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Tour des Suds is back: Sunday, September 12th

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Join Mountain Trails, Level Crossing Brewing and 400 of your best MTB buddies for Park City’s classic party on bikes!

Until Saturday, $40 gets you a race number, lunch from Komrades Food Truck and suds by Level Crossing Brewing. TDS famous socks are still available with registration, but on a first come basis only – so register TODAY!

$50 day-of registration will be available, but we recommend you register now to beat the crowd, get yours socks and sleep in on Sunday!

PRE-RACE NUMBER PLATE & SOCK PICK UP at MTF’s HQ located at 5792 N. Highland Dr. Park City (first driveway on left, SOUTH of Silver Summit Pkwy, on the way to Highland Trailhead): Friday, September 10th from 9 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, September 11th from  9:00am – Noon

Tour des Suds is a 7-mile mountain bike climb starting at City Park. Go hard and treat it like a legit mtb race (yes, there are awards) or a crazy costume party on bikes. Either way, it’s 2,700′ of vert and 7 miles straight up to the finish line at the top of Guardsman Pass. No e-bikes please.

PS: If you have old TDS photos, we’d love to see them! Email ian@mountaintrails.org

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Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Meet and Greets are Back

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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.

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Park City Hires Trail Ranger Jimmy Tart

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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.

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Monsoons, Mothers & Black Gold

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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  

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Trails: It Takes a Village

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Message from the Director

In recent weeks, I have had the good fortune to work with an array of people who, in one way or another, have a hand in Park City’s trail system. They come from entities and spaces within the community that might surprise. For example: did you know that the Park City Chamber of Commerce is keenly supportive of the trail system? Or that the slightly less surprising, but still-not-obvious, Park City Fire District has a hand in the trails game? And what about that cool outdoor adventure teacher at Park City High School who takes kids out for trail work days and teaches trail etiquette? Seems everywhere I look, there is evidence that trails are an integral part of this Village. 

In 1992, Mountain Trails Foundation was founded to quell tensions and pave a smooth path between Park City’s private landowners and an enthusiastic, but rogue, group of trail builders. The sport of mountain biking was in its infancy and a few visionaries, bandit trail builders though they were, imagined a whole new world. In their narrative of our town-to-be, outdoorspeople used flowing ribbons of singletrack to wander the enchanted open spaces rather than grind away on steep, loose, gravely, service roads.  

Time warp 30 years to a place where there are now nearly 400 miles of sweet (and legal) singletrack entirely free to the public. Even more extraordinary, and unique in the world of trail access, is the fact that most of Park City’s world class trail system exists on private land – or land that has been preserved as open space. Do I hear a round of applause for Deer Valley/Alterra, Park City Mountain/Vail Resorts, Summit Land Conservancy, Utah Open Lands and select real estate developers? Thank you, thank you very much.

This remarkable community asset didn’t just appear. It happened intentionally, collaboratively and with a great deal of monetary investment by people like you and me. It took a village to make this happen – and to keep it happening decade after decade.

That is why, here at Mountain Trails, we honor every donor. From the $10 donor to the $100,000 donor, you are all part of the team that builds, maintains, grooms and protects Park City’s trails. In nearly nine years with MTF, what I’ve found to be true – and what keeps me smiling – is knowing that a person’s love for trails is not necessarily commensurate with the means to donate. The college kid who flips us ten bucks can be just as enthusiastic – and feels just as vested in the trails – as our major donors. How cool is that?

So, the next time your heels or wheels touch upon a trail, I hope you’ll remember that you are enjoying the fruits of a great, village-wide collaboration – landowners, donors, private business, government and Mountain Trails working together for the greatest trails on earth.

See you out there!  

Lora Smith, Executive Director 

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Amazon Smile Donation Program

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Did you know that you can contribute to Mountain Trails with almost every Amazon purchase? Using Amazon Smile won’t cost you a thing and your Prime benefits are exactly the same. Of course, we encourage our members to shop local, but for those items you purchase online, please consider using the Amazon Smile app or homepage. Amazon Smile will donate .5% of every eligible purchase to your favorite charity and .5% of every trail user’s Amazon Smile purchases would really add up!

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MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew