On to Creek Camp at Allegheny College!

A good time was had by all on Saturday evening! The formal "welcome to Pittsburgh" took place at Bella Vista Italian Ristorante, located at the top of the Duquesne Incline on scenic Mount Washington. The picture does not show it, but the view from Bella Vista is truly beautiful with it's sweeping panorama of the entire downtown Pittsburgh area below.

(You can click on any picture in the blog to see it full-size.)

Pictured L to R: Leader Megan, Moritz, Leonie, Imke, Martin, Florian, Leader Brandon, Education Coordinator Christine.


The campers spent Saturday night at Duquesne University's St. Anne Hall. After attending morning services, the group traveled 2 hours north of Pittsburgh to Meadville, PA, for the beginning of Allegheny College Creek Connection's "Creek Camp," sponsored by Bayer. Director Jim Palmer, Wendy Kiedzierski, Laura Branby and the Creek Camp crew welcomed everyone to the college, located adjacent to pristine French Creek. The full attendance of Creek Camp is truly international, and includes students from the United States, Costa Rica and Germany.

At Creek Camp, the campers are living in eco-friendly style in the recently constructed green student housing facility known as North Village on the Allegheny College campus. Lest anyone worry about the heat and humidity, all of our students' rooms are air-conditioned!

You can find the link to the Creek Camp blog in the column to the right. Creek Camp gets rolling early Monday morning, and you can check in with the blog to see what's going on throughout the week. Our five German explorers will return to Pittsburgh on Friday evening, along with three American students, for week 2 of Bayer Climate Fellows Sustainability Camp.

To all our colleagues at Creek Camp: hope you have a fantastic week!

See you soon.

Jeff Jordan
Director of Education