The CRMS community takes three main trips each school year, beginning with Wilderness , a ten-day backpacking and service trip into the Colorado Rockies. All new students begin their year with Wilderness. Next is Fall Trip, a three-day respite from the busy beginning of the school year. In the spring, the whole school takes off again for a week, often travelling to the Utah desert and canyon country to feel the warmth after a long Colorado winter. This three-day trip in the beginning of October brings the entire faculty and student body together to celebrate fall in the Rockies.
Most trips ascend the drainages, peaks and passes near campus.
Others raft or kayak on the Colorado River, climb crags in southern Colorado, or run the trails and the slick rock of Canyonlands National Park. Fifteen trips go out, and students return with a fresh perspective on their environment, the school and themselves. Trips are led by faculty member, and the trips vary in difficulty.