![]() He has also helped build three on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He’s seven years into his self-appointed mission to bring high-end skate parks to every city and town in Montana that will have one.Īment has paid for, or helped pay for, 27 skate parks, most of them in Montana. Yes, that Jeff Ament - the bass guitarist and a founder of Pearl Jam. It was paid for by the Montana Pool Service - a name in reference to the large bowl at the center of a skate park - a foundation funded and operated by Jeff Ament. This is also a new capital of world-class skateboarding, and a nearly 13,000-square-foot, $300,000 skate park called Thunder Park. This is not the Montana where the wealthy are building ski-in and ski-out mansions or refurbishing a trout stream on a new ranch.īrowning is the capital of the Blackfeet Nation, where the rolling, grass-covered high plains collide with a steel-gray wall of snow-dappled mountains on the Rocky Mountain Front just south of the Canadian border. By Jim Robbins Photographs by Todd Heisler Sept. 30, 2021īROWNING, Mont. ![]()
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