Outdoors Club at Pitt

The Horizon You wake to the sun, breaking the clouds The air shaking off its misty shrouds The stars dim as the brightness grows And the last log on your fire softly glows You smell the coffee and hear your friends, Realizing as night finally ends That it's a new day, finally here With the mission at hand, ready and near Rolling out of your tent, you look towards the sky, Seeing a mountain of stone, looming up high Packing your gear with one thought in mind To view the horizon, leaving the surface behind It's all been for this, to summit the peak And gaze out on everything, is of what you do speak After persisting all day, you stand at the top But what's viewed in the distance soon makes you stop Out on the vista, stands another grand peak A brand new horizon for you to go seek Off in the distance, another challenge there lies, For those with a spirit, and fire in their eyes To crest one more mountain, that is your goal, And take a look at oneself, in body and soul So the j...

The Horizon You wake to the sun, breaking the clouds The air shaking off its misty shrouds The stars dim as the brightness grows And the last log on your fire softly glows You smell the coffee and hear your friends, Realizing as night finally ends That it's a new day, finally here With the mission at hand, ready and near Rolling out of your tent, you look towards the sky, Seeing a mountain of stone, looming up high Packing your gear with one thought in mind To view the horizon, leaving the surface behind It's all been for this, to summit the peak And gaze out on everything, is of what you do speak After persisting all day, you stand at the top But what's viewed in the distance soon makes you stop Out on the vista, stands another grand peak A brand new horizon for you to go seek Off in the distance, another challenge there lies, For those with a spirit, and fire in their eyes To crest one more mountain, that is your goal, And take a look at oneself, in body and soul So the j...

What is up everyone in the POC!? Happy New Year from your lanky liaison of literary letter writing and hope you all had a happy, merry, festive, jovial, cheerful, jolly, and especially outdoorsy winter break! Can you even wait any longer for a whole new year of nature-filled goodness with {clearly the best club on campus[I mean it(seriously!)]} the PITT OUTDOORS CLUB!!!<3!!!:)!!!!?!!!#POC!!! Are you ready for some backwoods adventure? How about some front woods exploration? Or are you more of a side to side escapade person? Well no matter, because we cater to all kinds whether you be a mountain man, water woman, bouldering boy, kayaking cutie, hiking hero, the list goes on and on and we love all of you (Yes, you specifically!) in a (mostly) platonic sort of way. Enough of the rambling though because there are legitimate announcements to be made. Are you one of the people that was disappointed it didn't snow much over break? Did you ask Santa to turn the thermostat to artic chill...

It's that time in the week we have been waiting for my weary wanderers. Don't worry, we've only got about a week of wandering wearily left and after weeping over exams you feel you wasted a week working towards, we can all welax and wejoice they are wover. In case you couldn't tell, this morning's email is brought to you by the letter W, as in Wumbo. You know, I wumbo, you wumbo, he – she – me…wumbo. Wumbology! The study of wumbo?! It's first grade, but that's beside the point. Friday. 6pm. VO Seasonal Hike. Be there or be square(pants). Seriously though, this is the last club activity of the year so come out and enjoy one more day with your favorite club. Here's the link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V0g8UJ-CR9qYh47FQ5_XZlYqN2Kipr1GVx6I1QXClKQ/edit?usp=sharing Not very involved in volunteering on campus? Maybe it's about time you give a thread! Signup for the extremely laborious job of receiving clothes and gently placing them in a box! ...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EZKzVoSJ76PzUJ_nHSHZPzNj18EJASWwdlJTrJ20AUU/edit?usp=sharing Hurry up slowpoke, because this is the link for geocaching with venture outdoors. If you want to mingle with mountainous members of other universities. The deadline is Thursday at noon so don't wait. If you want to go on a treasure hunt, walk around with a gps, find ground zero, possibly pick up a geocoin or a travel bug, and meet other awesome people like you [Yes I'm talking about you sexy ;) ] then sign up. Oh, and because I forgot to mention, THERE WILL BE FOOD!!! So make sure you sign up by Thursday at 12. The following week will be a hiking trip with venture outdoors so stay tuned. If you want to make a difference, save the whales, and potentially put Kevin Vose and I out of future jobs (Chemical/Petroleum Engineers), then come join the Fossil Free PITT Coalition which will talk about getting Pitt to divest from companies involved with the petroleum industry. The meeting ...

Hey Everyone, Just a few tasty, tidbits about tonight's POC meeting. 1st: We will still be at the WPU. Why? Because the weather is still freakin beautiful, that's why. 2nd: If you want a t-shirt, the google doc is still up until tomorrow. Also, if you already signed up to get a shirt, you can bring us your money tonight. 3rd: That will be all until tonight's second email (the important one) goes out. Stay tuned for POC Part II: Revenge of the Dirty Laundry -Nick Peanut (zer)

#NOTE: If you have an issue about anything, quit replying to the pitt outdoors gmail because no one moderates it. It is merely a channel through which we send out these messages. Instead email this handsome devil, Troy Ferland at tmf39@pitt.edu if you have any issues. Thank You. To our regular members, back to business. What day is it? Do you know what day it is? Huh? Do yuh? It's hump day, HUMP DAY, YEEAAAHHH at 4:01 A.M. to be specific. Well folks, we're back from that crazy long commercial break we call Wednesday through Monday. And for all of you who keep on reading week after week, you keep doing you because that's awesome. Two weeks ago's next week was Dolly Sods, which apparently was very awesome and Sods-like. There were beautiful vistas, some typical West Virginia dampness, and the man, the myth, the legend Erik (Daaaaa Beard) Jensen as your guide through the whole experience. What more could you ask for. Also, on Saturday, a group traveled with venture outdoo...