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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, May 26-29, 2018 The Park Record Mountain Madness gives glimpse at upcoming trails B-3 Need CBD oil for pain? East West Health is the only clinic in Utah to carry Charlotte’s Web, the World’s Most Trusted Hemp Extract. Charlotte’s Web™ is a whole plant hemp extract containing the entire range of U.S. Government patented cannabinoids. Health issues CBD oil can help manage: INFLAMMATION MIGRAINES INSOMNIA ANXIETY CHRONIC PAIN MENSTRUAL CRAMPS We also have topical creams for your aches and pains. Come by our office to see all of the Charlotte’s Web products we have to offer. East West Health 1790 Sun Peak Dr., #A-102 Park City, UT 84098 435-640-1353 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Attendees of the Mountain Trails Foundation’s Mountain Madness event peruse t-shirts, bike accessories and more at the DoubleTree Hotel on Wednesday evening,. 20% OFF! New routes slated for Bonanza Flat and Round Valley BEN RAMSEY The Park Record On Wednesday, the Mountain Trails Foundation hosted its annual Mountain Madness meeting in Park City. The event drew interested parties from around the county and state, including Basin Recreation, Deer Valley, the Park City Fire Department, Summit County Lands Conservancy, Utah Open Lands, Park City Municipal, outdoor company Black Diamond and others. The event allowed organizations to debut their plans for summer, largely concerning trails, trail building and conservation. “It’s the old cliché of ‘it takes a village,’” said Charlie Sturgis, executive director of Mountain Trails Foundation of the room full of people at the Hilton DoubleTree in Park City. ‘Well, ultimately it takes a village, and having community support and being able to muster funds through other organizations and grants, that’s what makes this go.” Mountain Trails unveiled several projects, including major changes to the Bloods Lake trail and parking lot at Guardsman Pass, new trails at Round Valley and Park City Mountain Resort, as well as a reroute on Jenny’s Trail. Bonanza Flat Mountain Trails has planned a two-mile hiking trail to Bloods Lake in Bonanza Flat, a plot of land acquired by the city last June, which will lead through stands of conifers and granite rockbands to the lake. The area is in the process of being placed under a conservation easement, but Sturgis said the trail is likely to be approved by the city. After the easement is finalized, Sturgis said Mountain Trails will likely close the Guardsman Pass trailhead and move the parking lot down 500 feet in elevation – about a mile from its current location. The resulting trail will be built “with sustainability in mind,” he said. “It will be a longer walk, but it will be a better walk,” Sturgis added. There will be no biking on the trail – a choice meant to meet the pending easement’s ethos on water, wildlife and wild lands conservation. “Causing an increase in the use doesn’t meet those ideals,” he said. “When we move that parking lot down — it’s a given fact that the longer it takes to get to a place, the further it is, the less people go — so we’re managing the crowd by limiting the ease of access.” In addition, Fournier said the organization would shut down unapproved trails leading down into Bonanza Flat from the current parking lot. “Most of them are not sustainable,” he said. “They just go right down the fall line and are pretty rutted out.” Mountain Trails will re-vegetate the trails for erosion control, and plans to start building the Bloods Lake Hiking Trail in July. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Rick Fournier, field manager with Mountain Trails Foundation, with signs displaying upcoming projects. Round Valley Mountain Trails is building a directional downhill trail about one and a half mile in length, running from the top of Rademan Ridge at the Rambler/Tin Man intersection down to Old Ranch Road Trailhead. “It will provide a really nice loop option when you provide it with Happy Gilmore and Tin Man to get back up,” said Rick Fournier, Mountain Trails Foundation field manager. “We’ve already started on that and will have that done in the next 3 to 4 weeks.” He said the trail will be intermediate in difficulty, starting with flowing switchbacks through groves of mahogany and around flagstone-coated banked turns that drop down into a long, undulating stretch across the drainage’s west face. “It’s going to probably be one of the most fun trails you’ll see in Round Valley,” Fournier said. “We’re really excited about it.” Tommy’s Two Step Bypass Mountain Trails Foundation is also building a downhill directional trail from near the top of Tommy’s Two Step, which will connect the top of PCMR’s Crescent Lift to Mid Mountain trail via a northeastern descent. Fournier said the trail will alleviate hiker and biker traffic coming off of Crescent and provide an easier way down than Two Step or Tommy’s Two Step, the latter of which will become an uphill directional trail. Fournier said it should also help hikers coming up Tommy’s Two Step. “They won’t have bikers bearing down on them,” he said. The connector trail and accompanying change of Tommy’s Two Step to uphill-only is scheduled to be completed by mid-summer. HALF DAY RENTALS DURING MAY 10% OFF when you mention this ad ALL NEW FLOOR BIKES MEMORIAL DAY ONLY! 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