In case of anyone was thinking of 'getting started' in their training for the next Dirty Dozen:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10348/1110680-147.stm
This should probably be a basic question on the licensing test:
It is December, snowing, 18 degrees, the roads are slick. At the top of a steeply sloped hill you should:
a. say "kowabunga" and head down the hill.
b. stop and take a different route.
c. go home and wait until road conditions improve.
d. sell the car and go into an internet work-from-home business.
the answer is some combination of c and d.
I think any internet work-from-home business practically mandates saying "kowabunga" once in a while.
I think the answer also depends on whats at the bottom of the hill and how attached you are to the condition of your car. Option a has it's place - Rialto isn't that place.
Mmm... Option (a) could be fun for non-riding conditions.
@edmonds59: Did you ever participate in "architect's leap" down at CMU?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxCWmA8rbts&feature=related
That's how you do it.
Architects leap - the high interior stairway that miscreants drop objects down to enjoy the resulting carnage? Never heard of it.
bikeygirl - I thought architect's leap was for projects, not people. Well, not people who could answer afterwards. I heard about somebody sending a 48" (or thereabouts) vacuum tube tv down once, it shook the building, very satisfying. Or so I heard.
It was for projects indeed! Although all I ever dared to do was throwing toilet paper down 
It might not count, but I also threw some frozen carved pumpkins left from Halloween on the back of Doherty Hall from a window at back studio... oh memories!
@ejewme: Actually and on a sad note, it was on the news a year or so ago of a CS student who did 'leap' from that staircase -didn't survive.
SOOO.... let's change the subject (sorry I did forgot about that stressed CS kid)
But for non-human carnage: Sliding down 'fun' stuff down Rialto might be fun 
anybody know if Rialto will make it through the 28 improvement project? I seem to vaguely recall a "no" answer on an earlier thread, but no details.
As kids we used to sled down lilac in greenfield, too. That was awesome until they plowed beechwood, then it became more exciting.
@bikeygirl Actually and on a sad note, it was on the news a year or so ago of a CS student who did 'leap' from that staircase -didn't survive.
Was that the place where they had a "Burma Shave" type message sto the effect of
"If the stress is to much
And it's mroe than you anc bear
Don't keep worrying
End it all here"
???
I've been trying to find what that gruesome poem was exactly.
It's quoted here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09241/994124-53.stm
e. get a bike with knobby tires and good brakes.
88MS88 - I'm not interested in using Rialto, just wondering if it will stick around. I have my own personal white whale in Rosedale, which is about half the height (SWAG). I figure once I can get up that without flipping over backwards, I will rule the world.
I think Rialto will stick around. See the documents at
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/penndot/districts/district11.nsf/28Meeting?OpenPage
That's a stock photo BTW. Perhaps cyclists can still get around whatever barriers are erected? Might just be those wooden things
Last year it was jersey barriers that looked pretty much solid all the way across. Not much to hoist a bike over though.
Just a little ways up 28 from Rialto is what once was Heckelman Street. Back before 28 was a highway, when there were homes and businesses along there, there was a long staircase from the top to the bottom of Troy Hill.
It is still visible today. View from the top. View from the bottom.
My hunch is that they would not shut off Rialto anywhere near as severely as Heckelman, though I have no basis in fact, other than what's presented above.
Mick:
8 If you're feeling like a jerk
7 'cause your project just won't work
6 go ahead and take the leap
5 then you'll finally get some sleep
4 Burma-Shave
The interior area of that staircase is now fully walled off.
The interior area of that staircase is now fully walled off.
dag, really? when did they do that? i swear i was in there just a few weeks ago, heading from nsh to the 4th and 5th floors of wean. i don't remember it being walled off.
ok, Burma-Shave was there when _I_ went there, like 10 years ago. I don't remember the poem.
dag, really? when did they do that? i swear i was in there just a few weeks ago, heading from nsh to the 4th and 5th floors of wean. i don't remember it being walled off.
Last year.
Are you sure you didn't take the central staircase if you were coming from NSH? You'd have to walk all the way to the other corner of the building to get to the Leap.
