Bold Earth Colorado

About Bold Earth Colorado

Bold Earth offers Colorado Bold for 9th to 11th grade students and Colorado Discovery for 7th to 9th grade students.

Explore Colorado’s wild heart on an adventure packed with hiking, rock climbing, rappelling, and whitewater rafting. Summit alpine peaks, clip into a cabled via ferrata route to scale ledges and scramble up cliffs, and navigate the Arkansas River through Browns Canyon on whitewater rafts. Camp and volunteer with a local nonprofit organization, Mission:Wolf, learning about these apex predators and the need to protect them.

You’ll enjoy hikes with sweeping mountain views, cascading waterfalls, and some of the area’s most beautiful alpine lakes surrounded by aspen and lodgepole pine. Keep your eyes peeled as you walk these trails, not only for wildflowers in bloom, but also the animals! Moose, elk, big horned sheep, and other Rocky Mountain National Park locals are often sighted along these trails.

We’ll explore the Rockies by climbing up the mountains themselves! We will spend the day climbing using the Italian inspired climbing style for a different view of these beautiful mountains. Via ferrata, meaning Iron Climbing Path in Italian, was created as a different way to move through the mountains using iron rungs and cable lines. Students will have the chance to climb, zipline, and traverse through the Rockies to experience long-range views and vistas of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Rise and shine, it’s summit day! With an early start to beat the afternoon storms, you’ll climb above tree line into the heart of the Rockies. Feel the air thin and the views expand as you reach your high point, surrounded by sweeping peaks and endless blue sky.

The great Collegiate Peaks the renowned Browns Canyon on the Arkansas River offers another day of adventure. Browns Canyon offers the perfect mix of calm stretches (did someone say splash wars?) and exciting rapids—hold on tight for Zume Flume and Big Drop! You may see a few golden eagles and peregrine falcons as you gaze up toward the 14,000-foot-high mountains.