Connect For Adventure! When you join the Colorado Mountain Club, you benefit through:

• TRIPS: FREE access to over 3,000 separate mountain adventures annually, ranging from easy day hikes and snowshoe trips, to peak climbs, cross-country, and downhill ski trips, to long day walks. Carpooling is encouraged to keep travel costs down.
  
• SCHOOLS: Access to back-country classes and seminars offered by various CMC groups. Training in mountaineering, backpacking, and cross-country skiing are examples of the skills members can gain by taking group-sponsored schools.
  
• SOCIAL: Opportunity to socialize with 7500 like-minded Coloradans interested in outdoor, non-motorized recreation.
  
• HUTS: Access to CMC-maintained back country huts. Hosted and maintained by the Boulder and Shining Mountain Groups, two huts are available for member use on a reservation basis, one on a first-come, first-served basis.
  
• PUBLICATIONS: Free membership magazine,. The Trail & Timberline, CMC's hallmark news and information magazine, is published bimonthly. The Activity Schedule is published bi-annually. (Both also appear online on the CMC website.) For a low subscription fee, you can receive special interest newsletters covering high altitude mountaineering and rock climbing. Some groups publish a Group newsletter.
  
• LIBRARY: FREE use of the largest alpine library in North America . You can search the library catalogue online and have books mailed to you, wherever you reside. The library's staff will assist you with research about your next adventure, including route information
  
• BOOKS: Discounts on all CMC Press books. Our growing collection of publications includes guide books for Colorado and beyond, conservation texts, and children's books.
  
• INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Travel to favorite foreign destinations through our Adventure Travel program. CMC-sponsored world-wide trips are generally priced far below those offered by commercial, for-profit outfitters.
  
• ADULT EDUCATION: Access to Adult Education courses with fellow members. Arranged by CMC's Education Director, classes are offered both in Golden at the American Mountaineering Center and in remote locations around the state and nation. The 2004 offerings included a wild plant school, a writer's workshop, a painting retreat, naturalist field training, and two, week-long sessions in Alaska on Alaska ecology.
  
• PROGRAMS: Discount rates for special events at the American Mountaineering Center Events include film festivals, member photography shows, book festivals, adventure speakers, and much more.