Mountain Rides

National Bike to Work Week is this week, and Mountain Rides will be celebrating with events throughout the week.

Bike to Work Day: Friday May 21st
If you’re not biking already, make sure you stop by your local bike shop for a tune-up in preparation of Bike to Work Day. Mountain Rides and our sponsors will be stationed along the Wood River Trail with food and freebies. Prizes for the companies with the best effort and participation. Check out our Facebook and Blog for more info.

10th Annual Smart Moves Kickoff: Friday May 21st
Join our 10th Annual SMART MOVES challenge to win great prizes, including a 2011 Sun Valley Season Pass! All you have to do is get out of your car— walk, bike, carpool, bus, skateboard, rollerblade, unicycle…you get the idea. Log your trips on our TripTracker or go green (and become eligible for exlusive prizes) by logging trips on Rideshareonline. The challenge runs May 21st through August 20th…so stop being such an S.O.V.* and become part of the solution! We’ll be announcing exclusive online prizes on Facebook and Twitter, so follow us for more chances to win.
*Single Occupancy Vehicle

5th Annual Community Bike Swap: Friday May 21st through Sunday May 23rd
Have a bike to sell? Need a new ride? Stop by the Fifth Annual Community Bike Swap at Sturto’s in Hailey for some sweet wheels and deals.

Seller Drop Off: Friday May 21st 1PM to 7PM
Sale: Saturday May 22nd 9AM to 4PM
Seller Pick Up: Sunday May 23rd 9AM to 2PM

Sellers receive 80% of the sale price, with remaining proceeds going to the Wood River Bike Coalition and Friends of Mountain Rides.

During the month of April, Mountain Rides will be giving away lots of awesomeness (including an Elephants Perch gift card). Winning is simple: sign onto Rideshareonline.com, log 5 bike, bus, or carpool trips, and you’ll be entered into one of our drawings. So go ahead, do some good for the planet and win some goods for yourself.

Whether you want to find a ride the airport, a weekly carpool to school, or someone to brave the headwind with you on your ride to work, Rideshareonline has you covered. Just logon, enter your trip, and Rideshare will do the rest.  Signing up is quick and easy (check out our Rideshare page for more information) and gives you all sorts of perks. Not only will it help you calculate commute costs and carbon savings, but you’ll be eligible for sweet giveaways from Mountain Rides and our partners.

If you don’t want to save money and our snowpack, don’t sign up. But if you do, click here to get started.

The Idaho Department of Tranportation will hold an open house on Tuesday, March 30th from 4-7PM at Ketchum City Hall to identify and prioritize a list of ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) improvements along state roadways. There will be a public comment period from 4-6PM, with a presentation from ITD at 6PM. We urge you to attend— play a role in improving pedestrian access in your community!

Ketchum/Sun Valley Town Bus service will go to a late season schedule on April 1st. Here’s how it will affect you:

Blue Route: Blue #1 and #2 will continue to run. Blue #2 will have altered hours of service, with the last bus at 4:50PM at Baldy View Circle.

Red Route: Red #1 will continue to run. Red #2 will end on March 31st.

Green Route: Green Route will operate with modified hours, with service from 7AM to 10:30AM and from 2:00PM to 5:40PM.

Silver Route: Silver Route will continue with Silver #1 and Silver #3. March 31st will be the last day of service for Silver #2 and Silver #4.

Gold Route: The last day of service on the Gold Route will be March 31st.

Bronze Route: The last day of service on the Bronze Route will be March 31st.

Please check out our timetables for more details.

We’ve been busy planning some exciting new projects in the Mountain Rides office, and we’re stoked to say that we’re ready to reveal one of our babies to you: a new FREE route around Hailey. We think we’ve done a pretty good job planning service that will help you get around town to places like the Community Campus, Atkinsons, Albertsons, and Airport Blvd, but we want to hear it from you before we make anything official. So on Tuesday, March 9th, we’ll be all over Hailey in one of our big green buses to show you what we’ve got and hear what you think. We’ll walk you through the route, help you map out how to get from your home to work, school, or wherever, and talk with you about what you like (and what you don’t). Find us is one of the following locations:

Atkinsons: 11 AM-1 PM

Albertsons: 1:30 – 3 PM

Community Campus: 3:30 – 5 PM

After our bus tour, we’ll switch into a slightly more formal gear with a public presentation at the Community Campus in Room 903 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. It will be a great opportunity to have a bigger conversation with our staff, city planners, and the community about how free Hailey service can best benefit the town, its businesses, and its residents. Hope to see you there.

While we have your attention, we’d also like to let you know about some of our latest Safe Routes efforts, including upcoming events and infrastructure projects. So while you’re hopping on-board our feedback fleet, don’t forget to take a second to check out what Safe Route has in store.