The Stomping Grounds Terrain Park is dedicated to keeping you safe and ensuring you're riding the best features in the best park in the Pacific Northwest. Our Park Rangers have tons of experience both building and riding features. Meet the Stomping Grounds Park Rangers:
DAN NYLUND - FREESTYLE TERRAIN MANAGER
Age: ([8+12(10+6)+(8 * 5)] /8) + 1
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Snowboarding: twenty-two or so
Years Working at Schweitzer: 17ish
Favorite Trick: powder slash
Favorite Run: Tagline
Playlist: Depends on the task at hand. Driving: Waylon Jennings, Breaking crap in my garage: Social Distortion, Dancing: Tennis at The Crossing, Riding: I just hear what everyone else is listening to.
Hobbies/Interests: Travel, cooking, reading, backpacking
Last good decision you made: kept the silver bullet
Favorite Food: Sriracha, I put that stuff on everything
Last Injury: knee #4, I didn't even know I had that many
'09 Highlights: Selkirk Tangiers Heli Trip – Thanks Bob, Building a deck on my house – Thanks Cole and Doug, Dirt biking in Oregon, Rock& Roll Bingo
Words of Wisdom: "Read a book, learn to turn, shut your mouth, take a vacation" & "Take your headphones off and listen once in a while"
Shoutouts: All my great friends, Stomping Grounds crew past and present, my family for always supporting me, Eric and Josh at Oakley, Spinneybent, Biff for hooking up the crew, my co-workers and supervisors for helping me so much along the way, and my dog Chachi – man’s best friend.
BEN SPINNEY - Fabricator
Age: 28
Years Snowboarding: 15
Years Working at Schweitzer: 11
Favorite Trick: flat spins
Favorite Run: Bob's big air jump
Hobbies/Interests: building and racing monster trucks, operating my metal fabrication shop, Spinney Bent Fab.
Favorite Food: Anything spicy
Movies: Monster Man
Last good decision you made: saved my shack
Last Injury: razor burn
'07 Highlights: spending time with my son, working on pit crew at Top Truck Challenge, and surviving a near death experience racing my truck
Words of Wisdom: stay in ya lane
Heroes: Al Rhodes from Top Truck Challenge, Rob Zombie
Shoutouts: Noah Spinney, Brookie, Ol Dirt McGirt
COLE GOLLEN - PARK BUILDER
Age: 26
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Riding: 14
Years Working at Schweitzer: 12
Favorite feature: Chair 2 Mound, Darth Fader
Playlist: Jackie Greene, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dylan
Favorite trick: Blind Melon
Typical day riding: Ipod charged, E Trees to Bell Rock to Chair 2 Mound
Favorite movie: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Talents: Felling timber
Favorite pastime: skating my miniramp
Interests/Hobbies: Playing banjo, Roam boarding the Monarchs
Shoutouts: Teague Mullen, my folks, my brothers, and all my friends
Two pennies: It's for the children
COLE LINDSAY - PARK RANGER
Nickname: Crazy
Years skiing: 22
Years working at Schweitzer: 8
Favorite feature: The Green Manalichi wallride
Favorite trick: butters
Trick tip: loosen yer boots
Typical day riding: straight to the back for some soft landings, then some park laps
Favorite pastime: monsterboarding in the Selkirk highlands
Favorite thing to do at Schweitzer other than ride: drink beer, look at footage
Secret talent: I can turn my arm around 360 degrees
Rider you respect: Erich Kunz because he's always laughing and always creative.
Two pennies: In a world of simian-like copying of others, you must strike out. Constantly be adapting, constantly be evolving. The world is always changing. Either you're changin' or yer dyin'. Less is more, stay pure, stay poor. Nor-Ida
JAKE ADAMS - PARK RANGER
Age: 25
Hometown: Coeur d'Alene
Years riding: 14
Years working at Schweitzer: 8
Favorite feature: Chair 2 Mound
Favorite movie: snowboard videos
Playlist: I have a girlfriend
Favorite trick: Sank Itch
Typical day riding: shred, eat, shred, drink, shred...
Interests/Hobbies: boardin', snowmobiling, hiking, wakeboarding
Secret talent: it's a secret
Shoutouts: Evil Snowman, SpinneyBent.com, The Nothing
Two pennies: Get out of the landing!
TYLER BARRETT-FOX - LEAD PARK RANGER
Age: 30
Years Snowboarding: 8
Years Working at Schweitzer: 6
Favorite Trick: Polish Donut
Favorite Run: The Tripple Nipple
Hobbies/Interests: camping, hiking, traveling, eating good food
Favorite Food: anything organic
Last good decision you made: becoming a Buddhist gangster
Last Injury: shattered ego
Words of Wisdom: Act Right!
Shoutouts: Yo!
Mike Brown - PARK RANGER
