Fort Dupont/Anacostia system

[Fitz]

These trails have been in good shape until this past weekend's wind storm screwed everything up. Before, there were maybe 3 downed trees requiring walkovers; now it's more like 8 or 10. Very annoying because I love these trails, and I have little faith that this will be a priority for the park system, since hardly anyone used them. Grrr...

[werace424]

These trails have been in good shape until this past weekend's wind storm screwed everything up. Before, there were maybe 3 downed trees requiring walkovers; now it's more like 8 or 10. Very annoying because I love these trails, and I have little faith that this will be a priority for the park system, since hardly anyone used them. Grrr...


I work in SE on the Anacostia Annex. (next to Bolling AFB). Are these downed trees ridable? (ie. if ramped) :) and if not can we drag them out of the way with three or four folks? :confused: How far is this park from the Annex?

[Fitz]

I don't know the area well enough to say where the downed trees are, except that they're more or less everywhere now, every five or ten minutes.

I've never built a ramp, but most of them would be rideable if ramped. There's one monster that will take some serious machinery, but the rest would just require a chainsaw and about fifteen minutes. They're mostly old trees that were ready to fall, with a few exceptions.

I hear the IMBA (if I have the name right) is talking about working with the Park Service on the Dupont trail system. I'd love to pitch in because these trails are a vastly underused resource, and the more people who ride there the safer they become. As it is, it's a little eerie to ride through Anacostia by myself without seeing another soul. I worry about the people I might meet, since we ran across two burned-out vehicles near a baseball field--again, not really sure where that was, but it doesn't say much about the safety of these woods.