[Closed] Park City Utah

Last chance bump?

I take it you've seen this? http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/park-city-the-mountain-biking-golden-child-of-utah/

That's useful. We drove past there last week and figured it might make a good place to be for a few days.

Don't know, but don't ride their trails in the rain or with any hint of mud on them. They get very upset.

http://parkcitymountainbike.com/riding-wet-trails/

As a Brit I find the American attitude to not riding in mud hard to comprehend.

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https://www.facebook.com/mountaintrailsfoundation/posts/1633389460004975

Would love to ride there though. Know the area well from years of skiing but never been on a bike.

Yeah read the article, was there before just wondering if anyone else had ventured in. Just off to hand the bike to check in at Sydney so there tomorrow

Don't know, but don't ride their trails in the rain or with any hint of mud on them. They get very upset.

WTF - the earth will take care of itself long after a few mountain bikers have gone!

Very selective environmentalism.

I happily rode dry trails all week but I did fly there!

its about the time it takes to fix all the ruts when people plough on through wet trails. It's a common and sensible approach and one that would be useful in a lot of places.

Ruts fix themselves where I ride. Bit of dry weather and regular riding and they're smoothed out.

The only issues I find are with horses and walkers. Bikes cut straight lines and flatten crud. Where feet churn it up though, riders do tend to go around and you get trail creep, but would be better to go through the middle. Even then nature claims things back. Well ridden muddy trails near me are now gone with little evidence they exist as summer growth has made it unrideable and the surface is fine once it dies back.

Some care in places is fine, but the American view is the slightest damp puddle and you should go home! But they obviously have never had to live in a wet country where that approach means no riding at all 😉

Besides, it's trail evolution. Manicured dull trails can be found at trail centres.

Some care in places is fine, but the American view is the slightest damp puddle and you should go home! But they obviously have never had to live in a wet country where that approach means no riding at all

Besides, it's trail evolution. Manicured dull trails can be found at trail centres.

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It gets fairly wet out here in winter when it's all covered in snow. I guess it depends if you're digging the trails or not, plenty of the stuff I rode here last time wouldn't be called manicured and it was ridden in the wet just avoiding the places that are not suited to it. "Trail Evolution" is a strange idea it kind of means you didn't build the right thing first.

I will agree it's a very non british view to avoid something when conditions are bad but most people accept it and ride more suitable trails.

Right then as the threads was light on info some updates.

Trails and rain. After rule one there is rule 2 respect the builder. Most of the good stuff appears to be hand built, make a rut in it when it's wet then it will bake solid and snap later. Don't ride the trails when they are muddy. In the end of the day the trail builders and maintainers are 100x more important than the riders.

Hit the main bike haul lift today and spied the silver mine shed from the stw article. Some good imba blues up there and then some great blacks a little off the main path. Main problem was residing at sea level every pedal above 2500m hurt.

Off to deer valley tomorrow and hopefully park/canyons Sunday. Some vids and pics to follow.

Also no name saloon and high West are worth a trip.