When that happens, the trail begins to resemble a long canyon with steep sides, making it uncomfortable for walking and difficult to ride. In addition, the track of a tire can become a path for rainwater to follow, which can cause the trail to become “cupped,” Smith said. Some erosion, Smith said, happens when mud sticks to shoes and tires, moving it from one part of the trail to another. “The reason we don’t want people on muddy trails,” she said, “is because it severely accelerates the erosion of a trail.” (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A stretch fo mud on the Discovery Trail in Summit County on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. She said hiking and biking through - and around - muddy sections can have worse consequences than embarrassing brown stains on one’s britches. And they stress out Lora Smith, the executive director of Mountain Trails Foundation, a trails conservation organization in Park City. Scenes like that are common around Utah in the spring, as residents and tourists begin to trade their skis and snowboards for knobby tires and hiking poles. As a token of their effort, each traveler received brown stains on everything from their calves to their backs to their behinds. By mid-afternoon, though, the snow began to melt under the strain of the 80-degree heat, creating one continuous slippery, gooey slog to the waterfall. But one thing they couldn’t avoid was the mud.Įarly in the day, crusty snowpack formed islands between stretches of ooze along the 3.3-mile trail.
By going early in the season they were mostly avoiding the crowds, which can be unrelenting at the popular Big Cottonwood Canyon attraction during summer weekends. Hundreds of hikers, and a few renegade mountain bikers, traipsed across the path to Donut Falls last weekend.
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