The First Dalton Skate Shop Board

The staircase board. The picture your see is a staple to the Dalton skating community. The staircase section is our own Dalton skate park and has been one of the greatest challenges for beginners who are willing to Ollie over the staircase. Since then, it has become a great spot for an outside skateboarder to come and try out in our local area. Since I can remember, the staircase was the tallest and scariest part to go down when trying to jump it or going down the ramp for its steepness. Since I was 14 years old, I struggled to overcome it with so many falls and bails from it. It has also been around for the longest and made the spot well known willing to jump over a staircase. Anyone in our local skating community can recognize the spot. To me it’s absolutely one of the challenging parts to jump over and I've seen others do it like nothing.

The design was made by Pablo Rodriguez, a local skater who was a close friend of ours since opening the shop in 2021. He showed us the design, and we were willing to print them ourselves, but after researching how difficult and expensive it'll be. We left the design in our google drive and have never opened it since.

After moving to Fort Hill in 2025, I was sweeping through files in google drive and under the project section I remembered seeing it and thought why wasn’t this out? what happened to it? and how come it was never talked about again?!  My goal since then was to get these printed by someone knowledgeable in doing them well and with quality boards. By the end of the year, I have been working hard in contacting skating companies that were able to print them out but was left shorthanded with a bunch of fees and image issues that made them bring unable to be printed. Till one email came up in my inbox about a sale. Get 50 decks with no set up fees and shipping fees. I sent the dude the image and said “totally we have someone that can make this image into a better quality. Then that November comes by and there here, and they were much better in person rather than the draft picture of the working layout of it.

Coming of the year 2026, I’m hoping to have more designs with Pablo for other spots our local skaters know about and get more Dalton merch. If anyone knows a great shirt printing company let me know!!

Pablo Rodriguez Insta: @pablolmk

Dalton Skate Shop: @daltonskateshop

Mark Reyes, Owner