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Show SPORTS The www.parkrecord.com Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports SUMMER SOLSTICE HIKE Basin Recreation is hosting a free community hike to welcome the summer on Friday, June 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Hikers will meet at the Lost Prospector trailhead for a hike that is considered easy to moderate in difficulty. Dogs are welcome with a leash or e-collar. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. SKATE SERIES & SKATE JAM Park City Recreation is hosting a summer skate jam on Friday, June 21. The event will include music, skating and friendly competition. All ages and skill levels are welcome. The 2019 skate competition series also begins June 29. Registration for all seven divisions is available online at parkcityrecreation.org or by calling 435-615-5401. START OF SUMMER COLOR RUN On June 22, Basin Recreation is planning to host a 5K fun run from 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. at Willow Creek Park featuring powdered paint stations. A one-mile run, a 100-yard dash (ages 4 and younger), and a diaper dash will follow. Cost is $15 per person or $45 per family. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. MOUNTAIN BIKE CAMPS Summit Bike Club is hosting two camps for all developing riders to experience a wide range of terrain, educational talks and two races. The camps are hosted at houses at roughly 9,000 feet near Park City trails. The first camp will run from June 25-30, the second from Aug. 6-11. For more information go to summitbikeclub.org and select the “Camps” tab. For more sports briefs, please visit www.parkrecord.com/sports AERIALS MAINSTAY WILL PARKITE RIDES OUT COACH, FOR NOW, B-2 SUMMER ON BIKE, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JUNE 19-21, 2019 Community says ‘Happy trails’ to a pioneer Cyndi Schwandt, a fixture in local biking, honored with group ride BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Park City’s mountain biking community honored the life of one of its own on Monday as about 50 riders, many clad in purple, took to the Rail Trail in a memorial ride starting and ending at the Mountain Trails Foundation headquarters. Schwandt, 68, died on June 11 while mountain biking on a trail near Solamere, leaving a hole in the cultural fabric of Park City’s biking scene, where she was known for her welcoming demeanor to new riders, for her longtime involvement in the sport, and for her contribution to shaping the city’s internationally recognized trail system. She was particularly dear to Team Sugar, a weekly women’s riding group based of the White Pine Touring bike shop. According to Sugar ride leader Kari Murray, Schwandt would usually ride with an intermediate-level endurance group, where her knowledge of the trails shined. “People knew if they were going on Cyndi’s ride, there was going to be a fair amount of climbing and it would be on some random, secret trail,” Murray said. Tom Noaker, president of the South Summit Trails Foundation, said he first met Schwandt when she came to the mountain biking shop he owned in the mid-80s, called New Park Cyclery. Back then, she was part of a small group of cycling enthusiasts who were cutting out the future of sport from the mountainside, using the trails of the silver miners who carved their futures before them. Schwandt had come to Park City TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Attendees of the memorial ride, hike and social for Cyndi Schwandt roll up Bonanza Drive on their way to the Rail Trail on Monday. Many in the group wore purple, which was Schwandt’s favorite color. by way of Aspen, Colorado. She was born in New Jersey and raised in Seneca Falls, New York, where she and her family grew up sailing on Cayuga Lake. She attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she got a degree in mathematics, then, after a brief stint back home, decided to go West. Her first stop was Fort Collins, Colorado, where she earned a masters degree in horticulture, then on to Aspen, and, finally, Park City. In Park City she befriended a group of avid cyclists, including the late Rich Perrier, and started digging out the city’s early trail network. “They did it all, and it was all bootleg,” Noaker said. “Illegal as hell, but there was no enforcement back then.” The mountain bikers would find Please see Mountain, B-4 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Sara Schwandt, Cyndi Schwandt’s niece, places photos of her aunt on a table at the Mountain Trails Foundation offices during the memorial ride, hike and social for Cyndi Schwandt on Monday afternoon. Sara and her father, Tom Schwandt, flew in from Boulder, Colorado, to be part of the memorial event. 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