Are you ready to become a CMC Volunteer Trip Leader?? Pick the trips you want to lead, the time you want to lead them, share the experience with others, make new friends, and help promote fun and safe enjoyment of the Colorado Outdoors. What could be better?
Trip Leader School INFO
Below is a list of the Denver Group Mentor Leaders. They are an amazing resource to help you in your Trip Leading Journey. Contact any of the following mentors to help get you set up with your Leader in Training Hike/Activity:
The Denver Group Leadership Scholarship is a program to invest in our Denver Group volunteer trip leaders, school directors, and senior school instructors Our volunteers share their time, expertise, and passion with our members. The Denver Group Leadership Scholarship supports their efforts by providing scholarships for trainings that further their education and skill development.
This form is to be completed by the instructor leader of the LIT trip once the trip is complete. Thank you for leading the trip with the LIT student!
This application is for those seeking to become a mentor leader for leader in training hikes with the Colorado Mountain Club. Mentor leaders work with students who have finished Trip Leader School to help them complete their Leader-in-Training (LIT) trip.
Find out how to become a Technical Trip Leader Mentor with the Denver Group.
The LIT trip is to be planned and completed once you have completed Trip Leader School (TLS includes the online content and the scenarios session). The LIT trip must not be associated with a CMC class/school, it must be a trip open for anyone in the club to join (not exclusive-with the idea of practicing managing different group dynamics), and the trip must have a minimum of four participants on the roster.
Mentor Leaders use this to understand the LIT process for your mentee Trip Leader.
Mentor Leaders (f/k/a Instructor Leaders) are active experienced trip leaders who volunteer to schedule and assess Trip Leader School students in their LIT (Leader in Training) hike or trip, as well provide advice and counseling as they start to lead CMC trips. They are a crucial part of Trip Leader School and a key to increasing the quantity and quality of new trip leaders for the CMC. Following multiple recent discussions within the CMC, the title of this role was changed from Instructor Leader to Mentor Leader, since the title “Mentor Leader” better suits an expanded role of the experienced trip leader with the aspiring new trip leader – as in Mentor and Protégé – rather than just a one-time trip to assess their trip leadership skills.
For trip leaders looking to lead biking trips, please be aware of these guidelines
The recommendation for Denver Group Trip Leaders as of February 2023 is to use the mileage reimbursement rate from the following table, based on the price of gasoline at the time of the trip:
