I did a ton of planning the night before. The goal start was Don's Diner in the north shore, claimed to be the best pancakes in the city by one person my friend talked to one time who said they were eating every pancake in Pittsburgh. The goal end was the South Side slopes. I had bike a lot of these hills on the Dirty Dozen and wanted to walk them too. I printed out maps of the parts of the city I wanted to go through and lined them up. Then I used the Pittsburgh City Steps website (unfortunately looks to no longer exist) to find every stair along the route, and this amazing blog to see their conditions. I then color-coded all of the steps on our route by the priority of going to those stairs.