Wells Alling Graney Family Weekend Family weekend started off on Friday night with a thirty minute deep clean of HMI. We all had to do our chores and make sure that HMI was in the best shape it could be for our parents.Then, we started marching from Barnes, our main building, to the Head of […]
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
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
“A sense of place is both the emotional attachment we experience and emotional bond we create with particular environments based on our own cultural backgrounds and/or personal perspectives” says Running for Public Lands (RPL) board president Vic Thasiah in a recent Q&A reflection on RPL’s Camp and Run event, held in our own Leadville, Colorado
At 26 years old, HMI now boasts hundreds of former faculty, staff, and apprentices who have gone on to pursue diverse careers in education, the outdoors, and more. We recently checked in with five former faculty members (whose combined tenures span 3/4 of the school’s history!) about what they’re up to post-HMI. Nancy Hiemstra &
Laura Alonzo-Ochoa is HMI’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Coordinator and an active Air National Guardswoman When I was a kid I used to get mesmerized by passing clouds. I would play outdoors until the streetlights came on. I was not an indoor kid. My brother used to negotiate chores with me, because he favored indoor
As I approach my one-year mark of being back at HMI, I have marked a number of “firsts” in my new role: first moonlight cross-country ski, first board meeting on campus, first time on telemark skis in twelve years… The year has been full of firsts, as well as first-time-in-awhile reacquaintances. One thing that is
Hi Simon, welcome back to HMI! Can you tell us a bit about your new role and your connection to HMI? Thank you so much! I couldn’t be more excited to be back at HMI and in Leadville and I’m really looking forward to seeing the school from a staff perspective. My role is Advancement
Amy Roberts on the Semester 43 Fun Run (Fall 2019) By Ray McGaughey, Director of Development and Semester 15 Alum At HMI we spend a good deal of time sharing gratitude. On campus, we have a tradition called Grati-Tuesdays where community members publicly thank one another for acts of kindness. With the passing of the
