Young sledders take to Mt. Temple

While many students spent the day fussing about the latest installment of Snowmageddon, and the university’s decision to not close the university, other people saw the silver-lining: a snow-clad pile of dirt.

Shortly after 6 p.m., a group of people, who appeared to be local middle- to high-school aged youngsters, were seen taking to the dirt mound adjacent to the Dirt Lot for some good, old-fashioned sledding.

The Dirt Lot, at 11th Street and Montgomery Avenue, is infamously known for its risky, unregulated parking space. Did its neighboring dirt mound become an intermediate alp for the young sledders, or a temporary safety hazard?