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A Mountain’s Tale: Lion’s Paw, Mount Nittany, and its ‘Green and Growing’ Acres
This article is from the publication Faces of Penn State, Vol 8 No. 1 Winter 1982. The piece describes Mountain legends and history. Things have changed since it was published. The Outing Club no longer maintains the trails (the Mount Nittany Conservancy does it now) or hosts a climb up Mt. Nittany to start the school year. The Halloween “Idiot Overnight” event has also fallen by the wayside. What remains the same is the “special place in the hearts of…
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State College City-Serve Does Mountain Clean-up
Can we serve you now? This is the rallying cry of a group of dedicated volunteers from the State College City-Serve project, http://www.sc-cityserve.org. On Sunday, April 27, a group of City-Serve volunteers spent the day picking up trash and removing debris from the hiking trails on Mt. Nittany. The 17 volunteers split into 4 teams that covered all nine-miles of hiking trails and a couple miles of four-wheel drive roads on Mt. Nittany. They picked up garbage, re-blazed faded blue…
