- Colorado Mountain Club
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The Colorado Mountain Club (CMC), formed in 1912,[1] is a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) outdoor education organization based in Golden, Colorado that gathers and disseminates information regarding Colorado's mountains in the areas of art, science, literature and recreation. The club advocates for the preservation of the alpine regions, and was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park.[2] The CMC has its own press with over 30 published titles, and has continuously published Trail & Timberline magazine since 1918.Now there is even a camp for kids.
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History
From 25 charter members in 1912, the club rapidly grew to 200 members barely a year later, when the CMC became a nonprofit corporation. Charter members included such notable historic figures as Enos Mills, Roger Toll, and Carl Blaurock.[3]
In 1974, the club purchased its first permanent home in Denver, Colorado. In 1993, the CMC partnered with the American Alpine Club to found the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, Colorado[4]. The building houses the largest mountaineering library in the world, as well as a state-of-the-art museum, which opened in February, 2008, and is named for famed mountaineer Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr.
Fourteeners
The CMC is the official repository for summit registers on Colorado's popular fourteeners. It also maintains the comprehensive list of each person who has climbed all 54 of these high peaks.
Notable club members throughout history
- Carl Blaurock, one of a pair to first climb all of Colorado's fourteeners[5]
- Mary Cronin, first woman to climb all of Colorado's fourteeners[6]
- Albert Russell Ellingwood, pioneering Colorado mountaineer[7]
- Dick Lamm, former Governor of Colorado
- Enos Mills, whose efforts were influential in establishing Rocky Mountain National Park
- James Grafton Rogers, Denver lawyer and outdoorsman who drafted legislation to create Rocky Mountain National Park
- Roger Toll, who held the positions of superintendent at Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, and Mount Rainier National Parks
References
- ^ Charles Ernest Fay, et al., A Century of American Alpinism, (The American Alpine Club, 2002)]
- ^ National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Administrative History, Chapter II, Enos Mills And The Creation Of The Park, http://www.nps.gov/archive/romo/resources/history/adhi/adhi2.htm]
- ^ Hugh E. Kingery, The Colorado Mountain Club: The First Seventy-Five Years of a Highly Individual Corporation, 1912 - 1987,(Cordillera Press, 1988) ISBN 0-917895-25-8]
- ^ Cameron Burns, Colorado Climbs Upward With Group's Relocation Famed Mountaineering Club Is Leaving New York City And Bringing Huge Library, (The Denver Post, December 12, 1992), http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DBC320842C66&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]
- ^ Barbara Euser, A Climber's Climber: On the Trail With Carl Blaurock, (Cordillera Press, 1984) ISBN 0917895010]
- ^ Hugh E. Kingery, The Colorado Mountain Club: The First Seventy-Five Years of a Highly Individual Corporation, 1912 - 1987,(Cordillera Press, 1988) ISBN 0-917895-25-8]
- ^ Jeff Achey, Dudley Chelton, Bob Godfrey, Climb!: The History of Rock Climbing in Colorado, (The Mountaineers Books, 2002) ISBN 0898868769]
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- Hiking organizations
- Organizations established in 1912
- Outdoor education
- Educational organizations based in the United States
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