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A 25th anniversary with taste
[metaslider id=”23″]CMC Culinary Institute alumni return to create feast for 100 lucky diners By Carrie Click If you’re like most college alumni, during your reunion you probably walked around holding a little plate topped with cheese and crackers and maybe a few carrot sticks while you balanced a drink in your other hand. In a…
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Turning adversity into strength: Weihenmayer will show you how
Next time you’re at a trailhead, the top of a ski run or a river put-in, imagine not being able to see. Now imagine stepping onto the trail, taking off downhill or wedging into a kayak and floating away. Welcome to Erik Weihenmayer’s world. Author and blind adventurer Weihenmayer is an internationally renowned speaker and…
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CMC provides land for Gear Library to help locals ‘Get Outdoors Leadville!’
Colorado Mountain College Leadville has stepped up to provide land on its campus so that Get Outdoors Leadville! can build a community gear library and hub where locals can check out equipment like camping gear, snowshoes and bikes, and have access to outdoor recreation skills training. Great Outdoors Leadville!, also known as GOL!, works to…
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CMC Leadville launches avalanche awareness Twitter campaign #CMCAviAware
Backcountry tips, avalanche facts tweeted through March 3
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CMC professor selected as panelist at Latin American studies conference
Colorado Mountain College professor Dr. Bob Gumbrecht will be a panelist at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress this May in Barcelona. The conference’s theme, “Latin American Studies in a Globalized World,” will focus on how people around the world perceive Latin America. It will also examine how Latin American studies contribute to the…
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Plan A or Plan B?
The Rifle Citizen Telegram published this column in its Feb. 22 edition. By Thomas Valles, CMC director of financial aid I hear from students fairly often that Colorado Mountain College is a good “Plan B” school. I disagree. I know, many students believe that graduating from a prestigious college will yield a better, higher-paying future,…
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CMC’s Common Reader welcomes ‘No Barriers’ author
First blind person to summit Everest to discuss new book abut kayaking the Grand Canyon
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New CMC avalanche science program to host open house
Campus tour, light dinner, Q&A on docket Feb. 16