Andy - very nice. Looks like a beautiful night.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:53 AM, ascpgh <asc....@gmail.com> wrote:
> A very pleasant group I've ridden with every Tuesday, April through
> September has now gone dormant for the dark seasons. Several of us have
> decided to keep up the riding under the cover of darkness. It's become a
> celebration of generator hubs and LED headlights. We gather at Tazza d'oro
> coffee and head out for the highs and lows, enjoying the pretty vast
> infrastructure available off the roadways where possible.
>
> We wound our way through the Carnegie Mellon University campus, through a
> dark Panther Hollow, along the jail trail and the Hot Metal Bridge (named
> for the one-time cargo of the insulated railcars taking molten iron or
> steel across the river to secondary mills) to the South Side. We picked a
> reasonably desolate path up into the heights of Mount Washington and along
> the "non-view" neighborhoods and then crossed the summit line to Grandview
> Avenue to enjoy the proceeds of our work.
>
> Mount Washington had coal seams that were mined horizontally with some
> opening on the face overlooking town. Chutes delivered it to the riverbank
> for a simple barge trip to the fires of the steel industry up and down the
> rivers. "Hell with the lid off" James Parton wrote in 1868. Certainly
> different now. This place is now about education, medicine, and technology.
> Other recent insights include the growing value of the waterfront *
> mileage,* which had been avoided as the uncomfortable place where
> industry was. Redevelopment has been managed to value those massive tracts
> and many bikeway miles have been established along them. The Great
> Allegheny Passage starts at the fountain in Point State Park and runs
> upstream along the city side of Monongahela ("*Mon*") River, crossing the
> Hot Metal Bridge and continuing to the town of McKeesport where it picks up
> the Youghiogheny ("*Yock*") River along which it runs into the Allegheny
> Mountains toward Cumberland, MD then Washington DC via the C&O Canal
> towpath; 325 miles. Too much for tonight.
>
> We descended Sycamore Street (part of the old Thrift Drug Classic and The
> Dirty Dozen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dozen_(bicycle_competition)>)
> to Station Square, crossed the very decorative Smithfield Street Bridge to
> downtown and the jail trail, and back to the start where several of us
> retired around the corner for a pleasant post ride refreshment and
> conversation.
>
> Nice to keep the positive vibe of the ride group going into dark part of
> the year. Sure is a glowing plug for lighting, I know it takes little
> provocation to spill praise for mine.
>
> Oh yeah, pictures prove... Pittsburgh Night Ride
> 10/15<https://plus.google.com/photos/109160474815391208206/albums/5935300447174770417?authkey=CIjDnr3508GETA>
>
> Andy Cheatham
> Pittsburgh
>
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