Gap Rock ’24 Hello from Patagonia. On November 10th we touched down here after many hours of plane time. We were kindly greeted by the beautiful landscape of Patagonia and an unreal ferry ride across lake Buenos Aires to our base in Chile, Chico. After a couple days of lounging around and packing we headed […]
Isabelle graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2022 with a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Isabelle Ross HMI Semester 38 (Spring 2017) Holton Arms School / Hun School of Princeton 2018 United States Naval Academy 2022 What does HMI mean
Summer moves quickly through Leadville. As Summer Term students can attest, snow persists in the mountains well into July most years, and frost is a frequent nightly occurrence. Famously, Leadville has recorded snowfall during every month of the year. As I write this, summer, in all its two months of glory, has passed. The aspens
Jacob Sheetz-Willard: HMI History Faculty 2014-2019, English Faculty 2019-Present “I.T.G.S.O.T.I.N.B.D.” I learned this initialism from a co-instructor during my first trip in the Sawatch: “In the grand scheme of things, it’s no big deal.” It’s become a mantra of sorts through my ten years of salaried employment at the High Mountain Institute. Useful while desperately
Leadville, Colorado has come a long way in the nearly 30 years since HMI cofounders Molly and Christopher Barnes selected the town to be the home of their new school. At that time, the mid-1990s, Leadville’s economy was bottoming out. Climax Mine, Lake County’s largest employer for most of the 20th century, had closed the
Written by: Grace and Caleb We arrived in Moab on the 28th of October, excited by the prospect of climbing that would not destroy our hands as badly as Indian Creek. We were welcomed by a furious lightning storm, and Luke and Macy rushing to our tarps to tell us to get into a lightning position.
Waylon Zedonis Enjoy the Ride: A Bus Trek to Utah Going into our Second Expedition, we had an eight hour bus ride ahead of us all the way to the canyons in Utah, and another eight hour ride back. Initially, it sounded like a daunting experience. But, as we soon found out, itwas one of
Written by: Grace and Eleanor Hello! This is Grace and Eleanor writing to you all from a rainy and cold community park in a town we have forgotten the name of, somewhere in Utah. The past few days of rain have prevented us from climbing the delicate sandstone here in Indian Creek, but we are
Abraham Zepeta: Un Momento Como Este – A Moment Like This Ya sea despertarme a las 6:30 AM o después de mi clase de Español, a las 2:20 PM, cocinar con mis compañeres es una gran diversión. Tenemos la responsabilidad de alimentar al semestre, y cada día tenemos nuevos platillos para cocinar! Al terminar nuestro
By Art Couture and JD Wilson As we first arrived at HMI, feelings of being in an unfamiliar place arose in all of us. As our first days on campus went by, we began to learn some of the skills needed to have a comfortable time being outdoors for an extended time. Our first days
