Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What is the history of the land I’m standing on? Through whose hands has it passed ownership? How can we acknowledge these histories? Throughout all HMI programs, a key part of our school’s mission is to engage students with the natural world. During the HMI Semester, each student […]
As the snow melts and the Sun comes out, people’s smiles get a little bigger every day. Despite the heavy loads of homework, everyone on campus is finding ways to have fun. Many of us have found that going on runs together is something that helps us relax and focus on school work. This Saturday,
We have had many visitors on campus lately. From relatives to aspiring science teachers, people keep showing up at our slippery doorstep. Apprentices from Semester 40 arrived yesterday to mingle with the students and showed up just in time to watch us stumble in after our six mile run. Needless to say we weren’t very
Group A: Second expedition was an adventure in the Colorado back-country, one like no other. Between the curiously strong weather and various challenges with the native wildlife it taught us physical and mental fortitude. There was nothing more satisfying than our first night in the quigloo (a type of snow cave) after a day working
Last Friday we started Ski Week! Every other day (Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday, Thursday) we’ve all gone to Ski Cooper Mountain to learn how to Telemark Ski. Students were split into groups based on their past experience with skiing and the faculty were also put in groups to teach the students. During school days we
This week Luis Guillermo Benites visited HMI to give a talk to the students about the extreme mountaineering adventures he has been on in his life. He explained the immense amount of work that it took to accomplish a goal of summiting the famed Seven Peaks, the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
Group A: Our ten day expedition began with an eight hour bus ride full of introductions, forgetting each others names and Liz’s extensive Beyonce repertoire on iTunes. We all awkwardly played car ride games and asked where each other was from. As the landscape outside our bus windows turned from a whirlwind of snow to
The Climbing Hall has invoked a sense of kinship as well as rivalry among our semester. Climbers of all abilities come together to learn from each other and to grow stronger. The Hall has led to incredible physical and mental growth for students, including those who climb every week and who didn’t know how physically
Residential life at HMI is in a fun and relaxing environment, especially within the close knit community of our cabins and all of HMI. It’s really fun to walk to the West Building bathrooms and hear music blasting as people dance along outside while they brush their teeth. Some students report that they’ve never had
May 25, 4:25 The wildfire on our property has been completely extinguished and there is no damage to our structures or vehicles. HMI staff and students have been cleared to return to campus and will be doing so later this afternoon. We consider ourselves extremely lucky that this fire was mitigated so skillfully by first
