The Sole Power Plus Summer Green Commuting Challenge kicks off on Memorial Day, Monday May 25 and runs through Oct. 12. Participants will notice updates to the program, with the rebranded mobile app available to track miles year-round. Search for “Sole Power” in the Apple App and Google Play app stores and download it for free. The app will automatically track and log trips, as well as show a participant’s teams and their position on the leaderboard. Participants also can choose to manually enter trips. The mobile app also will track carpooling and bus trips. View these trips in the “Plus Powered” mode on the top of the app.   

The rules for Sole Power Plus are simple. Participants may count any trip, as long as they have a destination and the ride, walk, skate or run is not purely recreational. The goal is to use “sole” power or “plus” power, such as bus and carpooling, and support active green transportation instead of single occupancy vehicle trips. If participants would have otherwise driven alone, the trip counts. 
  
Sole Power, now Sole Power Plus, is celebrating its 16th year with more than 3,000 total participants from Eagle County logging nearly 600,000 miles over 110,000 trips since the start of the program.  Active, human powered commuting, carpooling, and bus riding is a healthy option not only for people, but also for the environment. Participants get outside, get fit, reduce their carbon footprint, save money and have fun. In 2025 there were 392 Sole Power Plus participants logging nearly 44,000 miles. Since the start of Sole Power, participants have reduced more than 500,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. This is the equivalent of removing 56 gasoline-powered cars from the road for one year. The program is a great opportunity for businesses and individuals to improve personal wellness and do their part for climate action. This year, with the expanded and rebranded mobile app, the goal is to track 60,000 human powered miles this summer. 

Every participant is eligible for a free Sole Power Plus T-shirt, printed by Kind Design, a long-time sponsor of the challenge. Other community sponsors have donated prizes such as hotel stays, gift cards for restaurants and bars, bike tunes, hats, custom messenger bags, tote bags and commuting gear. Prizes will be given each week throughout the challenge with anyone who has logged a trip that week being eligible for a prize. 

Any Sole Power Plus participant who logs 40 or more human powered trips throughout the challenge will be eligible to win in the annual e-bike giveaway. Carpool and bus rider trips will still count towards weekly prizes, but human powered trips are needed to be entered for the e-bike giveaway. Sole Power Plus hosts monthly happy hours with free or discounted beverages and the summer will be capped off with an end-of-season party.  

For more information, visit www.solepower.org or contact Hunter Koch, Environmental Sustainability Program Administrator for Town of Vail at hkoch@vail.gov.  

Follow Sole Power on social media at Eagle County Sole Power or on Instagram @ECSolePower and subscribe to the Sole Power Plus e-newsletter at www.vail.gov/vailmail.