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Happy Body Love Month from Peaks and SAGE! Join us on this fantastic collab hike as we dive into self-love and how we can take care of ourselves out in nature. A chill hike to an incredible LA viewpoint in the Santa Monica Mountains? A phenomenal professor and expert in nutrition and gerontology? Sign me (and you?) up!
PACKING LIST:
COMFORTABLE SHOES
WATER!
MORE WATER!
SUNSCREEN
WAIVERS
OPTIONAL: HAT, SNACKS, etc.
PROFESSOR: Carin Kreutzer
DEPARTMENT: Gerontology
Professor Kreutzer has been a practicing Registered Dietitian since 1982, primarily serving at-risk and underserved pediatric and young adult populations. She worked in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as a clinical dietitian and directed maternal and child health nutrition for the New Mexico Department of Public Health. For over 20-years she directed community education at the USC Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Teaching responsibilities have included part-time nutrition courses at several universities in Southern CA and since 2014 at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology where she now teaches full-time! She continues to provide limited services at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the Alta Med Pediatric Clinic running healthy eating workshops for parents and children who are overweight or obese.
PEAK: Inspiration Point
DIFFICULTY: 2/5
SCENERY: Inspiration Point is the perfect place to disconnect and escape into the Santa Monica Mountains. On this 2-3 round trip hike to the point itself, get ready to see the expanse of Los Angeles from way up. Coastal weather and a phenomenal lookout spot, what’s not to love!
FUN FACT: On a clear day, you can see all the way to Catalina Island!
TRIP LEAD: Ciara
wants to go apple picking. very soon.
Contact Ciara: ciaraand@usc.edu (hyperlinked!)
Read Ciara's bio here. (hyperlinked!)