Getting air on Denny (Image: Tim Durkan)
Forget the garbage — what do you think it looks like in New Orleans on a Mardi Gras morning! Capitol Hill sledding is a celebration of more than unusual weather. The snowy, icy streets of the neighborhood remind us to step off the sidewalk and take the space. It’s play. It’s the celebration of freedom. It’s jackassery and shenanigans. But as long as nobody gets hurt (too badly), we should count ourselves lucky. Here are some of the best images and video we’ve seen from the fun on Denny Way and other Capitol Hill arenas of winter sport. As usual, thanks to everybody for sharing your pictures and video. If we posted something you’d prefer we didn’t, let us know. If you only have time to experience one video, by the way, watch Drifting, Snow Day Seattle, below. It is what it’s all about.
See also:
- Sledders win standoff with SUV on Denny Way
- CHS Pics from the crowd | MLK weekend #seasnow on Capitol Hill
CHS #seasnow Coverage: Friday |Thursday | Wednesday | Tuesday | Monday | Sunday
(Image: Fecki via Flickr)
(Image: Fecki via Flickr)
(Image: KatyKannan2012 via Flickr)
Another Ordinary Midnight on Capitol Hill album from Walter Cardona via Facebook
Good enough to share again
Fashion is a sport, no?
(Image: Alex Jon-Earl via Facebook)
(Image: The Feed Bag Pet Provisions via Facebook)
Avery, age 9 — sent in by John: “I had to send along this photo from yesterday morning. The location is e highland between 17th and 18th aves e. Some kids had just finished building a jump when one of mine hit it on a sled with runners. What a day!” (Image: John Colwell)
Bonus item: Here’s another Denny video from local filmmaker Alex Berry:
http://vimeo.com/35397508
denny hill until midnight 1/19/2012 (thursday)
cops cut the music around midnight
Has a history of Mardi Gras. Everyone there knows what they are buying into. But more importantly, it isn’t full of a bunch of hipster douchebags who demand hate free veggie tacos on compostable plates be served in butchers — yet can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves. How tough is it to pack out an empty 12 of PBR? Oh, and to the people who left the mattress in the street, fuck you.
You didn’t know you were buying into a city that shuts down when snow hits and some people decide to have fun with it? Is that your beef?
Or is it your jumble of words talking about hate free, hipsters, veggie tacos and the like? It’s OK chimchim!
The snow will melt.
The people will be able to get back to work.
The mess will be cleaned up.
But not before some angry folk gets their panties in a twist!
Maybe next year huh chimchim?
I love this neighborhood and I love this blog! Yay snopocalypse!
Thanks to reader Christine. She couldn’t really explain it either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh-DlYY0AcQ
@mcmullet
no, i didn’t know that i was buying into a city that shuts down when snow hits. is that in a brochure somewhere? i must have missed that. what i didn’t miss is the nannying that goes on about recycling every day of the year except when it’s time to sled down a frozen steet. then littering is fine to do?
@jseattle
“Capitol Hill sledding is a celebration of more than unusual weather.”
so that’s an excuse to trash our neighborhood? really? if that’s the case, tell me again your address? because i’m in a celebrating mood and have a trash can full of crap i can dump on your lawn.
Yes, I’m a grouch: after being kept awake until 2am by drunk yelling idiots sledding under my bedroom window, and seeing an ambulance called for an injured sledder last night, I’m not interested in celebrating the “snow sports.”
Where I grew up “doing donuts” = “whipping shitties”. I have no idea why.
It’s only fun until someone loses control and runs into the conservatory. Open parking lots (schools, malls, etc.) provide a safer open course, fyi.
“The mess will be cleaned up.”
When and by who? Are you really in favor of littering and putting a fucking mattress in the middle of a main drag?
Amen.
Love how this article starts with “Forget the garbage”!
Easy to say when its not outside your front door.
True fun would have been waking up to see that the hipsters took their
trash home with them. But that’s never gone happen.
My sympathies to Acme Barber shop who had to host the garbage and loud crowds right out front.
I was there! I met Christine, she was super nice and her dog was just as cute as he is in the video. We both got a kick out of watching the guy in the car go round and round and round. He was being careful to watch out for people, and he left once it got to be too dark for their to be good visibility. On the other hand, to be fair to Dod, he did come close to running into a car that was parked on the road that leads up to the conservatory. And you’re right – it would have been way less fun if he had hit something.
I agree that a snowstorm is no excuse for littering our streets. The City will eventually pick up large items like the mattress, if someone reports the exact location. But, all the other litter has to be cleaned up by someone other than those who did it. Nice ir-responsibility, hipsters!
Another similar phenomenon during snows is that dog-walkers no longer “scoop the poop.” They seem to think that the snow will magically take care of it. But, after the thaw, there is poop everywhere on Capitol Hill streets.
This has been another episode of “Who’s Offended Today?”–brought to you by Citizens for Warmth and Temperance.
So happy these hipsters aren’t keeping me up at night anymore.
Some of us actually have to work in the morning and support all you lazy bums.
Citizens for Warmth and Temperance –
Please provide your address so my friends and I can yell for hours in the middle of the night, keeping you up.
Thanks and have a wonderful day!
I agree with what he said above. Sort of like the man upstairs talking down to us. I want peace and quiet in this city and I’m going to have my way if I have to personally shut down I-5 between the hours of 7pm and 3am so that I can get my sleep (earplug free) and get to my work an hour early.
To bad they don’t pay me enough for a quieter place.