The Pittsburgh
Council is no longer an activity-based
organization. Due to the South Side hostel's drain on the
organization's funds, the council is now dormant and is reevaluating it goals and mission.
If you would like to help in this endeavor contact
Grant Erwin, the
current president.- The Pittsburgh Council's main (and sizeable) contribution to the
quality of life in this area was once its outings program - a lively mix of hiking, bicycling, flat-water
canoeing,
white-water canoeing, kayaking, caving, climbing, ski-touring, backpacking
and a few
others (kite-flying??), plus countless schools in many of these activities.
-
AYH built the
Baker Trail and the Rachel Carson Trail that could take one from Pittsburgh
to
Allegheny National Forest.
These trails have been adopted by the
Rachel Carson
Trails Conservancy
- AYH published numerous editions of numerous
guides to hiking and canoeing in the region.
A revision if the
Canoeing Guide to
Western Pennsylvania should be available Aug-Sept 2005
-
AYH's extended
summer trips took many
of us on unforgettable trips such as backpacking on Mt. Rainier, the Olympic
Rainforest, the Olympic Seashore, the North Cascades and Rocky Mtn. National
Park,
cycling hostel-to-hostel in New England, hut-hopping in the White Mountains,
whitewater
canoeing and sail-canoeing on the streams and lakes of Wisconsin and
countless
others.
- No one will ever know how many multi-decade-long
friendships came out of the delights, camaraderie, trials and
tribulations of all those thousands of trips.
This web site preserves some of the
history of Pittsburgh Council. The January 2015 newsletter lists some other organization and outdoor
activities in the Pittsburgh area. |