“La Vallée Ronde”: A cool concept!

Next to my house is a wonderful open-space area named “Round Valley” where we mostly go to for mountain-biking.

Getting there is much work though, and since we're no longer in our twenties, we wish that there would be more "old-folks-friendly"trails that are more in tune with what feel comfortable doing, namely featuring low grade (up to 4-5% incline maximum) and all dirt instead of rocks that are more technically difficult and always intimidating...

Add to this the fact that this would be a wonderful platform for would-be-mountain-bikers to get to know the sport and develop the basic skills that could take them to more technical trails. To perhaps enhance the user-friendly aspect of the trail, it could be made unidirectional?

We wouldn't need to build a brand new trail, but rather add access spurs and “borrow” existing easy sections and add them to the whole, to create “La Vallée Ronde”. Like Chamonix has its Vallée Blanche, Park City would have its own “Vallée Ronde”!

This idea and vision, that has come to me over almost a decade of riding as a “mature sportsman”, would be a terrific project that could maximize the potential of this open-space and would contribute to making Park City even more of mountain-bike mecca than it is today.

Further, it would do that not too many folks think of doing these days, that is aggressively marketing to the greying Americans, the ones that have a significant disposable income at the moment. So hold your breath and stay tuned...