Gail Spinden is a long-time Colorado native, former Rocky Mountain National Park ranger, and gifted instructor of 3rd grade at Mountain Sage Community School in Fort Collins. But you can also find her at Shadowcliff this month for Session 1 of Critters, Creeks & Crows, happening June 25-28!

Each season, Shadowcliff welcomes a team of rotating staff members from all over the world to help us maintain our campus and serve our guests. If you’ve enjoyed a stay at Shadowcliff, it’s guaranteed that our rotating staff had something to do with it!  

It’s official: Shadowcliff Volunteer Weekend 2015 was a success! Not only did we get a lot of work accomplished, but we also welcomed many new volunteers who were experiencing Shadowcliff for the very first time! We are so thrilled to expand our community with so many giving people of all ages! With 56 volunteers plus staff, we logged

by Jay Liebenguth   A Wild Mind training is coming to Shadowcliff this Summer. Based on Bill Plotkin’s newest book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche,  this 5-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

After a thorough and extensive search for our new management team, I am pleased to announce Karen Bellina as the General Manager and Will Peak as the Assistant Manager. Together they bring a wonderful combination of experience across many sectors, including a shared passion of being in and having reverence for nature. Karen is new

Shadowcliff director Hillary Mizia was recently published in Rocky Mountain Parent Magazine, discussing the values of unstructured or “wild” spaces and play time for kids. You can read the full article online here, or if you’re in the Front Range area, you can pick up a free copy of Rocky Mountain Parent for yourself!