A wildfire breaks out near Twin Lakes, CO on June, 11, 2024. Photo Credit: Steve Sunday On a Tuesday afternoon in June, 2024, a plume of smoke started to rise about ten miles south of HMI’s campus. Word spread rapidly between HMI employees and residents: a wildfire had sprung up by Twin Lakes. We would […]
On November 11th, a satellite text message went out to the four HMI expeditions in the canyons of Utah: “Election Results. President: Trump, Senate: Republican, House: Still up for grabs. Please use the curriculum provided and pass on this news on the last night.” The 2024 election, like past elections and many major news events,
As of fall, 2024, the HMI Semester is now led by two co-directors: Sergio Juárez, who oversees student & residential life, and Tate Castro who oversees academics and faculty. We sat down with Sergio & Tate to ask them about their backgrounds, connections to HMI, and if they’ve ever started a ski team in a
By Abby Waisler HMI Semester 45 (Fall, 2020) Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences (CA) Class of 2022 Bates College (ME) Class of 2026 Professional live music photographer Noah Kahan & Gracie Abrams at Fenway Park I arrived at HMI in the early months of COVID-19, without an ability to understand how life-saving the experience
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.
