CREWS
BEAVER VALLEY SNOW PARKS CREW — BEAVER VALLEY, ON
The Beaver Valley Snow Parks crew maintains an expansive and diverse array of terrain, including a top-to-bottom park with more than 40 features that are changed-up weekly, a progression park, a cross-course, a minipipe, a groms mini park, a hike park, a moguls course, and an airbag training site. Last season, the small team—a core group of three: Caleb Bosse, Jordan Bender, and Elliot Black, assisted by a weekend support crew—custom built venues for 16 different events. Beaver Valley’s terrain parks were some of the first to open and last to close last season, says nominator Steve Jarrett, adding that the crew are “uniquely amazing” and known for their “fun, innovative, safe park builds.”
GUNSTOCK TERRAIN PARK CREW — GUNSTOCK MOUNTAIN RESORT, NH
Gunstock’s terrain park crew maintains a signature park, a progression park, and an “adventure slope” day and night. “Most of the people on the team treat the job as a lifestyle, not work,” says park crew manager Nick Imhoof. In addition to Imhoof, the crew includes: Kayla, Will, Branden, Zack- ary, Keith, Garret, Aidan, Justin, Vincent, Owen, and primary park groomer operator Andy. “What makes Gunstock’s park crew unique and amazing is their passion for what they do and where they do it. They are all living the dream—doing what they love at a place where they feel a connection,” says marketing director Bonnie MacPherson.
CASCADE PARK CREW — CASCADE MOUNTAIN, WI
Cascade’s park crew takes a collaborative approach to planning and designing features for the mountain’s three parks. This allows for “flow but also creativity” and efficiency, says crew member Eli Engel. The crew also takes the time to connect with the end users. “When the crew is out on shift riding and maintaining our parks, we enjoy talking to the customers and our community,” says Engel. “One thing about our crew is we enjoy teaching and showing riders how the feature they are riding is made.” In addition to Engel, this crew includes: Zack Antonie, Dylan Konopacki, Brandon Moldenhauer, Mason Ashley, Hadley Jones, Caden Hixon, Jude Kunkel, Kevin Schufreider, Carsten Small, Max Acker, Joey Thomas, and Matthew Zander.
THE CARINTHIA CREW — MOUNT SNOW, VT
The Carinthia crew is responsible for building, designing, and maintaining 100 acres of terrain and 80-100 features spread across eight parks on Mount Snow’s all-parks mountain face. “All park fea- tures are custom-built in-house by the talented Rob Black and Shaun Murphy, ensuring the parks are as unique as the riders who use them,” says Courtney DiFiore, Northeast senior communica- tions manager for Vail Resorts, which owns Mount Snow. The team consists of 11 hand crew, six cat operators and two individuals in leadership roles, including: Black, Murphy, Adam Tease, Nicky Stevens, Kevin Ramsay, Brendan Bauer, Jesse Goodnow, Justin Hongell, Zach Boyd, Chris DeJohn, Levi Sornson, Judah Kondracki, Jon Dittrich, Lacey Zeranski, Chandler Bergstrom, Nick Eori, Macklin Allen, Timmy Sullivan, and Tyler Dlubac.
WOODWARD ELDORA PARK CREW — ELDORA MOUNTAIN, CO
Five snowcat operators and 10 hand crew members make up the Woodward Eldora park crew that builds and maintains more than 100 features spread across five parks. The team has more than 70 years of combined terrain park experience, says park manager Kevin Sprecher. They hold them- selves to a high standard, he says. “We are constantly pushing each other to grow and improve our skill sets so we can further our career paths within the industry.” They can also be counted on to support other departments because, says Sprecher, “we are all one big team, and that is how we operate and set ourselves apart.” The team includes: Sprecher, Chris Hobson, Beau Baynum, Chase Green, Dom Puzevic, Jeremy Keyser, Derek Reisbeck, Greyson Neff, Arlen Riggs, Aiden Defelice, Tyler Puisello, Heather Hannigan, Cody Neil, Aren Ross, and Damon Jensen.
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