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here are 34 skateparks in Vermont, and I’ve skated every single one of them,” says Holden Barth, 25. Barth is a Burlingtonbased social media manager for a number of companies including Vans Snowboarding and Howl Supply. Last summer, he and freelance photographer Peter Cirilli (who has worked for the likes of Burton, Darn Tough, Thrasher Magazine, and
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Nordica to name a few) set out to skate every park they could find in Vermont. Inspiration came from Anti Hero Skateboard’s 2004 video "Tent City," in which the skateboard team travels across Australia, from Brisbane to Melbourne, camping along the way. Barth and Cirilli now have plans to turn their quest into a book. “We get stuck in this cycle up here in Burlington of skating the waterfront
(A_Dog), skating Winooski, and then skating, you know, Essex every once in a while,” says Barth. “But it's kind of a routine. A_Dog is amazing...but there are also moments where I'm like, ‘I want to try something different.’” To identify all of the parks scattered throughout the hills and valleys of Vermont, Barth enlisted the help of friends, social media, and Google Earth. The result was a Google Maps
tab with each of the 34 park’s locations —and a burning desire to skate them all. “It was an opportunity to take the common space of skating with your friends to a new location,”says Barth. “And then everyone gets to sit there and try to figure something out. Everyone has a different style. Someone's better at transition and someone else’s has got a really good ledge game. So, you can sit back and watch how they approach
