Tag: Leadville
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Get Your Lightning Legs on
Join in the fun of the inaugural Jack o’ Lead Lightning 5K Trail Run on Saturday, October 27th! All CMC staff, students and faculty are invited to participate. On-site registration takes place at 3 PM in the Climax Gym at the Leadville Campus; the race starts at 4 PM. You can also register at the…
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Explore Historic Leadville Weekend Sept. 14-16
Discover Leadville and Lake County’s colorful and wild past Miners, cowboys, ranchers and madams helped shape the colorful history of Leadville, Colo., one of America’s richest and long-lived mining boomtowns. History buffs can learn more about the lives of these hardworking, rough-and-tumble settlers during the fun and educational Explore Historic Leadville weekend, Sept. 14-16,…
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CMC Leadville hosts Project Healing Waters for third year
Leadville- Ten Fort Carson soldiers recently spent three days in the tranquility and splendor of the local mountains to renew their minds and bodies. They were participants of Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc. (PHWFF) for Fort Carson and were accompanied by two PHWFF staff. They were hosted by Colorado Mountain College Leadville Campus for…
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Get Lost in Leadville
Fourteeners, rafting, Leadville 100’s, no roundabouts and solitude: Leadville is calling your name CMC Leadville bachelor’s degree student Becky Aurora explores Leadville’s advantages in a recent post in her blog, Life at 10,200 feet. I’d be lying if I said that I love Leadville 100% of the time. There are definitely times when I wish…
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Openings in CMC’s free First Ascent Youth Leadership program
Applications accepted through June 1 Current ninth- and 10th-graders (next year’s 10th- and 11th-graders) are invited to apply for the free First Ascent Youth Leadership program, which will be held June 24-29 at Colorado Mountain College’s residential campus in Leadville. Now in its 18th year, First Ascent teaches leadership skills in an outdoor college setting,…
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New altitude for sustainable energy
Solar farm harvests power for CMC in Leadville By Kristin Carlson The new solar farm at the Leadville campus of Colorado Mountain College is one of the first, large-scale solar arrays designed to maximize sustainable energy savings at a high altitude, where cold temperatures and heavy snows typically make energy conservation a challenge. “Making the…
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CMC Leadville’s Rail Jam featured in The Denver Post
Last weekend’s Rail Jam event at CMC in Leadville was featured yesterday in Denver Post writer Jason Blevin’s regular column “Outdoor Extremes.” The entire event is put on by Colorado Mountain College’s ski area operations program students, 95 percent of whom land jobs at ski areas after graduation. Colorado Mountain College’s ski area operations program…
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Ski-joring, Mineral Belt Mayhem, and Shelter Dog Shuffles
Leadville’s Crystal Carnival weekend celebrates life at altitude This article was originally published on Leap Day, in CMC Leadville student Becky Aurora’s blog, Life at 10,200 feet Happy Leap Day! This morning Leadville work up to a blanket of snow on the ground. I’m not sure of the exact inches in Leadville, but Copper Mountain…
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Ready to Loppet?!
Ready for an intense lung burn for a great cause? Get your wax on for the Leadville Loppet this weekend! The ninth annual Loppet’s 10K, 22k and 44k nordic ski race courses start at CMC in Leadville, rolling along the Timberline Trail network before jumping onto the Mineral Belt trail and then returning to CMC…
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Videos offer new students sneak preview of CMC
Prospective students will be arriving soon to tour Colorado Mountain College’s Steamboat, Glenwood Springs – Spring Valley and Leadville campuses during the college’s annual Visit Days. For those who can’t attend the real thing, a series of new videos highlighting several CMC locations and programs can offer a virtual tour instead. We’ll be sharing these…