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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 - 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

 

 

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