For three nights and four days, students backpacked 24 miles through Grand Gulch and the side canyons in Cedar Mesa, Utah. For the majority of the hike, they bushed-whacked through a sandy wash and navigated a meandering gulch that was often blocked by large downed trees and shrubs from previous flash flooding. Towering sandstone wallsRead more
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This fall, the 7th-grade students descended the Sundance Trail into Dark Canyon for a week-long backpacking trip. Dark Canyon is a primitive area in southeast Utah marked by steep canyon walls and a winding stream that feeds the Colorado River. It is one of Utah’s most beautiful and least visited canyon systems, and this wasRead more
Kelsey Brax visited Galapagos for research, presented workshop in Hawaii By Amy M. Peters, Planet Contributor Telluride Mountain School (TMS) upper school math teacher Kelsey Brax traveled to the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Thursday to present during a three-day national social justice conference, where STEM educators from across the United States are exploringRead more
In early October, the 17 students of the 3rd and 4th grade class from Telluride Mountain School camped for two nights and three days at the beautiful Woods Lake Campground. Nestled between the Lizard Head Wilderness and Little Cone laccolith, the Woods Lake State Wildlife Area offers hiking, fishing, and other lakefront activities. On WilsonRead more
For the first and second-grade Outdoor Education trip, the students started their week exploring the Telluride Historical Museum and then touring a few of Telluride’s historical places. On the first day of the trip, the class became “miners,” when they visited the Bachelor-Syracuse Mine in Ouray, CO. Students ventured 1,500 feet inside an actual mine,Read more
Local student patents invention Telluride Mountain School’s Genius Hour fosters creative ideas The definition of the word “genius” is “exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability,” which is exactly what the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) aims to foster during its Genius Hour, a creative science block built into the school schedule for studentsRead more
A group of fifth- and sixth-grade students from the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) received unanimous approval two years ago from the Telluride Open Space Commission to construct and place five nesting-boxes across the Valley Floor to collect data about the American kestrel, a long-tailed falcon whose population has been steadily declining since the 1960s. TMSRead more
Growing up in Telluride and attending the Telluride Mountain School, Tucker Hensen knew that he loved science and adventure. Yet, he never imagined that he’d be able to combine those passions and work towards the greatest adventure of our time: to take humans to Mars and beyond. At SpaceX, where he works as a materialsRead more
