Utah Trails School 2000

Last summer, The Mountain Trails Foundation, Park City, and Bicycle Utah hosted us for a Trails School in Park City. John Knudsen (Utah St. Parks Director) invited us back to teach another class for land managers. Clark Naylor (Wilderness Trails Specialist) hosted the school in Draper City. We met Anne Parr (Chairperson for Planning and Zoning and Advisor on the Board of Trails in Utah). Anne expressed concern for the unique challenge of the sandy soil type in Draper.

Clark took us for a tour of a popular entrance to the 100-mile Bonneville Shoreline Trail. A section of steep fall-line single track climbed about 600 vertical feet from Draper up the flank of Mt. Jordan to the junction with the Bonneville Trail. This section was in pure sand and had eroded to nearly a 3ft deep channel! The best sustainable solution was a contour reroute with several switchbacks.

We flagged a middle section of reroute and two rolling crown switchbacks, keeping the overall grade near 7%. Clark drove us back to Town Hall to watch our slideshow and participate in multi-use trail discussions. Over 30 trail enthusiasts dedicated part of their Memorial Day weekend to the Trails School. Land managers from Draper City, U.S. Forest Service from the Wasatch-Cache Nt. Forest, City of Sandy and others were present. Trail Crew leaders from Deer Valley Resort, Mountain Trails Foundation, Bridgerland Mtn Bike Patrol and Utah St. Youth Correctional Facility also attended. The school introduced TCC guidelines and suggestions that will be considered on trail systems all over northern Utah.

On Saturday we spent twelve hours working on the new reroute. The largest project was a switchback on a 55% side slope where students loaded rock and discarded pieces of sidewalk into horse trailers for the crib wall. Volunteers displayed huge determination and teamwork in tackling this project. The final wall was nearly six feet high! We were very impressed with the people of Draper City and their love of trails.

We returned to Park City for a few days to assess trails and to visit last summers work site on the Masonic\Lost Prospector Trails. It was gratifying to see the trails were in great shape and other trails in the area have improved since our visit. The vision of the Mountain Trails Foundation to link trails throughout the Park City area is one of the most progressive we've seen and is worth a visit for every trail user!

Thanks,
Joey and Kathy, TCC2

Utah Trailbuilding School 2000; students teaming up on a very large switchback.

Greg, Clark and Kathy admiring the crib wall that recycled discarded concrete slabs.

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	Utah Trails School 2000 Last summer, The Mountain Trails Foundation, Park City, and Bicycle Utah hosted us for a Trails School in Park City. John Knudsen (Utah St. Parks Director) invited us back to teach another class for land managers. Clark Naylor (Wilderness Trails Specialist) hosted the school in Draper City. We met Anne Parr (Chairperson for Planning and Zoning and Advisor on the Board of Trails in Utah). Anne expressed concern for the unique challenge of the sandy soil type in Draper. Clark took us for a tour of a popular entrance to the 100-mile Bonneville Shoreline Trail. A section of steep fall-line single track climbed about 600 vertical feet from Draper up the flank of Mt. Jordan to the junction with the Bonneville Trail. This section was in pure sand and had eroded to nearly a 3ft deep channel! The best sustainable solution was a contour reroute with several switchbacks. We flagged a middle section of reroute and two rolling crown switchbacks, keeping the overall grade near 7%. Clark drove us back to Town Hall to watch our slideshow and participate in multi-use trail discussions. Over 30 trail enthusiasts dedicated part of their Memorial Day weekend to the Trails School. Land managers from Draper City, U.S. Forest Service from the Wasatch-Cache Nt. Forest, City of Sandy and others were present. Trail Crew leaders from Deer Valley Resort, Mountain Trails Foundation, Bridgerland Mtn Bike Patrol and Utah St. Youth Correctional Facility also attended. The school introduced TCC guidelines and suggestions that will be considered on trail systems all over northern Utah. On Saturday we spent twelve hours working on the new reroute. The largest project was a switchback on a 55% side slope where students loaded rock and discarded pieces of sidewalk into horse trailers for the crib wall. Volunteers displayed huge determination and teamwork in tackling this project. The final wall was nearly six feet high! We were very impressed with the people of Draper City and their love of trails. We returned to Park City for a few days to assess trails and to visit last summers work site on the Masonic\Lost Prospector Trails. It was gratifying to see the trails were in great shape and other trails in the area have improved since our visit. The vision of the Mountain Trails Foundation to link trails throughout the Park City area is one of the most progressive we've seen and is worth a visit for every trail user! Thanks, Joey and Kathy, TCC2 Utah Trailbuilding School 2000; students teaming up on a very large switchback. Greg, Clark and Kathy admiring the crib wall that recycled discarded concrete slabs.


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