DC Needs a SKILLS PARK!


Bicycle Skills Park in SF
http://sfurbanriders.org

this morning as I rode the long way into work on the Capital Crescent Trail I looked at the wasteland that is the land between the C&O Canal and the Potomac River around Fetcher's boathouse

I looked at that land and I thought... wow... that would be a good place to put some mountain bike terrain
there are a few parking spaces and it is bike-able for those in the city
and of course... there is Fletchers... which rents bikes and boats and sells sodas

the land between the C&O and the Potomac around Fletcher's is not a very large piece of land
but... there would be enough room for some twists and some turns
there are enough logs and some solid rock obstacles
as well as some man made bridges/boardwalks to traverse some of the lower more swampy pieces of land


with the revision to the law that National Parks that allows land managers to decide if mountain biking is permitted... well... this seems like a great location to develop for mountain biking in Washington DC

who is going to make this happen?
Scott Scudamore?
anyone... anyone?
IMBA? MORE?
anyone... anyone...