'Tiny Woods' brings mountain biking into city
Jason Welker, executive director of Pend Oreille Pedalers, works on the new Tiny Woods bicycle skills course at Travers Park.
(Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER)
Pend Oreille Pedalers volunteers work to install features at the Tiny Woods bike skills course in late October.
Pend Oreille Pedalers volunteers install a feature at the Tiny Woods bike skills course, part of the Travers Park complex.
SANDPOINT — Pretty soon, young bike riders — and the not-so-young — will be jumping, balancing, and testing their skills on the city's new bike skills track at Travers Park.
Named the Tiny Woods Bicycle Skills Course, the renovated skills course is several years in the making. Long a favorite spot of young mountain bikers and youngsters looking for a spot to hang out, the course had been dubbed "Tiny Woods" by students at the nearby Sandpoint Waldorf School.
"We want this to be like a mini-Pine Street Woods right here in town," Welker said. "That's kind of the idea because kids don't always have the ability to get up to the trail system [at Pine Street Woods] that's just two miles from here. But any kid in town can ride their bikes here and have a trail experience right in the middle of town."
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