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"45,000 square feet of concrete & still growing.".


THE LATE OCTOBER grand opening for the new Volcom Brothers Dedication Skatepark in Mammoth Mountain, CA couldn't have been on a better weekend--sunny and warm! Built by Grindline, it's one of California's first skateparks that matches top of the line parks in Oregon and Washington--45,000 square feet of concrete and still growing. Plenty of pool coping, a cradle, corners, trannies Trannies has several meanings.
  • Trannies is the plural of tranny, a colloquial form for various things like transistor, transmission, transparency, transvestism, or transsexual.
  • The Trannies were an online fan-culture awards show.
 built up to rocks on the outer edge, and plenty of nooks and crannies Noun 1. nooks and crannies - something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science"
nook and cranny

detail, item, point - an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"
 to suit your needs. The names of the skaters who showed up to support the park say it all: Omar, Hewitt, Suski, Navarrette, Busenitz, The Birdman bird·man  
n.
1. also One, such as an ornithologist, who works with birds.

2. Slang An aviator.
, Matt Dove, Whitedog, Grosso, Jerry Hafner, and a lot of the Volcom crew, along with the support from the Mammoth Mountain community. I didn't see a fence, and it looks like it's going to be free to skate.

AFTER THE OPENING, that night proceeded with a loaded bill of Skate Rock including Clay Wheels, JFA JFA Justice for All (criminal justice reform group)
JFA Japan Football Association
JFA Journal of Field Archaeology
JFA Jazz Foundation of America
JFA Jodie Foster's Army (band) 
, and Agent Orange. Thrasher's own P-Stone was ruling the pit and got MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip.  for the weekend!

A great park and atmosphere for the spring/summer weekend getaways with your crew, a cooler, and a tent, which can be hard to do in California.--Rhino
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Title Annotation:MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA
Author:Rhino
Publication:Thrasher
Date:Feb 1, 2006
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