BCM is the country’s leading volunteer organization devoted to providing significant mentoring during wilderness trips for urban teens participating in existing youth development programs. BCM was created to offer under resourced teenagers participating in existing youth development programs a dramatic learning experience. The BCM program is an eight-day trip, the focus of which is a five-day backcountry backpacking or canoeing experience during which 5 teens are matched with 5 volunteer adult role models. While immersed in a pristine wilderness in the company of caring adults, the teens progress along an emotional journey that leaves many transformed and with a greater sense of self. Visit Big City Mountaineers >

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Big City Mountaineers
05/17/2013
Become a member of The Clymb and they will donate $3.50 to BCM for each new membership. Get great deals on many outdoor brands that support our students!
Big City Mountaineers
05/16/2013
We're thrilled to be working with RMI Expeditions again this year for our Mt. Rainier Summit for Someone climbs. They just kicked off the season with a successful summit. Find out more about our Rainier climbs at http://www.summitforsomeone.org/climbs.
CDT Montana
05/16/2013
A standing ovation for Mark, please, and all the Backcountry Horsemen volunteers we work with on the trails!
Big City Mountaineers
05/15/2013
Been dreaming about climbing Mt. Rainier or Grand Teton with Summit for Someone? Sign up for your climb now and you'll be doing your dreaming in a Kelty Light Year sleeping bag. www.summitforsomeone.org
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Big City Mountaineers and Backpacker Magazine Launch Biggest Mountaineering Fundraiser Ever Staged on US Soil
04/9/2013
(Golden, Colo.) – Big City Mountaineers (BCM), the leading non-profit that instills critical life skills in under-resourced urban youth through wilderness mentoring expeditions, will raise over $250,000 from a series of Mt. Whitney Summit for Someone (SFS) fundraising climbs April 16-29.

In the August issue of Backpacker
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Great feature on BCM in the summer issue of Women's Adventure Magazine.

 

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