Photo Albums
To find out what Cottonwood Institute courses are really like, check out the following photo albums. To view these photos, you will need to sign in to the Kodak Gallery. If you do not already have a Kodak account, it is free and easy to sign up!
Wildland Firefighter Project - We have teamed up with Colorado Firecamp in Salida, Colorado to practice wildland firefighter techniques, fire behavior, fire mitigation techniques, as well as essential camping and wilderness survival skills.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Wildland Firefighter Project, Click Here.
Stone Age Survival Project - We collaborated with Earth Knack in Crestone, Colorado to learn about essential camping and wilderness survival skills, Stone Age survival skills, and complete environmental service projects, including: composting, organic gardening, and green building and construction methods.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Stone Age Survival Project, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the 2006 Stone Age Survival Project, Click Here.
Horse Caretaker Project - We collaborated with the Denver Zoo and Mountain Mammas Trails and Training to learn essential camping and wilderness survival skills, horse back riding techniques, and complete much needed horse caretaking projects, including horse washing, bridal cleaning, and habitat projects at Gold Lake outside of Ward, Colorado.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Horse Caretaker Project, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the 2006 Horse Caretaker Project, Click Here.
Endangered Wolves and Animal Tracking - We collaborated with Mission: Wolf to learn essential camping and wilderness survival skills, animal tracking, wolf ecology, and completed much needed wolf caretaking projects, including feeding the wolves and habitat restoration projects.
- To view pictures from the 2009 Colorado Academy Endangered Wolves course, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Denver Zoo Endangered Wolves course, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Endangered Wolves and Animal Tracking course, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the 2005 Endangered Wolves and Animal Tracking course, Click Here.
Community Adventure Program (CAP) - We collaborate with New Vista High School in Boulder, Colorado, P.S.1 Charter School in Denver, CO, and Manual High School in Denver, CO to teach students essential camping and wilderness survival skills and teach them how to change the world by facilitating a student-directed Action Project to tackle water and storm drain pollution issues.
- To view pictures from the 4th quarter 2009 New Vista CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from 3rd quarter 2009 New Vista CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from 2nd quarter 2008 New Vista CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from 2nd quarter 2008 P.S.1 CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from 1st semester 2008 Manual CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from 1st quarter 2008 New Vista CAP class, Click Here.
- To view pictures from the spring 2008 New Vista CAP class, Click Here.
Design Your Own Course - We have collaborated with Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado to pilot two new courses: Physiology of Survival and Winter Survival. We worked with Mr. Brown’s Outdoor Class and Mrs. Bogar’s Biology class to provide real world context to textbook concepts and the courses were a big hit!
- To view pictures of the 2009 Avalanche Science Course, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the 2009 Winter Survival Course, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the 2008 Physiology of Survival course, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the 2008 Winter Survival course, Click Here.
Survival Workshops for Adults - In 2009 we began offering a series of 1-2 day survival workshops for adults focusing on winter survival, survival shelters, survival fires, and a survival overnight to simulate a real survival situation.
- To view pictures of the June 20-21, 2009 Essential Survival Skills Overnight, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the June 6-7, 2009 Essential Survival Skills Overnight, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the March 2009 Winter Survival Workshop, Click Here.
- To view pictures of the January 2009 Winter Survival Workshop, Click Here.
Mt. Evans Volunteer Project - Each year we partner with Colorado Fourteeners Initiative to complete an “Adopt-A-Peak Project” to help protect and preserve Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks. It is our little way of walking our talking and giving back to the mountains we love and use.
- To view pictures from the 2008 Mt. Evans Volunteer Project, Click Here.
2009 Base Camp Bash - To view a slide show from our annual fundraising event called the Base Camp Bash, Click Here.
