1 of 8 | A man dressed as Captain America stops a snowball with his shield during a snowball fight organized on social media, at Meridan Hill Park in Washington, D.C., February 17, 2015. A President's Day snow storm dropped 3-6 inches of snow on the D.C. region. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
The participants included college students, teachers, federal staffers and one man dressed as Captain America.
The event celebrated a snow day for area schools and non-emergency workers with the federal Office of Personnel Management.
The snowball fight had originally been planned for Dupont Circle, where a similar massive snow-brawl took place in 2010, but was moved to Meridian Hill Park after the National Park Service plowed the sidewalks at Dupont.
