
It seems that no matter how long that I have lived in Pittsburgh, the city and its region continues to surprise me. When I originally moved here, my plan was to stay just two years so that I could complete graduate school. Then skedaddle. Twenty-two years later, I am still here. And I am still making surprising discoveries that remind me of how glad that I am that I stayed. Case in point: Emerald View Park. Pittsburgh’s newest addition to its family of parks. Even though Emerald View wraps along Mount Washington for the whole world to see, I only just discovered the park this past Sunday thanks to Jennifer Brown and David Bennet of Venture Outdoors. Jen and David are, like me, members of the Venture Outdoors “Trip Leader Council,” which is comprised of eleven volunteers, with varying skills and specialities, who work to help develop and promote programming for […]
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