Trail Report
TGIF Park City! Your collision of winter, spring and summer, all in one trail report, on this toasty Friday, April 11th...
It's high noon and we're already at 70-degrees with an expected high of 74. Wow! Hot BBQ!
Let's kick things off with the dirt...
The Round Valley trails are 90% good to go. Everything except Rambler/High Side and Rusty Shovel on the Hwy 40 side and north-facing aspects. Big Easy on the 40 side is g2g, however. We still have a closure on Pulp Friction as well.
Lost Prospector and Skid Row are still holding substantial snow/mud and are best to avoid for at least another week or two.
Over at Clark Ranch, Lower Sparky is good to go but Family Truckster, Cousin Eddie and Upper Sparky are still holding snow/mud and remain closed.
Moving East to Skyridge, just about everything is good to go but you will encounter some lingering snow patches/mud on some of the north-facing recesses on Big Dipper, Bunny Loop and Skyridge Peak. Not terrible though and should improve over the next few days.
Onto the snow...
This weekend marks the final curtain for '24-'25 winter trails season. I just returned from beautiful Bonanza Flat after coercing 'Roy through an early morning sesh and left some finely manicured corn for those still interested in sliding and gliding. We'll continue to groom through Sunday.
Transit to Trails will be making it's final appearance this Saturday and Sunday, so gather up your Nordic buddies and the puppers for one last high elevation hurrah.
This was no doubt a challenging winter on the grooming front, but we still had several good weeks in Round Valley and we're SO fortunate to have the high alpine gem that is Bonanza. A big shout out to our partners in snow, City Government of Park City, Utah and Utah Open Lands and especially to our grooming crew of Zach, Emil, Alec and Matt. They did a lot with a little this year and put in many early mornings to provide the community with some stellar winter recreation. Nice job fellas!
It's that magical time of year when you can play on the snow, dirt or both... get out there and get after it! #trailreport
Rick & Team MTF
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Thank you for a great season! Question... do you know where I can find more info about parking passes for Bonanza Flats this summer - what the plan is and if 84060 peeps get a pass and where? Thank you MTF
Wonderful Tuesday Park City,
Round Valley dried out quickly yesterday afternoon and a lot of trails are now good to go. We did keep Big Easy and Backslide north of Sunny Slopes closed due to some big patches of mud on top of the hill. The Highway 40 side trails are still holding patches of snow and remain closed for the time being.
Over at Skyridge, Two Rocks and Milky Way are good to go. The trails with north-facing aspects are still holding moisture.
Lower Sparky is also now open, however the upper half is still closed due to some snow that is hanging on in the oaks on some of the flow trail sections.
We should start to see more trails begin to dry out over the next few days so stay tuned... #trailreport
Matt & Emma
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Any word on conditions today? Has it dried out more in the last two days?
RV magic dirt doing its thing. Ski to dirt in 2 weeks or less. It was awesome out there today
Helpful report thanks
Good Monday Afternoon Park City,
Round Valley wasn’t nearly as dried out as we expected it to be, so we did go through and close most of the single track trails.
Though some may not appear muddy at the closure gates. They do seem to be holding on to mud where they can.
Hopefully with the warmth today and tomorrow it should dry up enough that we can get stuff open later in the week. #trailreport
From your MTF Crew,
Matt & Alec
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MTF - your drainage work on RV Express last fall has the trail looking great! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you!
Like clock work, it's Sunday again!
April 6th update:
Bonanza Nordic groomed out nicely this morning, and with the sun out in full force, it should be another beautiful spring day up there! Yes, Transit to Trails is running today, and a reminder that next weekend is the final weekend of this service.
Round Valley was still struggling to dry out yesterday, I suggest letting the sun do it's thing today and hopefully we'll be seeing less mud after 10am either tomorrow or Tuesday. With most days this week looking very warm (50-60 degrees?) and sunny we hope to see many miles of dry trail in the near future and it's looking great going into next weekend, but today isn't quite one of those days, so please be mindful of your impact out there today.
Whatever you get into today, I hope you have a great day!
-Alec
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Good morning Park City!
April 5th trails update;
The sun is shining and it's time to get out and soak in those warm, spring-time rays! Transit 2 Trails shuttle will be running today, with Cap'n Zach at the helm of the grooming cat in Bonanza. Grooming operations will be wrapped up by early morning. There was a hard freeze overnight so track conditions will be fast. Zoom zoom! Current conditions are clear and cold with a temperature of 15F and calm winds.
For the lowlanders, Round Valley also received a hard freeze last night. However, tread conditions have been deteriorating quickly so if you want to get out, get out EARLY, Typically, we've been needing to re-close trails around 11am.
It's a Saturday, so why not start it off the right way? An early hike, bike, run, ski, or all of the above. It's that time of the year. Enjoy!
- Emil, Alec & Zach
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So good. Thank you!
Thank you Mountain Trails Foundation! B Flats was awesome this morning
Enjoyed it up there so much! Thank you!🙏🏻
