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: [8+12(10+6)+(8 * 5)] /8
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Snowboarding: a few, twenty some
Years Working at Schweitzer: 16 or so
Favorite Trick: powder slash
Favorite Run: Wayne's Woods
Playlist: you name it
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
'08 Highlights: Poorboyz shoot, Cutter's Camp, dirt biking, camping
Words of Wisdom: read a book, learn to turn, shut your mouth, take a vacation
Shoutouts: All my great friends, Stomping Grounds crew past and present, Cole Gollen - sandboarding champion, Matt and Chantel for being such great neighbors and letting me watch their giant TV, Spinneybent, GZ Boardshop, Josh at Oakley, my family for always supporting me, Biff and Snail 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 - 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!
TYLER BARRETT-FOX - PARK RANGER
Age: 28
Years Snowboarding: 6
Years Working at Schweitzer: 4
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!
