque where the spots were plentiful. Big shout out to ‘Jake da Jeweler’ for all the hospitality!

Due to the epic spot selection Milton Martinez was on fire, dropping hammer after hammer, jumping off of overpasses, gapping out to grinds down double kinks and hitting rails on the fly while getting kicked out, all in the same day! After a few days in Albuquerque, NM and some heavy footage logged we kept it moving back west. ‘The Muscle’ which consisted of Snow team riders Scott Blum and Jaime Lynn with his girlfriend Dini on Harleys, motored ahead and found this tight little pool in the middle of nowhere in Arizona right off old Route 66. After digging out the sludge it was ready to rip just in time for the skate teams arrival. It also served a secluded camping spot. Later we found out that it was an abandoned zoo that was next to some Apache death caves!