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: Young enough to get carded, old enough to be happy about it}
Hometown: Sandpoint
Years Snowboarding: Twenty-three or so
Years Working at Schweitzer: 18ish
Favorite Trick: Powder slash
Favorite Run: Tagline
Hobbies/Interests: Travel, cooking, reading, backpacking
Books; Music; and Movies: “Sometimes A Great Notion,” “Fast Food Nation;” Waylon Jennings, Pete Bernhard; “Super Troopers,” “American Gangster”
Favorite Food: Sriracha, I put that stuff on everything
Last Injury: knee #4, I didn't even know I had that many
'09/’10 Highlights: Late June snow camping in the Selkirks, Pacific Coast road trip, scuba diving and island hopping in Belize, snowboarding 110+ days last season
Words of Wisdom: Read a book, learn to turn, shut your mouth, take a vacation, eat right, buy local, and take your headphones off & listen once in a while
Shoutouts: My girlfriend Angie for being awesome, all my great friends, Stomping Grounds crew past and present, my family for always supporting me, Eric at Oakley, Spinneybent, Biff for hooking up the crew, my co-workers and supervisors for helping me so much along the way, and Chachi & Kaija – man’s best friends
Mike Brown - Lead Park Ranger
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
Tyler Whaline - Park Ranger
Matt Kennedy - Park Ranger
Joe Zornick - Park Ranger
