Dear editor:
I had to see it myself. Upon arrival at the highest cyclist entrance to the Preserve, I saw the Board. Last month’s article in the Park Record about the Preserve developer changing his mind about closing the cyclist entrances on 5/27 due to safety and privacy reasons, was too good to be true. I was relieved and ecstatic, but also encouraged that he was able to work together with our cyclist community. He saw our passion, our connection to the Preserve. He also learned of our willingness to work with the homeowners to have better road etiquette, whatever was needed to keep the passage open.
I was saddened today upon seeing the nailed board as my two-to-four-times-a-week rides on the Preserve roads have added to my quality of life in Park City, tremendously. I have even bragged to a few non-Summit County friends, in the past month, how the grassroots effort by Mountain Trails Foundation revealed promise. Promise for our community, potentially symbolic of our Congress and how they, too, could work together.
But I will still be hopeful. Hopeful that Preserve owners will work with us, leisure and competitive cyclists, who cherish those precious hills. We could put reminder signs on the roads to ride single track, perhaps the county would even add a bike lane on Bitner? We would continue to watch over your homes. We would patiently wait for the height of construction to pass so safety won’t be a prominent concern and we would take personal liability should an accident occur. We would like to work with you, hopefully you feel the same. We would sure love that.
Mary Closser
Snyderville
Cycling fest was a success
Dear Editor,
I want to sincerely thank Parkites and visitors who turned out in large numbers to make KPCW’s second annual Park City Cycling Festival a huge success this past weekend. After a one-day "test" event in 2012, we went big and hosted a three day celebration of all aspects of cycling at Park City Mountain Resort this time.
Between guided trail and road rides, skills clinics, a midway lined with cycling related vendors, manufacturers with demo bikes, non-stop rock bands, and food and drink, visitors had a great time and said they’d be back.
After a successful weekend, I can promise KPCW will be back to present the Park City Cycling Festival again next summer. And while there are too many individuals and sponsors to thank here for their enthusiastic support, I do want to single out one.
Our Development and Special Events Director Cindy water is the Queen of the Festival, its organizer and tireless cheerleader through many long days and nights of preparation. Cindy, the hard working staff of KPCW and dozens of great volunteers pulled this off with the hope of creating one of the great weekend events that make summer in Park City like no place else.
Larry Warren
General Manager, KPCW