colorado mountain college

I've been looking into it as well, does anyone know about their skiing business program in Steamboat?

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Aight well truthfully i plan on having a job/life in the ski industry, not exactly where or how.... But truthfully i just dont know if colorado mountain college has strong enough programs. Soo I plan on going to buisness school elsewhere and then who know in maybe 4 years later hit up colorado mountain college. I think you would be better off getting a buisness degree on your own first and then take additional cources at CMC!!

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see i'm doing the opposite, getting classes done at cmc, then getting my business degree. Gotta get the skiing in first before i get old.

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i live in colorado. how cool am i??? sooo cool. i say do CU. really good school, and if you drive crazy like me you can get from boulder to the resorts in about 1 hr 15 mins.

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well, I know my situation is a bit different, I'm 25 (previously dropped out) and looking to go back to school, not really wanting to focus another 4 years towards a degree (I would be more than happy with taking a couple extra classes and getting a cert and Associates of Arts). I have already worked in the ski industry for 10 years (winters) and high-tech for 6, so I basically am looking to find a good ski-related program where I can pull off an Associates as well (I want out of high-tech) and get some good skiing in and be able to survive bartending and/or teaching skiing (or contracting if I have to if there is any high-tech industry in the area).

Basically, I wanna know what the program is all about, I've already done the party school thing, and not looking to do it again (per se - not wanting to go to a full 4 year year degree program, unless its ski realted). I was under the impression that CMC was a fairly good ski-industries program.

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im going to CMC in Glenwood this fall....Anyone else going there this fall, give me a holler on msn at yetigonecrazy@hotmail.com, i need people to talk skiing and go skiing with..

 
You see, Benditto's icon is actually a picture of him I took. That is the type of person attending CMC. But I may also go there.

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I went to CMC it's pretty sweet. I skied everyday and was able to take classes. The classes are pretty legit they transfer over pretty well except for the specific ski business classes. The town is ok it gets way better during the winter obviously

 
i'm considering this place, it sounds good so far

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well, I know the campuses depend on what program you take. And doesn't CMC's courses carry directly into any state run college/university in CO as well (with the exception of maybe the ski specific, as mentioned above)?

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^the town of glenwood sucks incredible hairy monkey balls. trust me i lived there for 15 years. as for cmc, most of the courses that carry over are core curriculum courses (basic chemistry, sociology, shit like that), but i don't know about higher level stuff. i took some math classes there my senior year and they transferred over very nicely to CSU, but most people just use cmc as a starting point before they get their degree at a university

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well, are there any other Ski industry programs that people know of, I know UMaine Farmington used to offer them, but I would be looking for something west of the Mississippi.

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Michigan state university has some too..It's not directly related to skiing industry, but they got something like hospitality managemnt or resort management

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Alright, I'll clarify some things here since I'm very very familiar with all these towns and I will also be attending the Glenwood campus this fall (read above a few posts.) I busted out the brochuere when I saw the posts and no one was really clarifying much. So here it is. Only the Leadville, Steamboat, and Glenwood Springs campuses have housing. The rest are like a true community college setup, just a regional classroom setting.

The Leadville campus is like half and hour to an hour away from Copper Mountain. They offer 'Ski Area Operations' there, which is lift maintence, trail maintnence, etc. The problem with Leadville is that its a fairly ghetto town with zero activity, any time of day. If you have no life beyond skiing, it's the place to go. Go to class, ski at copper, and go to bed. Thats Leadville.

The Steamboat Springs campus offers 'Ski & Snowboard Business', which is the industry of making ski and snowboard products and apparel. This is the fashion and gear side of skiing. It also offers 'Resort Management', which covers the hotel and restaurant parts of the industry. The good thing about Steamboat is that it has a world class resort literally in town, and there is a nightlife. Go here if you want to work for designing shit and want to party somewhat.

The Spring Valley campus sits roughly 5 miles southeast of Glenwood Springs. They don't offer any resort type of study, but they offer a large program called 'Wilderness Studies', in which there are several emphasises related to skiing, like Avalanche Control and Rescue, Ski Patrol, and Backcountry Guiding, among others. This is where you should go if you want to actually ski for a living. The part that makes Spring Valley good is that there is 4 world class mountains minutes down the road. Snowmass is 20 minutes away, and Buttermilk, Aspen Highlands, and Aspen Mountain are all 30 minutes away. Plus, the whole valley is getting to be one long town and there is a happenin' night life. And the rest can be summed up in two words: X GAMES. On your back porch almost.

Spring Valley is by far the best for straight up skiers, but it depends on what your interest is.

Hope that clarifies everything up.

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^snowmass, aspen and buttermilk are all more than 30 minutes away from glenwood. 45 on a good day, and don't forget about traffic on the road that was still two lanes last time i checked. and it's funny that the brochure didn't even mention sunlight, which is truly 10 minutes from glenwood, and had the steepest run in colorado until silverton opened up. and whoever says glenwood has any nightlife at all has obviously never been there. there is absolutely shit to do in that town, and there are more cops than any other town i've ever been to. aspen has decent nightlife - if you're rolling in dollars. but no one going to cmc can afford to party hard in aspen. just don't go to glenwood it was all i could do to escape that shithole

-Strode

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Strode- Yeah but theres a couple problem with your story. One, it is longer from Glenwood Springs, but the campus isnt directly in Glenwood, its a fair distance south of there. And if you were trying to party in Glenwood then youre kind of dumb, cuz the parties are in Carbondale. And Sunlight?? What the fuck man...would i rather ski at Sunlight with like 1200 vert and what is it, 1000 acres and one double diamond? or would i ski Snowmass, which was both 4000+ vert and acreage. Or maybe Buttermilk, which has the worlds largest terrain park.....?

And Sac- God created WSC for everyone except Gunny locals. Im sorry, but unlike you, I need to get the hell out.

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dude don't argue with me about the place i grew up okay?? first of all, yes the exit for the campus is 5 minutes south of glenwood. but the road TO the campus is more than five minutes from the highway, so the campus is really farther away from the town.

and the parties are in carbondale???????????!?!?!?!?!

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BAAAAHAHHHHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

when i say glenwood is a shit town it is NOTHING compared to carbondale. carbondale has 3000 people total, most of which are immigrant illegal mexicans. there's actually ''gangs'' that pull guns in carbondale too. glenwood at least has a couple of bars. carbondale has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. oh wait they have a 7-11 my bad. schwag costs $35 a QUARTER.

anyway dude i just want you to make sure you get real information, not just some BS from some brochure. i'm not trying to get angry or anything, it's just the only reason i went to a big university right out of high school was to get the fuck out of the roaring fork valley.

and you're right sunlight is nowhere near the mountain snowmass is. sunlight is twice the mountain buttermilk is if you take away the park (and i heard buttermilk's park wasn't near the caliber it was last year anyway). i wasn't saying it was a better mountain than the aspen ski co's though, all i was trying to say was that it was funny that a brochure about glenwood didn't even mention sunlight.

anyway, i'm just correcting your brochure, if you have any more questions on how things REALLY are there you should just ask me

-Strode

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sunlight sucks ass, i used to go there every christmas cuse my uncle lived there. Its a poorly maitained mountain but there are some good runs, but the place is pretty dead. there is some stuff happening in town every once and a awhile.yeah i knew some people in carbondale and just about every1 who lives there are gansta mexicans.

 
i was just at CU boulder this weekend and it seems to be a nice school, and my sister likes it. drive to breck is bout an hour and a half. but id say dont base your education on goin skiing. you shouldnt be payn college tuition so u have a reason to ski in CO. just ski bum for a year and get it out of your system first.

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like i said, remove the park and sunlight destroys buttermilk. buttermilk might as well just close their whole mountain and just make it a park. they have like two single blacks. buttermilk was a pussy mountain before i even knew what the word pussy meant.

-Strode

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it is 45 min to about an hour from glenwood to aspen mtn. i drive through there about 5 times a year atleast.

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Im thinking about going to CMC. Not really sure what i want to do, but i figure i would get classes out of the way there and ski while i was still young. also, they have a graphic desoign program. might look into that. it would be good to take that and then to take somthing to continue with that somewhere else. or maybe buisness, idk. or maybe i will jsut get my general ed out of the way there and go to a school that specializes in industreal design

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i went to school there to get my core credits out of the way, see me ski is what the school is also known as. I went to the vail campus and it was sweet, the lift was literally like 100 feet from school. they also offer 4 hour long classes, so you can time it so you only have school like 2 or 3 days a week. Great place to go for cheap core credits before you transfer to a bigger school.

 
i was registered and everything for steamboat this fall... but last minute i decided i would rather do somthing else then a degree with skiing, instead i go to NMU (MI) and am a digital cinema major.

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yes my mom went there, its not a great college but definetley good for skiing. C-Butte is 15 minutes away, and u can just hitch hike.

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^ no idea what he's talking about. But going to school in the mountains is lame as shit. You'll see how much it sucks once you waste a year or two there. Nothing ever happens after dark, no fucking girls, too many hippes, no stores are open past 8. it fucking sucks

 
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I've been taking classes at CMC's Summit campuses for 1.5 years now. The academics suck ass. CMC is not a core school. However, *certain* classes will transfer over under the state guarantee transfer program (hint, the real ones, not yoga, life electrician II, and EMT-B will not).

Some instructors are quality others aren't. Certain programs rule (Summit campus EMT program and sciences, Vail/Edwards Paramedic, Leadville's OLS).

However you can get a bunch of degrees that won't really mean jack in the ski industry. If you are going for certificates like for lift technician certs, yea. Ski area ops they are just as likely to promote an experienced person from within than you with your 1 year certificate or AA degree.

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