Bay Area/ San Francisco

How To Tumble Down Bernal Hill Without Spilling Your Beer

Published on March 14, 2017
How To Tumble Down Bernal Hill Without Spilling Your BeerPhoto via Gfycat.

This story was originally published on Bernalwood, Bernal Heights' community-powered news source.


Bernal Heights old-timers will tell you about the days when children used to love sliding down Bernal Hill on a piece of cardboard. Today we live in more extreme times, with ready access to video documentation tools, so this is how it’s done now: no cardboard required.

In this video shared late last week on Reddit, we see a wannabe stuntman casually handing his beer to a friend before tumbling headlong down the black-diamond north face of Bernal Hill.

Suffice it to say, “Kids, don’t try this at home.”