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Terrain Park

Park Crew

 

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!

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