Mark your calendars for several events coming up, from film festival world tours to a CMC open house complete with live music and free happy hour to epic trail running races!
 Banff Mountain 
Film Festival
Tickets  are now on sale for the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour!  Hosted by REI, the showings will be at the Paramount Theatre on March  3-4, 2011. Tickets are $15 and proceeds benefit the CMC. A unique  selection of films will be shown each of the two evenings. Tickets are  available at REI locations, at the CMC office, or  online. If you’d like to volunteer one or both nights, please email  juliebethpelletier@cmc.org.
Mountain Fest 2011 
Get your adventure on at the 9th annual  Mountain Fest.   The Fest, billed as CMC’s annual “Open  House,” begins at 1 p.m.  Saturday, March 19, 2011 at the American  Mountaineer Center in Golden.   Whether you’re an experienced  mountaineer, ready to climb your first  14er, or new to the Rockies,  Mountain Fest will help prepare you to  enjoy Colorado’s great outdoors. 
Mountain Fest will feature a climbing competition, membership discounts, skills clinics from our popular outdoor schools, free happy hour from Upslope and live music from Racecar Spelled Backwards. Bring family, friends, or yourself to this fun and free event!
Mountain Fest will feature a climbing competition, membership discounts, skills clinics from our popular outdoor schools, free happy hour from Upslope and live music from Racecar Spelled Backwards. Bring family, friends, or yourself to this fun and free event!
Golden Gate Dirty Thirty 
Registration is Open! 
Registration  is now open for the Golden Gate Dirty Thirty! This year's 7-mile,  12-mile, and 50k trail races will be held on Saturday, June 4th, in  Golden Gate State Park. Proceeds benefit the CMC's Youth Education  Program. The event is expected to fill up very soon! Register at  goldengatedirtythirty.org. We will need many volunteers for this event. Please email Brenda at  brendaporter@cmc.org to volunteer.

 