Telluride Mountain School

Outdoor learning adventures ‘create relationships for the rest of the year’ By Amy M. Peters Telluride Daily Planet Contributor Telluride Mountain School (TMS) completed its 26...

Last week, with the help of current parent/board member Will Downing, TMS alumni Harry Kearney ‘11, and gear and flies from Telluride Outside, all of the lower school students at ...

TMS teachers started off the school year with a High Camp retreat. In addition to the usual camaraderie of games, meals, and hikes, the staff did a deep dive with student counselo...

On the sunny morning of May 7th, the third and fourth-grade class ventured south to see what they would learn about the New Mexican desert and one of America’s most famous female ...

This year, the 7/8 grade trip to Hawaii was full of science, adventure, connections, and good fun. Throughout the trip, students were both individually and collectively curious, e...

Telluride Mountain School's High School traveled to Cuba this spring as a part of the school's experiential learning program, spending a week in Havana and another week traveling ...

This year, the fifth and sixth graders embarked on a new adventure for their spring experiential education trip. The class flew to Boston, MA, to spend a week in the city and near...

This fall, Claire Eastham joined Telluride Mountain School as the first full-time, in-house school counselor. Most recently, at Kent Denver School, Claire has over a decade of exp...

This fall, the fifth and sixth graders traveled to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve to explore the geological wonders of massive dunes that began forming thousands ...

The entire high school group tuned their mountain bikes for gear check the Friday before our outdoor education trip to the Kokopelli trail. Monday morning, students arrived early ...

The adventure began with an exciting field trip to the Bachelor Syracuse Mine in Ouray, CO. As students ventured nearly a third of a mile into the dark, damp mine shaft, the reali...

(Volunteers from Fort Lewis College Village Aid Project in Jalapa, Nicaragua, last month, working with a villager on a household water delivery system. George “Hamo” Thorneycroft,...

This spring's experiential education trip to Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany provided historical and cultural context specific to the three countries visited and the world...

This spring, while it was still snowy in Telluride, the third and fourth-grade class left to explore the wonders and wildlife of the Moab desert region. This destination afforded ...

This spring, the seventh and eighth-grade class embarked on a two week trip to the South with Todd Smith, Ross Perrot, Jesse McTigue, Lizzie Edwards, and Kelsey Brax to immerse th...

This spring, the fifth and sixth-graders embarked on an epic road trip throughout the four corners region of the Southwest. Students explored the ancestral roots of the land we in...

The short arms of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, plates on the back of the Stegosaurus, and feathers on the Velociraptor. How did the students know all this? The first and second-grade cl...

Keaton McCargo (Graduated 2013) Freestyle Skiing Olympian (2018) Where did you go to college, and what did you study? I went to CU Boulder and studied Environmen...

We are pleased to announce the newest members of the TMS Board of Trustees; Flint Ogle, Kelli Scoville, and Winston Kelly, all of whom are current TMS parents. Flint Ogle...

Last weekend, Telluride Mountain School (TMS) students participated in a three-day introductory course on the mechanics of avalanches — studying where they occur and how to avoid ...