Higher education also means high adventure for Colorado Mountain College students. Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs is one of the college’s 11 locations. Its high ropes course is one reason why CMC was named Elevation Outdoors magazine’s 2018 Top Adventure College. (Brooke Larson, Daily Camera) CMC was named Elevation Outdoors magazine’s 2018 Top Adventure College, topping a field of 32 colleges and universities across seven Rocky Mountain states.