The reply from Rob Walz, one of the head honcho's at Cade, to my email regarding Duane's removal.. (standardized email, but with my name..)
Brandon,
I’m sure that many of you are aware that I cannot log on to cascadepark.com, some of you wanted me to contact you through the forum, but I can’t. I hope you will post this for me. It may answer some of the questions that many of you have.
I knew that letting Duane go was going to upset a lot of people. That’s no surprise to me. He’s been building the parks at Cascade for 4-1/2 years, and has built quite a reputation. And I’m sure you will agree that the level of the parks has gone up considerable since when I used to do it. Duane grew up here, and I hope that you don’t think that this was easy for me to decide. And I do say me, as I did have the final say so. I would ask that you not pin this on anyone else.
As far as the “Indy Boys” many of you (maybe not you) but riders, commented on how they like the effort put into the parks the last few weeks and that was both the new guys and Duane. So please give the guys a chance. Before you make your decisions about how good or bad the park will be, please try it first. Then comment.
I know that many of you want an explanation why. I am sorry, that I will not answer that now or in the future. Some things are not for public knowledge. I know you will think that it’s not fair and that you deserve an answer. But we’re just not going to have that conversation. You have the right to your opinions and I will listen to them. But I won’t be able to answer all of them.
If you do have opinions about the park or how to make it better, I would encourage your comments. I did not take this step today to upset the local Cascade’s riders. I took it to make some changes that I felt were going to assist Cascade in moving forward, getting better and being able to continue business in the future. Unfortunately that decision did not include Duane. I know that my decision today upset a lot of people, and that was not my intent. But I do hope that you will still try us in the future and base your future riding decisions on the product that we give you, rather than on the people we use to make the product.
I look forward to you comments, if they are comments that I can use to improve the parks at Cascade.
Thank you,
Rob Walz