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Hailey’s Fourth of July Activities Kick Off This Saturday FOR THE WEEKLY SUN
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ailey, Idaho, is known around the region for its spirited Independence Day celebration. This year the town will host five days of events and activities over the holidays. The summer antique season kicks off the weekend with two shows in the City of Hailey—the Fourth of July Hailey Antique Market in Roberta McKercher Gateway Park, located across from the airport on S. 3rd Ave., and Hailey’s Main Street Antique Show, located on the north end of Main Street. Both shows will run through Monday, July 2. The Sawtooth Rangers Days of the Old West Rodeo is the perfect way to celebrate a Western-style Fourth of July. The rodeo will take place Monday, July 2, Tuesday, July 3, and Wednesday, July 4. Pre-rodeo shows begin at 6:30 p.m., with the rodeo starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase at the Hailey Chamber of Commerce, Atkinsons’ Market and, if not sold out, on site at the event. Hailey’s activities start bright and early the morning of Wednesday, July 4, with the traditional Cub Scout Pack #87 Pancake Breakfast at the Upper Big Wood River Grange Hall on S. 3rd Ave. This popular event will take place from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. Beginning at 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. a children’s carnival with inflatable rides and games and water fun will be hosted on Main Street by Spirit ‘n’ Motion Athletic School. Tickets are $10 for all you can ride all day long. Bring your swimsuit! At 10:30 a.m. the Sun Valley Brewery will host live music by “Swagger.” The Hailey Fourth of July Parade starts at noon. This year’s theme is “Let The Good Times Roll!” The Hailey Chamber Fourth of July Committee has been hard at work recruiting new entries to liven up this traditional parade. “Right now we have about sixty entries, and quite a few entries come in the last few weeks before the parade. We are excited,” said Geegee Lowe, Hailey Chamber Visitors Center manager. The committee wants to stress safety to the public. Candy will not be given out during the parade until the very last entries. “The last few years candyseekers along the parade route have created some major safety concerns. The parade won’t be fun for anyone if there is an injury to a child. We are asking the public to stay on the street perimeter and to not approach the entries for candy. Candy will be given out at the very end when volunteers will pass out candy to children that are on the sidewalks.” This year the Hailey Chamber Fourth of July Committee honors Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl as parade grand marshal. Sgt. Bergdahl is a Wood River Valley resident and America’s
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STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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icyclists in Sun Valley are tasting Forbidden Fruit. And they’re loving it. The Forbidden Fruit trail, which opened last summer in the Adams Gulch area, is a new-generation mountain bike trail taking advantage of gravity to thrill even the biggest adrenaline junkies. The single-track trail is crammed with rollercoaster-like dips, drops and lugelike berms that bicyclists can bank off of so they’re hanging almost horizontally over the trail for a split second. And the 1.3-mile one-way trail is closed to other uses, allowing bicyclists to go downhill unimpeded without worrying about meeting a hiker coming up the trail. “It’s really like a bobsled run,” said Sun Valley ski instructor John T. Smith. “The idea is to use your brakes and pedals as little as possible and just go with the flow.” The Bureau of Land Management opened Punchline—a 1.3-mile bikespecific single-track flow trail in the sage-studded Croy Canyon just west of Hailey—last summer, as well. The two trails compliment some 400 miles of single-track that crisscross the mountains and valleys south of Galena. And they represent the wave in a new era of mountain bike trail building. Sun Valley Resort is working with Randy Spangler of Trail Solutions and Chris Leman, a Ketchum cyclist who has worked on trails around the country, to create a world-class mountain bike playground on Bald Mountain. The resort has proposed seven new multi-ability trails and two remodeled trails that would be part of the only dedicated machine-built trail network in the United States, according to Julian Tyo, a member of the Sun Valley trail crew that built the course for the 2011 and 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships on Baldy. String a few of the proposed trails together and you’ll have a 9.6-mile downhill flow trail, which would be the longest in the United States, said Tyo, who hopes trail building can begin next summer.
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“It’s really like a bobsled run. The idea is to use your brakes and pedals as little as possible and just go with the flow.” –John t. Smith, sun valley ski instructor
Twenty-four miles to the north, officials with the Sawtooth National Recreation Area are doing environmental assessment of a proposed summer trail network for mountain bikers and hikers that would take users out of wetlands and into prime view corridors. The trails would include trails that Grandma and the grandkids would enjoy hiking, as well as some that would lead users past the old Galena smelter and other sites of historical interest. “The area around Galena Lodge offers some remarkable views but the old mining roads don’t,” said Eric Rector, who hopes his Blaine County Recreation District can begin work on the trails next spring. “Some would follow parts of winter trails; some would be reroutes of
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(Top to Bottom) • Vince Sydlosky rides up the Forbidden Fruit trail, which features numerous rollers, both on the uphill and downhill course. • This temporary sign cautioning first-timers on the Forbidden Fruit trail to proceed with caution. •Deanna Sydlosky banks a little cautiously her first time. Those who ride the trail frequently say it’s actually easier to ride up on the berms, rather than down on the trail bottom.
Summer Spectacular Concert June 30 • Sun Valley Pavilion
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