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 - TERRAIN PARK MANAGER
Age: 29
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Snowboarding: 20
Years Working at Schweitzer: 15
Favorite Trick: powder slash
Favorite Run: far left Pucci Chute
Playlist: anything from Neil Young to Wu-Tang Clan
Hobbies/Interests: Travel, cooking, mountain biking, backpaking, retail
Last good decision you made: take a vacation
Favorite Food: Vietnamese
Last Injury: Torn ACL, MCL, and Meniscus
'07 Highlights: Buying a house, Poorboyz shoot, employee of the year
Words of Wisdom: Brush and floss, pull that e-brake
Shoutouts: My girlfriend Kendrea, Stomping Grounds crew past and present, Josh at Oakley, GZ Boardshop, my family for always supporting me, Biff and Snail for hooking up the crew, all my good friends who stick by me even when I don't call or write for months at a time, my supervisors and co-workers for helping me along the way, and my dog Chachi - a man's best friend.
BEN SPINNEY - LEAD RANGER
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, Baby Mama, Ol Dirt McGirt
COLE GOLLEN - PARK BUILDER
Age: 24
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Riding: 12
Years Working at Schweitzer: 10
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: 20
Years working at Schweitzer: 6
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
NICK RIZZUTO - PARK RANGER
Age: 21
Hometown: Spokane
Years skiing: 19
Years working at Schweitzer: 4
Favorite feature: 44' Magnum
Favorite trick: switch cork fiver
Favorite movie: Grandma's Boy, Family Guy, and 300
Playlist: Hyphy Bay Area, Weezy, Zombie, basically anything, including country
Typical day riding: wake up, get some coffee, shred pow if it's there or head to the park and ride the stuff I build. Then jib at night.
Interests/Hobbies: skiing, Comedy Central, friends, chicks, working for Spinney Bent, video editing
Talents: 71, teeter-totter
Shoutouts: Columbia Sportswear, Smith, Sports Creel, GZ, Spinney Bent, Mountain Mafia, L77, mom and dad, the whole crew, Parker Hemmingway
JAKE ADAMS - PARK RANGER
Age: 23
Hometown: Coeur d'Alene
Years riding: 12
Years working at Schweitzer: 6
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!
MORGAN EISEN - PARK RANGER
Age: 27
Hometown: Woods Hole, MA
Years riding: 9
Years building park: 3
Favorite trick: Frontside lipslide
Favorite feature: wallride
Favorite movie: Superbad
Playlist: System of a Down, hank Williams III, Ween
Favorite pastime: the beach
Interests/Hobbies: Traveling, ancient civilizations, emergency medicine, natural medicine
Shoutouts: Unity Snowboards!
