Ten of us went to McConnells Mill for rock climbing. The trip focused on teaching safe belaying and harness use. We discussed equipment, belaying, anchoring the belayer, tying in, lowering, climbing commands, and hazards. The lesson went well, but the climbing was hard for beginners due to wet conditions.
-M. Tschantz
Left the storeroom at 10am and Returned at 6pm. 12 people in three cars and probably half of those had never been climbing. Beautiful weather, climbed all day, everything went without a hitch.
-F. Kleshchev
Mathew Mooty, Ameya Kanitkar, Tamar Melman, Brendan Ryan, and I departed for hiking at McConnells Mill State Park at noon on Sunday. Amy and Lux also set off for the park to do some climbing. After the hour drive, we began the hike at the mill under a sunny blue sky with a temperature in the low 80s. After hiking along the Gorge Trail for a few hours, we stopped for lunch on a large rock next to Slippery Rock Creek. Before heading back, we took advantage of a nice section of the creek to skip some rocks and discuss the merits of rock skipping as a competitive sport. At the end of the hike we ran into Lux and Amy, back from climbing. Back at the mill we watched some kayakers fool around above the waterfall before returning to Pittsburgh.
-E. Goldblum
Summer was coming to an end. So we took advantage of the lack of excuses and went out to Coopers Rock. We made it out around ten with three cars and more crash bad then have ever come on a single explores club trip. We arrived and headed over to tilted tree area. We can into a nice sized crowd from Pitt at the crag, but for the first time in recent memory CMU outnumbered them. Everyone got in plenty of good sends. Tibo threw down on Twist-Dah-Hick, and Amy topped out her first outdoor problems.
-M. Schnall
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