Mountain Trails Foundation
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We are so grateful to be back out in the community, sharing the love, educating trail users, and making new friends. Last Saturday we posted up in the First Time lot of Park City and were grateful to see many of you out enjoying the trails and being great stewards of the land.
With the influx of newcomers, we see our meet and greets as an opportunity to start people off on the right foot. In the theme of Lora’s message, it takes a village. Inducting or fellow trail users in a positive way ensures that we can perpetuate good vibes on the trails for years to come.
Of course, we love to see so many of our members stopping by, reconnecting, and chatting. Our next meet and greet takes place on August 21th, we can’t wait to see you there.
The need for a helping hand on the trails has been highlighted over the last year as we see record numbers of users and new areas open to the public. As the saying goes; “you don’t know what you don’t know” and, with that in mind the City has hired its first Ranger, Jimmy Tart, to educate the public and ensure that we, as a community are sharing the trails in a responsible manner.
Jimmy is a long-time resident of Park City and if you are lucky enough to meet him, you’ll quickly realize he’s perfectly tailored to the new role. A ski guide, elite cyclist, avid hiker, and dog lover, Jimmy is aware of what it means to be a responsible trail user and what’s at stake when it comes to our continued access to and enjoyment of trails.
Of course, with a new Ranger in town, there’s an enforcement aspect which might come across as out of character to some. However, Jimmy wants everyone to know that he sees this role, first and foremost as an opportunity to encourage and promote positive behavior.
As Lora pointed out, it takes a village, and we hope this new aspect of our community nurtures a deeper sense of responsibility towards the trails we cherish.
After an unrelenting, hot, dry and smoky early July, this past week has brought monsoonal storms, giving our high desert dirt some desperately needed moisture and our lungs a little reprieve from the smoke.
With long-awaited approvals from stakeholders and necessary digging permits from the resort, the MTF crew was able to start work on two major new projects- both directional in nature.
The Mother Urban trail, named after a colorful character in Park City lore, will be a directional, “uphill only for bikes” trail (multi-directional for hiking) and will create a much needed alternative route up to the Mid Mountain trail from the heart of Old Town. It will utilize a good bit of the Treasure Hill parcel along with the adjacent Moosehouse/Gravedigger zone and should go a long way towards taking pressure off of both Jenni’s and Armstrong.
We’ve also broken ground- beautiful, rich, organic, black gold, in the north facing conifers of the Black Forest zone up at Park City Mountain. This new “down country” directional downhill and bike only trail, will create an early connection from Charlie’s 9K down to the Mid Mountain Trail. While it will be intermediate in nature, it won’t be lacking in fun flow and will descend for over two miles before meeting up with Mid Mountain just below the Pioneer lift.
We’re super stoked about both of these projects and are confident that they will greatly enhance the trail system as whole, by dispersing use, providing meaningful connections and creating multiple new route options. Oh, and there’s a pretty good likelihood that they will both put a smile on your face.
Rick
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by David Nicholas
Introducing the Park City Environmental Coalition.
In 2018 a group of environmentally conscious friends banded together to create the Park City Environmental Coalition (PCEC). Our mission – to promote collaboration with entities (ie, Mountain Trails) to improve our environment thru expanded recycling, enhanced litter management and the recruitment of volunteers committed to proactively making our community cleaner and greener. Our motto “we can all make a difference”.
We actively support Recycle Utah’s community cleanup programs thru sustained “grassroots” participation. In 2020 we fielded teams on 36 weekends. So far in 2021 we’ve been out 13 of the last 14 weekends. We are proud to say that our founding members (cc’d above) have expanded our “team” to 20 + regular volunteers. We look forward to working with Mountain Trails in pursuit of a more sustainable environment.
For those interested in volunteering please contact either Kevin Rail (435.729.0797) or David Nicholas (770.842.5426).
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