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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports SHEEP HAVE ARRIVED FOR HERDING COMP, B-2 www.parkrecord.com B-1 TENNIS TEAM FACES TOUGH STATE, B-3 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, SEPTEMBER 1-4, 2018 Peak bagger, philanthropist, 7th-grader NEW TRAILS IN OAKLEY South Summit Trails Foundation announced the completion of what it’s calling the first phase in the creation of the Oakley Trail Park, with a grand opening ceremony at a date to be announced. The new trail area has three miles of trails and is open for all types of non-motorized use, a press release stated. Upper sections of the trail feature views of the surrounding valley, and the newly-opened area includes three mountain bike flow tracks: Barrel Racer, Rodeo and Buckaroo. The second phase of the Oakley Trail Park will include a family riding area with a skills line, jump line, and pump track. The organization has asked riders stay off the new trails while they are wet, as they are still fragile after being so recently constructed. “Some of the corners are still soft and need packing down, so please proceed with caution on the steep corners,” the press release read. For more information go to http://www. southsummittrails.org/. MOBILE RECREATION TRAILER Park City Recreation is offering free activities through its mobile recreation trailer. The trailer brings equipment for games and activities like kickball, hula hooping and street hockey, and will be setting up at various spots around town in August. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5401 for more information on dates and locations where the mobile recreation trailer can be found. PRE-COMP SWIM TEAM The PC MARC is hosting a fall precomp swim team. This swim team offers smaller group sizes, more individualized instruction, and expert coaching. Classes are held Monday through Thursday from Sept. 4-27. Visitparkcityrecreation.org or call 435615-5401 for more information. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 COURTESY OF DANIEL BOLUND Left: Decatur and Daniel Bolund hiking above the clouds on their way to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The Bolunds decided to climb Africa’s highest peak after a conversation last summer about their mutual love for hiking. Right: Decatur Bolund sits in front of a flag for his nonprofit Summit 4 A Cause, through which he raised more than $7,000 for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an animal sanctuary in Nairobi, Kenya. Local 11-year old hikes Mt. Kilimanjaro, donates to wildlife trust ing a day outdoors hiking around Park City. Daniel said Bolund has always been cheritable, so the plan quickly developed to also do the climb for a cause. To ensure success, they hired Noel Hanna an experienced guide who climbs in the Himalayas, and local guide Babuu Nanyaro, who Bolund said became “his cornerstone” during the hike. After spending nine months hiking and running around the Park City area in preparation for bagging the 19,341-foot peak, Bolund and Daniel left for Tanzania on Aug. 4. The four-person team then ascended the mountain over six days via the Marangu route, which leaves from an eponymous village in Tanzania and climbs out of the grassland and montane forests from an elevation of 4,658 feet above sea level. On the first day, the team hiked from Marangu out of the forest to the first of three huts on the route, called the Mandara hut, which sits at an elevation of BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Decatur Bolund wasn’t sure who his homeroom teacher would be at Ecker Hill Middle School as he entered seventh grade on Aug. 22. “I think it’s Mr. Marshall,” he said. But, at 11 years old, he did know what sunrise on Mt. Kilimanjaro looks like. Bolund and his father, Daniel, climbed the highest peak in Africa and raised more than $7,000 for a local wildlife sanctuary in the process through Decatur’s newly-formed nonprofit, Summit 4 A Cause. Bolund and Daniel decided to hike Kilimanjaro last summer, while spend- 8,907 feet. The next day, they climbed into the alpine desert, reaching the Harambo hut after a seven-mile leg, and another 3,000 feet of elevation. The team spent the next day acclimatizing by hiking up the mountain another four miles, and returning to sleep at the Harambo hut, which sits at an altitude above 12,100 feet. There, Bolund said the temperature dropped precipitously, and his view of the surroundings expanded. “The sun would come up and the clouds would be just below you,” he said. By then, he had surpassed the height of his biggest bag so far – Mt. Timpanogos, which tops out at 11,572 feet – which he and Daniel had climbed as a training day two weeks before departing for Africa. On the fourth day, the party hiked another six miles to reach the highest hut on the mountain, the Kibu hut, at 15,518 feet, where the team shed some of their equipment and rested through the afternoon and evening. They rose again at midnight for their summit hike. Daniel said the temperatures were frigid, hovering around 0 degrees Fahrenheit with gusts of wind up to 40 miles per hour. Nanyaro and Hanna helped Bolund, who weighs 85 pounds, make his way against the stiff gusts, and eventually the four of them reached the summit. “It was a little hard to get started,” Bolund said. “I was really tired, but we started going and we made it to the top, and we were really happy about it.” The team stayed just long enough to get a few photos, then left the frozen summit for their two-day descent. Summit 4 A Cause raised an estimated $7,500 with more money expected to come in, Daniel said, which he said will be donated to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust near Nairobi, Kenya. 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