Henry Gartland has Passed Away

Well this is just brutal. Honestly, we went back and forth on whether or not we even wanted to write about this because it’s just such a bummer. We like for Dose to be fun as much as it can be, but in the end we felt like the legacy of Henry Gartland needed to be honored. Gartland, who was only 21, has passed away. We saw the news when it was posted by Santa Cruz, one of his sponsors. You can read their Instagram post on him here. It’s heart-wrenching to read.

Their post also mentions the National Suicide Hotline in the United States, so you can probably piece things together. That is always difficult to handle. We did not know Gartland. We did post videos that he was in. His talent is an afterthought in a moment like this. We don’t want to veer anywhere close to making this about ourselves, or about the skateboarding community. We lost a person at the age of 21. It never gets easy. R.I.P.