Cowbells clanged as terrain park contests returned to Cranmore last Sunday after a season of darkness brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
With supportive spectators on the sidelines and overhead on the quad, nearly 20 teens, tweens and groms took to Reed’s Progression Park on the South Slope to twice navigate a slope-style course with small to medium features like jumps, rails and boxes in the first of a three-event Cranmore Park Series.
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