This week we enjoyed a wide variety of activities and classes. For our science class, we drove to the nearby town of Frisco to research the effects that pine beetles can have on forests. For our humanities class, we completed our Humans of Leadville project that helped build our sense place here in Leadville. For our […]
This week was swell! We had an off-campus trip for both our science and humanities classes. Our science class had its first lab in the field which allowed us to experience water testing at two different water sources, above and below a dam, which was a lot of fun! We conquered a stream crossing and
Last week, we headed out on our first expedition. This entailed three different groups setting out to explore the Sawatch mountain range over the span of eight days. For most of us, venturing out into the field was a completely new experience. Groups took on new challenges: carrying eight days worth of food, navigating through
When we first got to HMI, we were nervous about meeting the people that we would be spending the next five weeks with. But, after a few hours, we really got to know each other. A long day of travel and being at 10,200 feet didn’t stop us from meeting the kids and the interns. They
The week on campus following expedition was a wonderful yet emotionally taxing time, as we all felt a sense of dread about leaving our new friends and this beautiful place which has come to mean so much to us. The week started off with presentations of our Personal Environmental Ethic Projects for our Practices & Principles: Ethics
The shy sun began to rise over the horizon as expedition Group A scaled the base of Mt. Massive. It was our group’s 5th day on expedition, and it started very early: one of the leaders for that day had to wake everyone up at 3:30am in order to begin hiking around 4:15. We started the hike up
We have had another action-packed week! The highlight in our humanities class were the interviews of Leadville residents that we did in order to learn more about current-day Leadville. We interviewed store owners, fourth-generation Leadvillians, and the former mayor (to name but a few), all of whom had pretty diverse perspectives on Leadville and Leadville’s
We are into our second week of classes here at HMI, and it couldn’t be going any better! Science, Practices & Principles: Ethics of the Natural World (P&P), and Humanities have all been distinctive and entertaining, as well as extremely informative. In Science, we have been venturing outside the classroom in order to record data about two separate
Hello family, hello friends. Yes, we’re back from our first expedition. Yes, it was amazing. Yes, we know we haven’t called yet. Let’s start off with some of the basics. First expedition began three days after our arrival to HMI. After having packed astonishing amounts of food into our packs (about 15 pounds per group member)
The morning and the arrival at the Denver airport was the easy part. Then began the worrying about finding the HMI representative, meeting our new friends, and anticipating the drive to Leadville. We eventually found a goofy and overly-happy person (Jacob, the Humanities teacher at HMI) who asked our names and then told us to hang with the
