Geocaching Trail Ride

What a great time, we had!
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Geocaching 101 and Geocaching Trail Ride

Park City's Mountain Trails Foundation is offering outdoor enthusiasts an opportunity to learn more about one of the fastest growing outdoor hobbies, Geocaching. Mountain Trails will host a free introductory clinic on Wednesday, Aug. 1 plus a Geocaching trail ride on Saturday, Aug. 4.

Geocaching is a modern day treasure hunt utilizing a GPS receiver plus subtle hints to find hidden 'caches' at interesting outdoor locations. Park City is a hotbed for hidden caches, with dozens located along Mountain Trails' several hundred miles of bike and hiking trails in Park City.

Mountain Trails' clinics will be conducted by local Geocaching experts Tom Kelly and Carole Duh (Tumbleweed and Cactus) with nearly 400 caches found.

"Geocaching has really enhanced our travel and especially our outdoor recreation by taking us to interesting places we would never have known," said Kelly. "And for newcomers to the hobby there's no better place to begin than the trails around Park City."

The introductory clinic will be 7:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1 at the Park City Miner's Hospital. The mountain bike trail ride will meet at the Starbucks at Kimball's Junction and run from 9:00-11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4 utilizing only the flat trails in the valley, so it's perfect for any level rider.

The Wednesday clinic will include a short introduction to Geocaching and use of a GPS receiver. The trail ride will be a hands-on opportunity to find actual caches along the Park City trails. The introductory clinic is not required and enthusiasts are welcome to attend either or both of the free clinics.

Participants are encouraged to spend some time at www.geocaching.com to learn more and to register for a free Geocaching login. It's also recommended you have a GPS receiver. And a mountain bike or cruiser bike is required for the trail ride. The Geocaching trail ride will be designed for beginning riders.

"GPS receivers are really handy for outdoor trail riding or hiking," said Kelly. "For newcomers, I recommend Garmin's eTrex line, especially the new Garmin eTrex Legend Cx. Magellan's Explorist line is also very good." GPS receivers are readily available at outdoor stores, including REI in Salt Lake City which offers the best line and expertise.

More introductory information on Geocaching is available at www.tumbleweedandcactus.com. No advance registration is required for the free clinics.

Kudos to all!

"Carol,

I am continually amazed by the courtesy and etiquette demonstrated by other riders and hikers on our mountain trails. It has been better the last couple of years. Is it seasoned riders? Is it just contagious? Don't see many equestrians. It would be nice to provide some positive reinforcement for these folks.

Mike "

Trails are in great condition but it is really, really hot out there so don't forget to take plenty of water,sunscreen and your trail manners.

GPS Class

Tuesday June 26th
7:00pm at Miner's Hospital
Do you have a GPS and don't know how to use it?
Are you thinking about buying a GPS?

A Global Positioning System is a fun and accurate tool
that can help you navigate through backcountry terrain or
even down city streets.

Join REI navigation expert John Higgins as he unveils the
mysteries of this fun and fascinating piece of technology. This
presentation will cover an introduction to the GPS system,
types of GPS receivers and their common use, and basic GPS functions. This presentation will be an excellent primer for people
who are looking to get started with GPS use.
Location:
Miner's Hospital (Historic) 1354 Park Avenue,
Second Floor, Park City
Contact:
John Higgins at 801-486-2100 for content. Contact Mountain Trails foundation for additional directions at 435-649-6839

Online Trail Map

Our new 2007 Trail Map is now online and we are so happy.
Let us know what you think

Trees on Holly Flanders

The trees that were reported down on Holly Flanders have been cleared!
Keep our trail crew up to date. They read this blog.

Trail Report and fallen trees

Mid Mountain Trail is open but there is still some deadfall. Crews are heading up there next week.
Colin's Trail is reported to be in the best shape ever!

Also we have a report of Lower Holly Flanders last weekend from Ambush and said there are 2 large pine trees down across the trail at the bridge that Mountain Trails built over the gully 2 years ago...if you happen to be up there and remove these trees ....let us know

Also if you have any trail reports, please comment or send us an email.

Trails Sunday May 20

Most Trails are in excellent mid summer type conditions. There is still snow on Mid Mountain and lots of deadfall and our trail crew will hopefully get out there this week and we look to opening it next week.
There is work at The Colony and a new trail Empire Link is being created between Park City Mountain Resort, through Talisker as Deer Valley installs a new trail and new snowmaking at Empire Lodge
Please be patient and respect that Mid Mountain Trail is all on private land
Head over the new Flying Dog Trail at the Preserve

Park City is a Bicycle Friendly Community!
!
What is a BFC
Mountain Trails
Park City Municipal
Basin Recreation
Summit County
Womens Mountain Bike Camp
League of American Bicylists

Cinco de Mayo Results
Womens Results
Mens Results

League of American Bicylist Press Release
Just in time for Bike to Work Day
Five Communities Earn BFC Status
Cities from Austin, Texas to LaCrosse, Wis. Recognized for BicyCle Friendliness
Washington, DC - Five cities across the United States can celebrate Bike to Work Week with the news that the League of American Bicyclists has awarded them the coveted designation of "Bicycle Friendly Community." The award, given at levels from Bronze to Platinum, recognizes those communities that are improving conditions for bicyclists and bicycling.
Five cities are awarded the BFC designation for the first time:
Silver
Austin, Texas San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Bronze
LaCrosse, Wis. Park City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah
Fifteen communities successfully renewed their designation.
Gold
Corvallis, Ore.
Silver
Fort Collins, Colo. Scottsdale, Ariz.
Bronze
Ada County Highway District, Idaho Ann Arbor, Mich. Beaverton, Ore. Bend, Ore. Burlington, Vt. Cary, N.C. Chico, Calif. Denver, Colo. Mesa, Ariz. Redmond, Wash. Schaumburg, Ill. Shawnee, Kan.
"We salute these communities for their tremendous commitment to improving conditions for bicyclists," said Andy Clarke, executive director of the League of American Bicyclists. "They are making the streets safer for bicycling, educating bicyclists and motorists to share the road, promoting a wide range of bicycling activities and even stepping up the enforcement of traffic laws to protect bicyclists."
Notable features of this round of applications include:
Austin, Texas recently updated their 1998 bicycle plan, and included $2 million in bicycle-specific funding. The city offers weekly Road I courses, has a maintenance hotline, and promotes bicycling year round.
San Luis Obispo, Calif. has a strong cycling culture and recently created a safe and fast route into downtown from the south side of town, allowing cyclists to avoid a high-volume, narrow right-of-way arterial.
LaCrosse, Wis. has a strong education program. All schools have extracurricular activities centered around cycling, and the school district provides bicycles and helmets for use at elementary schools.
Park City, Utah is a great town for mountain bicyclists, and understands the importance of connectivity in the bike network. The community also has a Complete Streets policy that will be implemented starting this year.
Salt Lake City, Utah has a great bicycle culture and a strong Complete Streets policy that was initiated by the mayor in January 2007. With improvements planned for its cycling infrastructure and great in-town mountain biking, this city has a lot to offer cyclists.
About the BFC Program & the League
The BFC program was initiated in 2003 and has received applications from more than 170 communities. Designations have been awarded to 63 cities and counties. Applicants complete a detailed on-line form with numerous questions in five key areas: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation/planning. Local cyclists, national experts, and League staff review the applications. To learn more, visit www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org. The League of American Bicyclists promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and works through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. The League represents the interests of 57 million American cyclists, including its 300,000 members and affiliates. For more information or to support the League, visit www.bikeleague.org or www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org

Thanks to all who helped with our application
Park City Municipal Corporation
Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District
Summit County

What's it all about?
The Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign is an awards program that recognizes municipalities that actively support bicycling. A Bicycle-Friendly Community provides safe accommodation for cycling and encourages its residents to bike for transportation and recreation. The League of American Bicyclists administers the Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign.
See you at Bike to Work Day

......and if you haven't had enough fun...join us for Pride in Your Park Day...
Saturday May 19th Gather at The Gazebo at City Park at 8:30am
Get your trash bags and head out to your favorite trail. Rotary Club of Park City will be doing serious work on the Rail Trail Head at Bonanza but there will be many places to contribute. Lunch at the park at noon.
Sponsored by Park City Municipal and Recycle Utah
See you there


June 2, 2007 National Trails Day...
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Sign up NOW for Women's Mountain Bike Camp July 7 and 8
They will be accepting 40 women and 27 have already signed up!!!

Happy Trails !!

Carol PotterMountain Trails


Mountain Trails PO Box 754 Historic Miner's Hospital 1354 Park Avenue Park City UT 84060

Spiro

Chatted with some mountain bikers on Saturday evening. These trails are really getting dry.
Spiro is clear to the top and there are still a few snow patches on Mid Mountain but with these record setting temperatures and brilliant sunshine it won't be long til it is open all the way through.
Bike to Work Week...
Get ready for Bike to Work Day Friday!

McPolin Biker Babes Bike to Work Day 2006

It's Bike Week! Sign up for the Commuter Cup Challenge!
Hey! Let's go for a bike ride!
Commuter Cup Challenge
Kids Bike to School and Noon Rail Trail Fun Ride at NoMa
Gather at Squatters

Quick Links
Mountain Trails
Park City Municipal
Basin Recreation
Summit County
Cinco de Mayo Results
Womens Results
Mens Results
Bikers!
Join us at Bonanza and the Rail Trail on Monday Morning May 14 at 8:00am to cheer "Biking Bo" Pitkin as he races KPCW Traffic Commander Tom Terry ("Tom, Stuck in Traffic") as they commute from Quinn's Junction to the Marsac Building. See you there! Bring your Go Bo signs!
Photo by Sarah Ause Park Record




Bike Week!

Poster pdf printable size
Bike Week

Bike to Work Day Commuter Cup Challenge
Print out Registration
Friday May 18, 2007
Continental Breakfast at The Yarrow sponsored by Park City Chamber Bureau 7:00-9:00am

Continental Breakfast at Basin Rec Field House sponsored by Basin Rec, Wild Oats 7:00am-900am

Noon at NOMA Fun Ride on the Rail Trail sponsored by White Pine Touring

Cruiser Ride Meet at Cole Sport 5:30pm
Cruise the Park City Neighborhoods and end up at Squatters. Great Prizes drawn at Squatters.

Park Record Article May 9, 2007


High Fives to Sophie Frankenburg who has organized the Ecker Hill Bike to School Day. Sophie has over 100 kids and a bunch of parents to Ride to School on Friday May 18. The Kids will have three locations to gather to join the Bike to School Train accompanied by parents and escorted by Park City Police and Summit County Sheriff Departments
(Thank you, Thank you)

Kids will meet at The Yarrow, Willow Creek Park and Basin Rec Field House and then across 224 to Kilby Road

McPolin Kids are being organized by Mark Shaerrer of Park City Police Department and Hugo Meza . Please watch for details.


McPolin Biker Babes 2006 Bike to Work Day




Cruiser Ride from Cole Sport and Gather at Squatters Friday evening
Join us (our City Council has been invited to join us) at Cole Sport at 5:30pm on May 18th for a flat ride through our neighborhoods and ending up at Squatters where they will have a bunch of specials and we will draw for our awesome prizes. We will also celebrate the opening of Squatters new deck. Come on, join us and make this a joyful celebration
......and if you haven't had enough fun...join us for Pride in Your Park Day...
Saturday May 19th Gather at The Gazebo at City Park at 8:30am
Get your trash bags and head out to your favorite trail. Rotary Club of Park City will be doing serious work on the Rail Trail Head at Bonanza but there will be many places to contribute. Lunch at the park at noon.
Sponsored by Park City Municipal and Recycle Utah
See you there


June 2, 2007 National Trails Day...
.

Sign up NOW for Women's Mountain Bike Camp July 7 and 8
They will be accepting 40 women and 27 have already signed up!!!

Happy Trails !!

Carol PotterMountain Trails

Comment from Tom Peak

My first response!! Great 5K event on Sat despite the weather. Our town is really connected. We had a wonderful turnout for the Colby School Cinco de Mayo 5K as well as the Young Riders / White Pine bike swap and even the hazmat dropoff at The Canyons!! Gotta Love This Place
Tom Peek

Trail Signs

Newsletter of Mountain Trails Foundation

Cinco de Mayo 5k Results
Mountain Biking Magazine
Bicycle Friendly Community (That would be us!)
Beyond Huge week
Cinco de Mayo 5k
Mountain Biking Magazine
Bicycle Friendly Community

Quick Links
Mountain Trails
Park City Municipal
Basin Recreation
Summit County
Welcome to our obsessively published newsletter.
Cinco de Mayo 5k
The less than perfect weather conditions did nothing to diminish the spirits of the Cinco de Mayo 5k and the joyful exuberance of the 265 partipants at The Colby School.

Age groups were filled with happy runners and walkers as participants slogged through the extremely beautiful and well maintained McLeod Creek Trail.

Winners Michael Barrile (20:39) and Kelly Milligan 20:53.4 led the pack and despite the snow and cool temps the rest of the field was almost all smiles as they crossed the finish line at The lovely Colby School. Cheerful volunteers from The Colby School and Mountain Trails Foundation were greatly appreciated as were sponsors The Colby School, Zions Resort Bank, JANS and White Pine Touring, Alpine Signs, Clif Bars and Utah Beer .
It was a sea of sombreros at the finish line which helped keep the snow out of eyes!
Womens Results
Mens Results

Pick up the latest edition of Rodale's Mountain Bike Magazine and peruse this
article by Andrew Vontz. Andrew came to Park City last September as
a guest of Mountain Traills and Park City Chamber/Bureau.
Though it was another snow incident during Tour des Suds, Andrew did get to spend two days with local riders and this article is the results of the visit.





Bicycle Friendly Community! Breaking News!
In late breaking email news! Park City has been named a Bicycle Friendly Community Bronze Level for 2007

We applied for this designation and we thank our partners Park City Municipal, Summit County and Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District for their help in this application.

The Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign is an awards program that recognizes municipalities that actively support bicycling. A Bicycle-Friendly Community provides safe accommodation for cycling and encourages its residents to bike for transportation and recreation. The League of American Bicyclists administers the Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign.
Bike to Work Week May 14-19 and Commuter Cup Challenge May 18, 2007

Bike Week. Get out of your car and ride your bike. Work on your carbo footprint. Sign up for the Communter Cup Challenge which take place on May 18 both in Park City, Snyderville Basin and Wasatch County.
Sign up your company atMountain Trails Foundation website

June 2, 2007 National Trails Day...Details forthcoming. There will be four events in our area.
The Rail Trail, The Preserve, Swaner Nature Park and Rockport State Park.
Happy Trails !!

Carol PotterMountain Trails

Here comes spring....again

Yes, we are back into late winter conditions but looks as if this system is heading out and we should be back on the trails very soon.

Park City Municipal, Basin Recreation and Mountain Trails are all working together to create an alternative trail in Round Valley. The trail is indeed on private property and there are three more private lots adjacent and even more private lots above. Watch for some trail building activity over there.

Summery temps

WOW! What a glorious day here in Park City...temps in the 70s and more of that beautiful Utah Sunshine
Trails are really drying out fast. All the hardsurface trails are in fine shape and very busy
Next level trail ie Lost Prospector, Glenwild, and Round Valley are almost dry
Still snow on the north facing and higher trails....

Well, it is truly mud season here in Park City. Trails are soggy after Sunday's rain, snow, hail afternoon. However, it looks like this weather will soon be outta here and we will return to early season trail conditions.

Email your County Commissioner

Bob Richer bricher@pureutah.com
Sally Elliott sally@tellsally.com
Ken Wolstenhume kwolstenhume@summit.ut.us

Park Record article March 31, 2007

Plan for 3rd lane scares cyclists
But another lane on S.R. 224 could cut congestion
Patrick Parkinson, Of the Record staff
Reducing traffic congestion at Kimball Junction might make bicycling in the area too dangerous, trail advocates say.
"We did a really good job with these very wide shoulders and they're very used by the bicycle community and we would hate to have a chunk of that taken out," Mountain Trails Foundation chief Carol Potter said. "I want to make sure that, for these bicyclists, what we've got we keep."
At issue is whether striping three lanes instead of two on each side on State Road 224 from Cutter Lane to Interstate 80 would cut rush-hour gridlock.
"It's not the perfect solution," Summit County Engineer Derrick Radke said. "Any kind of bike traffic would have to be traveling in the same lane (as cars)."
County officials planning to widen the highway hoped transportation money earmarked this year by the state would help fund the improvements.
"[The state] basically told us that most of those monies are earmarked for other projects," Radke said.
But a third lane could be added to S.R. 224 when the road is resurfaced this summer, he said.
"I don't see it as a big deal," Radke said.
Still, the plan puts bicyclists at Kimball Junction at risk, Summit County Commissioner Bob Richer said.
"There will be no shoulder for bike traffic whatsoever," he said. "I'm just very concerned about eliminating bicycle traffic from that area."
Commuters have a difficult enough time cycling from Snyderville to Park City, Parkite Todd Henneman said.
"Instead of making room for more cars, how about have a nice lane so people can use alternative transportation," Henneman said. "How about other ways to unlock the gridlock by not putting more cars on the road? It's almost a no-brainer."
The road shoulder provides cyclists "enough room there that we can actually feel somewhat comfortable not being so close to traffic," he explained.
"If people feel a little more safe about using their bike to ride in from the junction, they might be more inclined to do it," Henneman said. "I ride that road enough to know that I don't want the shoulder to go away."
To accommodate growth, traffic studies in western Summit County show nearly $100 million in road improvements could be necessary within 25 years. The plan includes widening S.R. 224.
When they meet Wednesday commissioners could decide whether to eliminate the road shoulders.
"It sure is appealing because it really would help us move more cars faster," County Commissioner Sally Elliott said. "I'd love to hear from the bicycle community."
According to Radke, "in order to get this done, we've got to act fairly soon."
Act Now!!! It is important that comment and show a unified voice for the cyclist community
The Shoulder on 224 is the best thing we have going.
Eliminating this shoulder is a step backwards.
Encourage the commission not to seek this early funding. This will leave the shoulder as it is.
Studies show that adding lanes increases vehicular trafiic.
We support more Active Transportation.
One less car is exactly what we are looking for..

Nice snow...More mud

We have several inches of new snow and even more on the mountain tops.
Forecast calls for a warm up and sunshine later in the week...so

Trails are muddy....will be muddy...please stay on the roads or head to Salt Lake City or Moab for your bike rides.

Equestrians are asked to stay off the trails until they dry out.

Thanks, everyone.

Mud

From Basin Recreation:
Date: Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Everything groomed was groomed today. There are extensive bare spots on East 224 Trail beyond the barn towards Redstone. Other than that the snow is in good shape!!!
Willow Creek Loop 5K groomed
East 224 Connector Trail 2K groomed from Willow Creek to neighborhood playground
McLeod Creek Trail 2K groomed from Willow Creek to Old Ranch Rd

Ecker Hill Middle School 1 mile groomed yesterday.

Bob Radke