Friday, January 19, 2007

Basin Trails are awesome. New Sled on Monday

Date: Friday, January 19, 2007
Everything groomed this afternoon. Excellent winter conditions everywhere!!!!
Willow Creek Loop 4K groomed
East 224 Connector Trail 4K groomed from Willow Creek to Wild Oats and SBSRD Rec Center
McLeod Creek Trail 4K groomed from Holiday Ranch Loop Rd to Willow Creek, the section out to Old Ranch Rd is still in great shape

Mountain Trails new snowmobile will be here on Monday!

Screens



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TV Screens: Saturday night at 11:00pm check KUTV 2 for Reese Stein's Roughing it Outdoor feature on our Winter Trails Day snowshoe event. A snowshoe trip up Spiro is highlighted with interviews with White Pine Touring re the best snowshoes and Mountain Trails.


Movie Screens: X-Dance is showing Klunkerz and Roam Sunday night at the Main Street Mall.


Klunkers starts at 9:05pm

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Ready for Sundance

Basin Recreation
Ecker Hill Middle School 1 mile groomed today, excellent conditions

Mountain Trails groomed this morning from Promontory all the way to Wanship. The coverage is good as that canyon doesn't see much of the winter sun. Brrrrr!! There were a couple of thin spots the last half-mile or so before Wanship.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Sundance starts Friday!

WalkDance on the Park Record front page!!!
Thanks, Park Record!! Great Photo by Sarah Ouste
We attended an Open House presentation last night from Landmark Design with the list of 74 projects elicited from the Community Meetings! Next I believe will be the prioritizing of the projects and some funding sources. Click here (Park City Municipal) or here (Landmark Design) for more details.

Sunday night January 21 be sure to go to X-Dance at the Main Street Mall, 333 Main, looks great with two films that I know Mountain Bikers will enjoy....Klunkerz and Roam.. Check it out...the screenings are free. Klunkerz will be shown at 9:05pm followed by Roam
Basin Recreation grooming

Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Every thing groomed this afternoon and is in excellent condition.
Willow Creek Loop 5K groomed
East 224 Connector Trail 4K groomed from Willow Creek to Wild Oats and SBSRD Rec Center
McLeod Creek Trail 6K groomed from Holiday Ranch Loop Rd to Old Ranch Rd.

Rail Trail is groomed from Bonanza to Promontory

Sundance starts Friday.."Get out of you car and WALK!"

Monday, January 15, 2007

Winter Trails

Well, after the MLK Holiday we are looking forward to several fun things.

First would be warming temperatures! Yikes, it's cold out there

Second, Our new snowmobile should be here by the end of the week and we are looking forward to grooming the Rail Trail with this new piece of equipment. It is a four stroke Ski Doo...very green!

Third, we hope to soon be able to groom from the Rail Trail, under Highway 248 and onto Quinn's Recreation and Ice Arena. That will be so cool. You can drop the kids off at the rink and you can ski to the Rail Trail. We are working with Park City Municipal on this expansion of our Winter Trails network....Yay!

Saturday Night, at 11:00pm please watch KUTV Channel 2. Reese Stein will be featuring our Winter Trails Snowshoe event on Spiro.

Be sure to go to Mountain Trails, sign up for our new e-newsletter and give a donation through PayPal and become a member of Mountain Trails.

Cheers from chilly Park City!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Walkable/Bikable/ Sundance and Gary Fisher

We have a lot of fun coming up this week. First,an important meeting on "Walkable Bikeable Park City". This will be another step in the walkable plan. Landmark Design will be presenting the results of their phone survey and community meetings.

"Walking meeting planned"
Park Record Saturday January 13

Park City officials on Tuesday plan another in a series of open houses about walking and bicycling routes in the city.
The meeting is scheduled from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. The government plans to review the early findings of an ongoing study and says a preliminary list of projects will be presented.
The city in 2006 started a wide-ranging discussion about how to make Park City easier to navigate for people not driving cars and the upcoming meeting continues those efforts.
The meeting will follow a set of earlier gatherings, held in late 2006, when Parkites told officials and City Hall's consultants what routes they see as safe or unsafe.
For more information, call City Hall at 615-5001.

Here is the Landmark Design webpage with tons of information

Sundance begins Friday and new this year is "WalkDance". Mountain Trails, Park City Municipal and Sundance have partnered to create walking routes throughout Park City for the Festival. It became apparent to our Share the Road Alt Trans group last year that it was easier to walk to the different venues than using your car (definitely about impossible), or taking the bus. This year the Sundance program includes the walking routes on their map, there will be confidence marking signs with distance in minutes and Sundance volunteers will be well- educated in suggesting how easy it is to walk. Sincere thanks to Park City Municipal and Sundance for acting on this suggestion and bringing it to reality. Signs will be posted this week. We hope this will lead to more walkable routes within Park City and dove tail with the above Park City Walkable/Bikeable study

Slamdance
Gary Fisher comes to SlamDance and Park City

Klunkerz
Directed by Billy Savage A film by Pumelo Pictures
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a group of hippie/athletes from the San Francisco Bay Area took their cycling adventures off-road and turned a hundred year-old industry upside down. Their bikes, scavenged from dumpsters and junkyards, were affectionately known as Klunkerz. It was from these humble beginnings that a multi-billion dollar industry, a new form of recreation for the masses, and an Olympic sport were born.


Park Record article Fisher, films featured in x-dance
x-Dance films are at Treasure Mountain Inn. Will find exact times and post on this blog