Photo of the Moment

2/10/12
 Every February, students get a break from their daily class schedule to pursue a special intellectual interest for an entire week. Since the early 70s, Interim has been one of the most popular parts of academic life at CRMS, as every member of the community is able to focus his or her energies on a single elective. Courses range from a service and mountaineering trips around the US and South America, to hands-on building and engineering projects on campus, to and extensive opportunities taking advantage of accelerated classes in the arts.
Above, students traveled to Ecuador and summited two of the highest peaks near Quito. 


1/10/2012
Today at All School Meeting, the directors of the 5Point Film Festival were back on the Colorado Rocky Mountain School campus to fill us in on the 2012 Dream Project, a scholarship program for high school students in the Roaring Fork Valley.  Last year, two of the three scholarships went to CRMS students.  JJ Woorley ('11) spent a few weeks in Costa Rica in a Spanish language immersion program, during which she taught English in an elementary school and helped coach a soccer program.  Weaver Froelicher ('13, pictured above, right) took his scholarship to Uganda, where he worked with a public health initiative focused on milaria research and prevention, as well as kayaked a section of the White Nile that has since been dammed and no longer contains white water.
Justin Clifton (above, left), 5Point's Executive Director, told CRMS students that this year there will be five scholarships available worth $1500, and encouraged our community to submit their most creative, wildest dreams to the contest.  For more information about the Dream Project and the 5Point Film Festival, visit www.5pointfilm.org.


1/6/2012
A new semester at Colorado Rocky Mountain School found us welcoming a few new students into the community!  From left to right: Alex, sophomore, from Lafayette, California; Gabe, sophomore, from Boulder, Colorado; and Libby, sophomore, from Bozeman, Montana.  We're thrilled to have such talented and dynamic students joining us from all across the country.  
As you might notice behind these three, there's not much snow on campus right now, and by the looks of their outerwear, not much need for big down jackets yet either.  The high desert here in Carbondale has been particular dry this winter.  Fortunately, Aspen has been getting just enough snow to keep all four mountains open and has been seeing the entire CRMS community on the slopes already this quarter.  Still... Think snow!


1/4/2012
We were welcomed back to campus for the start of second semester by a beautiful sunset over Carbondale!  The Colorado Rocky Mountain School campus borders two rivers: the Crystal, and the Roaring Fork.  Both are used by the CRMS kayak program and by fly fishing enthousiasts from around the world.  This shot was taken from the Holden House, which overlooks the Crystal.
So nice to have students and faculty back on campus again!  Could 2012 be CRMS's best year ever?  It just might.


12/14/2011
The first day of mid-term exams brought more than just essays and multiple-choice questions: it brought a few inches of fresh powder!
Although the warm afternoon sun melted the snow quicker than some of us would have liked, students still found time after their second exam for some stress-busting.
  And because mid-terms mean no trips to Aspen, why not bring the skiing to campus? A few students built a small kicker outside of the Holden House and managed to squeeze in some runs before dinner. Eli, freshman, took advantage of the opportunity to click-in.