Updates
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 10:32am
Last Friday, The Mountain Institute celebrated the longest day of the year with the installation of a solar panel system on the roof of our office building, the Earth Shelter. Within a matter of...
Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 7:09pm
This post is guest written by Lily Bailey, 17, a veteran summer camper and a student in last week's Mountain Trail Monitor summer trail maintenance program. Trees? Sawed. Branches? Lopped. Camping?...
Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 6:03pm
Our first log cut!
On June 5th, we finished our first week of Mountain Trail Monitors, our summer trail maintenance program. We had spent four nights in the Seneca Creek Backcountry, with...
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:09pm
Besides the Mountain Institute's Appalachian program based out of Circleville, WV, TMI also does service in the Andes and the Himalayas. For those curious about the projects going on in other parts...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 - 6:01pm
Patrick watches over the new piglets.
It's the end of our spring season at the Spruce Knob education center. Most of TMI staff were away this week in Maryland to do a program with Riverdale...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:44pm
What's the most you've ever done in a thirty hour period?
Students from Belle Elementary in a May snow flurry!
On Monday, May 12th, we had a visiting group of forty fifth grade students...
Sunday, May 12, 2013 - 11:44am
Sophie Roblin teaches hydrology.
Telling campfire stories.
Studying benthic macroinvertebraes.
Seeing the kids off, crawfish style.
Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 11:57am
April 2nd, 2013
Staff geared up for caving
This week up on Spruce stared with a cold snap of such bone-chilling levels it was only appropriate to have a staff Cave Training Day. The...
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 9:13am
Andrew Taber, The Mountain Institute's Executive Director, discusses working to alleviate climate change and poverty internationally throughout mountain regions.http://www.moppenheim.tv/insight-...
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 7:56pm
“Well how the heck did they build this place, anyways?”
It was mid-April, and the Ulan Bator yurt was still decked in white. The spring Wilderness First Aid class, led by Beth Boehme, waded...
