The body of a skateboarder Walker Howell Morris, 20, who died of blunt force trauma after hitting a tree while longboarding after midnight on Missoula, Montana’s Sawmill Gulch Road was found by friends on the side of the road two days later, according to a story on Missoulian.com.
The friends last saw Morris at around midnight on Aug. 1, and his father filed a missing person’s report on Saturday when his son never arrived at a wedding he planned to attend. . . The friend told authorities that they had been drinking beers at his house Friday night and decided to go longboarding; before parting ways, Morris told his friends that he intended to skateboard home.
Sadly, this is the second skateboarder to be found by the side of the road this summer.
[Link: Missoulian.com]
I lost a friend 15 years ago doing the same in Simi Valley. Post beers skate home, hill no helmet. Great skater/surfer and bmxer. Skating in moonlight is very soulful and with a little buzz seems so harmless. So sad I am sure both skaters were very special with a lot of friends.
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