It appears no-one is driving down to the Hot Metal Bridge - I think vacation season has hit. So rather than running down to Hot Metal and back we will just start at Coffee Tree and take pot luck.
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We were having such a fun time at Paula's that we forgot to choose a run for this coming week so Wendy and I had a confab and chose a run on the trail beside the Mon going toward Sandcastle. Meet at the parking lot just beside the Hot Metal Bridge which you can reach by just going straight at the light at Bates and making a left.
Are people interested in a run to the run? It is light enough that we could run through Schenley, if someone knew the way. Meet at 6:30 at the Coffee Tree.
It gets tiresome describing every run as absolutely stupendous but this Sunday's REALLY was. Paula TB navigated us through the Grand Prix barriers to the Wendy Bennett trail where not too far in we took a steep path, marked handily by Paula, down, down, down to Panther Hollow. Just before we emerged from the forest we found a patch of ripe wine berries which we gobbled greedily. Then it was into "the Run", as one of the residents called this area of lower Greenfield, past quaint houses and churches. There was even a mailbox in the shape of a trout. We stopped to admire that big church with the onion domes you can see from the Parkway then tackled the steps just next to it. This is a very long flight of Pittsburgh steps with several missing risers - quite tricky. About mid-way a drenching rainstorm moved in. Pam, Sharon and I stayed under cover but Paula and Roye enjoyed the cooling wet at the top. We continued on through some quaint streets in Greenfield (I am often feel I have landed in some other city on these runs), up Beechwood, to Pocusset where we found yet another secret trail which brought us out right at the loop in Schenley where many of the Vintage cars were parked. We spent quite a few minutes ogling the cars and watching them take off for their time trials. If this was not enough, we ended our run with scrumptious cakes and coffee at Paula's lovely new house. The walkers joined us for a memorable Sunday - the Coffee Tree just won't be the same! Thanks Paula!
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