Hudson Spyros Laughter and Stoke During Ski Week When it was announced that we would be going to Ski Cooper, our local ski mountain here in Leadville, I was ecstatic. The goal of ski week is to prepare everyone for our wintery, second expedition into the backcountry mountains of Colorado. Additionally, we make sure everyone […]
Lily Currie Finding Positivity Through Moments of Gratitude Second expedition (the skiing expedition) was a grueling ten-day adventure filled with backcountry telemark skiing, building quigloos (a huge pile of packed snow that you dig out from the top and side and then live inside them), and pulling sleds through the Mosquito mountain range. Each day
Angelina Smith Anticipatory Nerves and The Bus Rides I woke up the morning of the big drive to Bears Ears National Monument and headed to Stuen Hall to meet some cabin mates for morning yoga before we headed on the buses. At this point campus in general had been a place of unfamiliarity. Today though,
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
Esperanza Ashenbrenner The SEL Experience On our last day of Independent Student Travel (IST), we gathered in a circle on the uneven sandy ground of a drainage. Each one of us was tasked with giving ourselves and the Student Expedition Leader (SEL) a strength and a piece of growth-oriented feedback. I was the Student Expedition
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
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
Mavis Downey:My Growth as a Leader: an Exped Expert Going into my first expedition, the main thing on my mind was how jacked I would be by the end of it. I had no clue that my biggest point of growth would not be quite as materialistic. Dirty, soggy, and on my last straw: that’s
Connor Holloway: Waking up in the morning is astonishing. I have a window that faces the entire campus. It faces east, so when the morning sun rises, It shines on my face. This is my favorite way to start the day. I normally always naturally wake up around 6:30. Sometimes, I like to sleep in
Group A: Lea Zwecker Third expedition, our last expedition with my HMI family, in the canyons of Utah. With 8 other girls, we spent 11 days laughing and screaming in the bottom of the canyons. One day we begrudgingly woke up at 4 am to hike along the San Juan river – using our headlights
