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Colorado Rockies – Mountaineer & Rock Climb

Each day, climb peaks at sunrise and enjoy alpine lakes at sunset – all while building courage, confidence, and friendships in the outdoors.

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Colorado Rockies

CB20 Course Overview

About This Course

Activity

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Setting & Location

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Students Can Earn

  • College Credit

Session Details

5 sessions are available for this course

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What You’ll Learn

Forge an epic adventure! On Outward Bound courses for high schoolers, you’ll make new friends and face exciting new challenges together while building communication and leadership skills that help your group soar to new heights!

What You'll Do

You’ll enjoy some of the most beautiful and seldom-traveled corners of Colorado. You’ll summit technical peaks, learn to climb with ropes, and mountaineer with tools like ice axes. You don’t need to be an all-start athlete to thrive on this adventure, just excited to try new things and reach high peaks.

Where You'll Be

Alpine lakes, fields of wildflowers and sweeping mountain views will be your backyard and classroom for the month. Each day you’ll travel somewhere new, with endless opportunities to enjoy the sounds and sights of the Colorado Rockies.

Why It Matters

High school is hard work – take a break and do something memorable! You’ll explore new places, make friends, and learn skills that will expand your belief in what’s possible. We are crew, not passengers which means you’ll share responsibility for your crew’s success through teamwork, communication, and leadership. Let’s go!

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Classic Courses for High School

What if you had space to feel more connected to yourself, to others, and to the challenging world around you?

Educational Approach

Two Week Courses

You and your crew will participate in unique activities, forging skills to thrive! Sounding your own voice – and considering others’ – you’ll have time to try new ways of working together in a supportive environment. Connecting in moments of harmony and productive struggle, you and your crew will get to ask yourselves big questions like: “Who am I; who are YOU; and how can we best get along?”

Three Week Courses

You’ll develop valuable teamwork skills, sharing failures and wins while having epic adventures! You and your crew will establish a thoughtful community, bonding through hard-earned success. You’ll learn how to both lead and support your group.

Four Week Courses

You’ll have ample time to practice being a leader and building your outdoor skills. You and your crewmates will learn to support each other and grow more confident and courageous every step of the way.

Connection and Care

Focusing on building a connected group where each student’s unique personality is valued, you and your crew will practice the communication skills you need to feel safe, cared for, and pay forward that care for each other as you go adventuring!

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Life on Course

Each day you’ll travel somewhere new and incredibly beautiful. Begin your journey by learning to hike with your backpack and setting up camp as a crew. As you grow your new skills, you’ll take on bigger adventures, like attempting to summit peaks and climbing rock walls. Amidst action-packed days will be time for slowing down to enjoy the beauty of the mountains and connect with your crewmates. By the end of course you’ll emerge a confident outdoor leader and climber. Your totally unplugged summer adventure of a lifetime awaits!

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Sample Itinerary

Spend each day exploring new peaks and valleys while camping under the milky way.

Here’s an example of what your course itinerary might look like. The actual plan will depend on permits, weather, group skills, and instructor evaluation.

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Let's Go

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Course Start Start your journey by meeting your crew, repacking your gear, and getting familiar with the course area. Instructors will guide you through what to expect, what you will learn, and introduce skills to keep you comfortable in the backcountry.
Learning to Backpack Learn the essentials of backcountry travel as you navigate through beautiful mountain landscapes and set up camp in new locations each night. Develop skills in cooking outdoors, navigation, and hiking as a group. You’ll take on "Leader of the Day" roles, helping guide your crew through each day’s goals.
Mountaineering Building on your backpacking skills, you’ll learn to travel through more technical mountain terrain. Instructors will teach you to navigate rocky and snowy trails and attempt to summit peaks.
Rock Climbing Learn to rock climb. Enjoy mountain views from high above the trees and build confidence with every route. You’ll learn to belay and receive climbing tips from your Instructors.
Solo & Final Challenge Participate in a personalized final group challenge designed to test the skills you’ve developed in teamwork, leadership and outdoor adventure. You also might have the chance for a Solo experience, quiet time spent relaxing on your own, anywhere from a few hours to 48 hours, with Instructors nearby for support.
Course End Celebrate your accomplishments during a final pin ceremony. Share what you’ve learned and experienced before heading home with new skills, friendships, and memories.
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This trip really inspired me to break out my of shell and I have a newfound desire to embrace the outdoors.

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This was honestly one of the highlights of my life so far.

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Hours of hiking, climbing, and so much more.  I’ve learned a plethora of new things, made lasting friends, and grew as a person. I now feel like a confident young adult poised to take on all of life’s challenges.

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FAQs

What is mountaineering?

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If you are excited to take on something a little more challenging than hiking – mountaineering is for you! You’ll learn how to travel over snow and rocks using tools like ropes, harnesses, crampons, and teamwork to summit peaks. Mountaineering sometimes involves exposure to heights. You don’t need to be an all-star athlete to excel at mountaineering. Enthusiasm for learning outdoor skills and spending long days in the mountains are the most important things to bring to course.

Will I have my phone on course?

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This course is a totally phone-free adventure! Although some students are hesitant about this at first, many reflect on their experience as a well-needed break from screens and social media. No phones means more time to be present with nature and your crewmates too.

Can I get mail on course?

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Yes! You will have the opportunity to receive letters from friends and family during transfers, resupplies and at the end of the course. If you’re worried about getting homesick, letters are a great way to feel connected with your loved ones while you are away.

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