Partner Trips

Explore Colorado, Utah, and Patagonia with us.

Whether you’re a school looking for a week-long trip for your students, an organization looking for team-building opportunities, or a group looking for a unique shared experience, we are excited to help you design and execute an unforgettable custom trip. See sample trips below:

Colorado Backpacking & Leadership (8-10 days)

Utah Backpacking & Indigenous History (5-10 days)

Patagonia Backpacking, Spanish & Glaciology (10-14 days)

Design Your Adventure

Drawing on 25 years of experience, HMI has the expertise and resources to offer trips across the American West (Colorado & Utah) and Chilean Patagonia throughout the calendar year.

If you are a school seeking an immersive outdoor trip for your students, an organization looking to develop your leadership team, or simply a group of family or friends in search of a private adventure experience, we are excited to partner with you. 

Our collaborative approach to program design offers flexibility to create an intentional experience that achieves your leadership, community, and adventure goals. 

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Intentional Expeditions for School Partners

When you partner with HMI, your students experience a program grounded in the integration of the inspiration and challenge of outdoor adventure with deeper intellectual engagement & leadership skills.

In recent years, we’ve worked with schools to run expeditions that extend a partner school’s literature or leadership course. School partners include:

  • Berkeley Carroll School
  • Riverdale Country School
  • Colorado Academy
  • The Hockaday School



HMI Partners Are Saying

"The partnership with HMI allows Berkeley Carroll to take 12 seniors on a backpacking expedition in the spring of their senior year, complementing their at-school study of the West with a study of place. Our mostly inexperienced or novice backpackers learned to navigate with topographical maps, work as a team, and understand their strengths, weaknesses, needs — and how their peers could support them ... Berkeley Carroll is excited and grateful to continue this partnership!"
Jane MooreUpper School Director, Berkeley Carroll School (Trip Chaperone)
Jane Moore
"Unforgettable experience. I left with more confidence, a better understanding of myself, and of my place in the natural world...it was pure magic."
Berkeley Carroll AlumPartner Program Participant
Berkeley Carroll Alum
"Truly an experience of a lifetime that I continue to think back on and will carry with me forever. The bliss of having to do nothing more than just survive was incredibly freeing. Be prepared for challenges but expect the highest of highs!"
Berkeley Carroll AlumPartner Program Participant
Berkeley Carroll Alum

Organizations

Bringing your team on a backcountry trip with HMI is so much more than a few days in the woods: it’s an investment in each person’s self-awareness, confidence, and social capital that will help your team thrive. HMI can work with you to develop a program that builds team camaraderie and common language around:

  • Decision-making and leadership styles
  • Creating a culture of feedback
  • Managing conflict
  • Goal setting and action plans
  • Group dynamics

Private Trips

Ever dreamed of going on a trip with your friends to Chilean Patagonia but gotten overwhelmed by logistics? Are you an avid indoor sport climber ready to challenge yourself with an outdoor experience but aren’t sure where to start? Did you participate in an HMI trip ten years ago but haven’t backpacked since and are ready to dust off your skills? We’re here to help.

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