A huge fundraising effort is happening in Park City on November 8th, called Live PC/Give PC. The event is a 24 hour marathon of giving where you can support the non-profit organizations that make Park City awesome. Every donation you make gives your favorite organization the chance to win matching grants and prizes, and one important outdoor-recreation organization, Mountain Trails Foundation, needs our help.
The Mountain Trails Foundation is raising money for “Human-Powered Recreation.” The campaign launches on the Park City Foundation website as early as 12:01 a.m. the day of the event. Then, from 6 p.m. to midnight, there is a community celebration downtown, and Mountain Trails will be at High West Distillery & Saloon, collecting donations.
The Mountain Trails Foundation says they are seeking a minimum pledge of $10, but the primary goal is participation, or the highest number of unique donors. Last year, the foundation attracted 482 donors; this year, it’s shooting for 1,000.
Every donation, no matter the amount, helps as funds raised go directly toward supporting, protecting and expanding trails for non-motorized hiking, cycling and Nordic trails in the Park City area. According to Mountain Trails, this includes grooming 50 kilometers of trail for Nordic skiing, securing a $25,000 grant for the new 21.5-mile “Wasatch Over Wasatch” loop trail, and ongoing advocacy work to keep the trails human powered.
The foundation’s Park City/Snyderville Basin trail system is the only network to have been named a “Gold Ride Center” by the International Mountain Bicycling Association, and in offering unparalleled and unpolluted access to Utah’s world-famous Wasatch Mountains, it has become one of Park City’s main attractions — and one of the only ones open year-round.
So on November 8th, starting at 12:01 a.m., fire up that computer, go to the Park City Foundation website at www.theparkcityfoundation.org and make you donation. Then get your butt up to Park City at the High West Distillery from 6 p.m. to midnight to party and help raise even more funds.
For more information, head over to the Park City Foundation website to see all of the non-profits you can donate to, and help make Park City an even better place to recreate outdoors!