The crowds can be modest — three or four who happened to be in the area — up to a hundred-plus.

Either way, Randy Juarez and his fellow inline skaters are going to have some fun and at the same time see if they can promote the sport they love across the region.

In what has been dubbed the largest inline skate event in the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Shred Tour comes to the Olympic Peninsula in late June.

About 15 pro skaters and several amateurs are scheduled to visit the Sequim Skate Park on June 23 as part of the pro tour, says Juarez, a pro skater from Moses Lake.

Among numerous stops throughout the Northwest, the tour hits Port Townsend and Sequim on June 23, then Port Angeles and Forks on June 24. (See www.facebook.com/Northwest-Shred-Tour-843384975690422/ for more information.)

“It’s just whole bunch of guys, old and young, … (who) come out to ride the parks, all to promote the sport,” he says. “We like to skate, show off for some kids and promote our sport.”

Juarez says he expects skaters and support crew to be in Sequim around 2 p.m.

“We’ll skate until we run out of daylight there,” he says.

Pros will be on hand to meet with youths, sign autographs, talk about inline skating and more. There also is a trade show component that Juarez likens more to a swap meet, and some Northwest Shred Tour stickers will be on sale with money raised going to an overall prize pot for an inline skating series.

“Most of the stuff (on sale) is there for athletes to say they were there,” Juarez says.

The 2016 Northwest Shred Tour saw skaters cross hit venues throughout Montana.

“Sometimes have only three, four kids come out (so) this year I volunteered to to get the word out,” Juarez says.

No stranger to the Olympic Peninsula, Juarez says Sequim was a regular stop for a sales job he held while he and his wife were living in Tacoma some years back. The job saw him selling various “wholesale” items out of the trunk of his car.

“Remote control cars that would spin around, Samsonite TVs, fix-it-tool sets … every week it was something different,” Juarez recalls.

Juarez grew up in California but moved to Moses Lake at age 12 and picked up skating at age 16. He originally wanted to play hockey, but his family couldn’t afford ice skates so he started playing roller hockey. A chance encounter in downtown Spokane with a couple of skaters — at least one who will be joining Juarez on the Shred Tour this June — keyed him into what some call aggressive inline skating.

“I saw someone slide down a rail on roller blades … and then I did it on my first try: That was a rush,” he says.

A couple of years after picking up inline skating, Juarez turned pro and starting placing in competitions. But, as he notes, “It doesn’t pay a lot of money, like skateboarding,” so Juarez now works as a heavy equipment mechanic in Kennewick.

While he isn’t skating, of course.