Colorado Mountain Club. The Colorado Mountain Club has about 7500 members in groups throughout the state. The largest is the Denver Group with about 4600 members. There are also the Denver Wilderness Kids Group for families with pre-teenagers and the Denver Juniors for teenagers. Other Groups are in Aspen, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Glenwood Springs, Durango, Estes Park, Grand Junction, Longmont, Pueblo, and a new group in Crested Butte-Gunnison.

The club had over 2000 scheduled trips in 1986, with a wide range of activities. They ranged from easy to strenuous one-day hikes and climbs to multi-day outings, mostly in Colorado, including a two-week in-state outing. Winter trips included cross-country and downhill skiing, snowshoe trips, and ice-skating.

Out-of-state trips included outings to Alaska, Arizona, California, Washington, and Wyoming. International trips featured bicycle trips to Ireland and Corsica-Sardinia-Italy, a canoeing trip to Canada, a climbing trip to Mexico, and a hiking-climbing trip to the Swiss and Austrian Alps.

The C.M.C. has been instrumental with volunteer trail crews, working with the Forest Service, in the construction of The Colorado Trail, some 350 miles long, from Denver to Durango. We expect to complete this in 1987.

Our Conservation Committee continues efforts to cooperate with the Forest Service in long-range planning, and to monitor logging and mining activities in the mountain areas, as well as water projects.

Albert Ossinger, President