Middlebury Mountain Club

Join the Middlebury Mountain Club at their weekly meeting! At the meetings we deliver trip announcements, plan events, and discuss outdoor and environmentally related issues. Feel free to bring your dinner and friends! All are welcome, regardless of previous outdoor experience.

Join the Middlebury Mountain Club at their weekly meeting! At the meetings we deliver trip announcements, plan events, and discuss outdoor and environmentally related issues. Feel free to bring your dinner and friends! All are welcome, regardless of previous outdoor experience.

Join the Middlebury Mountain Club at their weekly meeting! At the meetings we deliver trip announcements, plan events, and discuss outdoor and environmentally related issues. Feel free to bring your dinner and friends! All are welcome, regardless of previous outdoor experience.

Join us for a fun, fall-themed event at Brooker where you can participate in various activities involving pumpkins including pumpkin decorating, carving, and tumbling. Yummy food will be provided. Feel free to bring family and friends or just yourself!

Join us for a taste of one of the best outdoor film festivals out there—Mountainfilm. Each year the MountainFilm festival takes place in Telluride, CO, packed with all kinds of wacky, beautiful, and jaw-dropping outdoorsy films. We are extremely lucky to have MountainFilm returning again this fall for a night of its best short films at Middlebury! In past years we’ve had a great showing of Middlebury students and members of the community to fill Dana! Make sure not to miss this epic evening full of climbing, surfing, skiing, slack lining, and more!

Join the MMC on Friday the 23rd for its 2nd annual Broomball Tournament! Broomball is almost exactly like hockey, except you play in snow boots rather than skates, and with brooms rather than sticks. It is considered the second national sport of Canada!
Sign up in teams of six at go/broomball, and then show up to Kenyon Arena (the hockey rink) at 12:00 pm with your team. We will provide all necessary equipment - just bring your inner Wayne Gretzky. Rumor has it there will be prizes for the top three teams…

Do you want to learn how to become a guide for the Middlebury Mountain Club? There will be an hour-long information session on Wednesday, December 6th at 4:30 p.m. in Axinn 219 that will cover our three-step guide training process. Becoming a guide for the MMC allows you to plan and operate your own trips for FREE. It is a fantastic way to meet new people, gain leadership experience, learn outdoor technical skills, and get out into nature. Anyone and everyone can start the guideship process, regardless of previous outdoor experience.

Can we ski that? Answering this deceivingly simple question is an exploration in the science of snow and the psychology of high-stakes decision making, the ethics of informed consent, and a structured approach to risk management that tries to put it all together. With snow and avalanches there always seems to be more questions — so please bring yours! Ilya Storm is an ACMG Ski Guide and forecaster with Avalanche Canada.

Join Middlebury Mountain Club on the lawn outside FIC for a fun outdoor event! Here you’ll be able to meet students with similar outdoor interests . We will have pizza and drinks on a first-come, first-serve basis. We look forward to seeing you there!

Always wanted to lead your fellow peers on a hike during a beautiful, wintry sunny day? Felt like you are a winter hiking leader but need a few more skills? Want to learn how to forage for mushrooms? We will teach you two of those three things. You can guess which ones. 
The training includes one outside day session Sunday 11/8 (~1pm-~4pm), one indoor training Thursday 11/12 from 6:15pm-8:15pm, and an overnight camping trip the weekend Sat 11/14-Sun 11/15. After this, you will be able to take peers on winter trips with the MMC.