The GAP and C&O are national treasures! Thanks for your write-ups and videos, I used them to convince my riding buddies to make the GAP and C&O our 1 week tour this year. We all enjoyed it. We all anticipated the C&O being much rougher than it was but we only had one morning of rain and somehow missed the downpour that caught others the same day.

All that have enjoyed these trails and are able could help ensure they will be available for future generations by making a contribution to one of the several non-profits involved in maintaining these trails for the benefit of all. I'm making a contribution to the Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy. I sometimes sense that there are some on this forum that take for granted the fact that such amazing resources are available to us with almost no thought as to the tremendous effort and cost incurred by others to make these happen and then continue to maintain them.

The attitude that all of this is "free" and easily found on the internet so I don't need - fill in the blank - is so disheartening. Let them die, they are useless, what do they do for ME? NO NO NO, all of this is there for you because of their efforts (unappreciated, evidently). What they have created will eventually die and go away without our continued support. I'd hate to see these trails become overgrown, eroded trash heaps even though I may not ride them again myself.