Rocky Mountain Independent archives

For three months in the summer of 2009, I was a partner at an experimental news web site in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Independent. These are some of the stories I told through video and photography at RMI.

Colorado School of Mines Freshman Hill Climb

As school starts in the fall, freshmen at the Colorado School of Mines are initiated by climbing the foothills overlooking Golden to add rocks from their hometowns to the giant white "M" overlooking the college. The whitewashing of the new rocks usually gets out of hand....

Small college football

Colorado has big football schools like the University of Colorado and Colorado State -- with stadiums for tens of thousands (and weekend traffic jams to match). But each autumn weekend there are also football games at the smaller colleges around the state, with a more intimate community atmosphere. Colorado School of Mines is one of those....