Hiking Club at CU
About Us
Our Story
Founded in 1919, the Hiking Club at CU has built an adventurous community of students who wish to explore the wilderness around Boulder and across the United States. From casual hikers to advanced backpackers, the club strives to create a forum for people to meet and explore together. We lead both day-hikes and overnight trips every weekend throughout the school year during fall, winter, and spring! The club is run by a passionate group of Officers who care deeply about their members' physical and emotional wellbeing, while also working to carry on over 100 years of tradition.
Leadership
Our amazing officers are here to help you get outdoors! The club is run by three Executive Officers and several Junior Officers who handle administrative tasks, club organization, and outreach. Officers organize the weekly trips, including logistics, transportation, gear, and food, while making sure that everyone on the trip has a great time! All of our officers have some level of medical training, whether that's WFR, WFA, WEMT, or basic first aid. We work together to make sure your trip is fun, safe and memorable!
Meet the Officers
Ava Towle
Executive Officer
Ava is a senior studying Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Geography, from the wicked awesome city of Boston, Massachusetts! She loves to ski, climb, camp and is especially obsessed with moose (which she will be looking for on every hike she's on!)
Sara Muderick
Executive Officer
Sara is studying Psychology and Communications and is from Narberth, Pennsylvania, or as she likes to say "right outside of Philly." Expect to be giggling the whole way down and stopping at a cute little coffee shop to grab a matcha on the way back from her hikes. Sara is often found at the Chautauqua Pickleball Courts, so make sure to challenge her to a duel.
Lily is our resident Gear Monkey for the Spring Semester of 2025!
Lily Wagner
Officer & Gear Monkey
Cameron is an international affairs major from Connecticut! He loves getting into the outdoors, photography, and flying. He specializes in cooking elaborate camp meals (and cleaning up after, of course)!
Cameron Hirsch
Officer & Social Media
Sophie Goldman
Officer
Sophie is a sophomore Civil Engineering major whose only dream in life is to kick rocks in new places. She is from Atlanta but is definitely not afraid to challenge some tall mountains. She loves iced coffee and super weird sour candy and is stoked to do some awesome hikes with you!!!
Isabella Sarralde
Officer
Isa is from San Diego, California, home of the California burrito! She's studying Chemical Engineering (ew), but when she's not drowning in homework she loves concerts, snowboarding, traveling, and basically anything outdoors. She believes in snowboarding superiority and that dogs are the best animal. Her favorite hike is Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park!
Drew Wonderlin
Prospective Officer
Drew is a film and business major. His favorite hikes are the ones where he's summiting a mountain, and he often has his camera on hikes. You can find him at concerts when he's not hiking or skiing.
Maia Parkin
Officer
Maia is studying Ecology & Evolutionary Biology with a Spanish minor. She grew up literally 5 minutes from campus. Her favorite hike is Tour Du Mont Blanc in the Alps! She loves dancing, skiing, coffee shops, dips in alpine lakes!
Hunter Liu
Officer
Hey, I'm Hunter Liu! I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Astronomy. I love hiking, camping, stargazing, and constantly pondering our existence in the neverending black void of space… Besides that! - to me, a breath of fresh air in the mountains is the greatest feeling in the world!
Emily Auer
Officer
Emily love love loves road trips!!! She is always outside, off roading, traveling, and playing with her dog, Kayenta.
Avery Hellman
Officer
Avery is a senior from beautiful Connecticut! She's studying EBIO, and when she's not hustling homework, you can find her hiking, listening to edm, and getting crafty. She loves monkeys, mac and cheese, and mountains!! This year she really want to do more 14ers and eat them for breakfast. Her favorite hikes include crazy rock formations.
Shay Ridge
Officer & CU Outreach
Hi!!! My name is Shay and I am a double major in EBIO/ATOC. I love to hike (of course), go skiing, listen to music, and go to the gym! My favorite hikes are the slot canyons of Moab. I will always be down to go canyoneering, rafting, or any backcountry exploration adventure!
Hank Barton
Prospective Officer
Hank loves the outdoors and everything around it hiking, climbing, mountaineering all of it. He loves eating soup while camping and singing around the campfire. His favorite hike ever is the decalibron (Mt. Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln, and Bross)
Andrew Senior
Officer
Hailing from the great city of Parker, Colorado, Andrew is a sophomore studying Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Whenever he’s not hiking, he’s usually thinking about what hike he’ll do next, that or reading, studying, or skiing.
Libby Rutledge
Officer
Libby is a junior majoring in evolutionary biology and ecology. From New Hampshire, she developed a deep love for mountains through her summers spent in the White Mountains. Outside of hiking, Libby enjoys spending time with black cats, canoeing, and collecting stickers for her Nalgenes!
Bailey Binder
Officer
Bailey is a Colorado native who loves hiking. He is a sophomore majoring in neuroscience and wants to get outdoors as much as possible before grinding his way through med school for the next 4 years. Although he clearly loves school, Bailey's actual hobbies include playing soccer, hanging out with friends, and trying new things.
Jeffrey is a sophomore studying business and geography. Hailing from the great commonwealth of Massachusetts, Jeffrey could not wait to get to a place with higher peaks and less ice. When not hiking or skipping up mountains, Jeffrey can be found shredding the slopes, exploring scenic gas stations, eating tacos, going to the top floor of parking garages, and visiting Peña Blvd.
Jeffrey Dratch
Prospective Officer
Kayenta (Kai)
Mascot
i’m a little new to this school thing, and this winter thing.. but if you see me walking around, i take treats (but no veggies)!!
Bekah Cook
Officer
Bekah is from Harrisburg Oregon and studying Biological Engineering! Her favorite hike is Delta Lake in Grand Tetons National Park. She loves to hike, camp, ski, workout, and take pictures. She LOVES bears and can usually be found sleeping outside (even on airbnb trips), searching for animals, or studying in Norlin (come say hi!!)
Kaden Piel
Prospective Officer
Kaden is from Merino Colorado and his favorite hike is American Lakes in Walden Colorado!
Lila Blees
Prospective Officer
Lila is from Colorado Springs and would love to go hiking in the sand dunes! She also loves going to Wyoming or Utah! She is a biomedical engineering major! She loves to hike (obviously), ski, play spikeball, and really anything outdoors!
Cate McCarthy
Prospective Officer
Cate is majoring in IPHY and Public Health. Her favorite hike is the Mt. Whitney Trail. She loves to hike (duh), run, bake, ski, and drink coffee.
Cameron Sullivan
Prospective Officer
Cameron is from Philadelphia and studying economics, data science, and political science. In his free time he likes to play pickup basketball, hacky sack, ski, hike, and listen to new music.
Jonah Pestak
Prospective Officer
Jonah is an Econ and Math major from Lower Merion, PA. He loves hiking and snowboarding, and his favorite hiking spot is the Adirondacks
Camille Doricko
Prospective Officer
Camille is a second year environmental engineer, and my focus is environmental conservation. She love hikes that include a bridge or boardwalk (#marshgirl) and one of her favorite places of all time to hike (more of a walk but oh well) is probably watkins glenn in NY. In her free time she loves going to concerts, watching movies, and being outdoors!
JJ Turner
Prospective Officer
JJ is a boulder native and an Eagle Scout! He's studying Neuroscience and Psych and his favorite hike is The Narrows in Zion National Park!
Evan is a computer science student from Colorado Springs. In addition to hiking, he likes to climb, run, and stargaze.
Evan Curtis
Officer
Ricky is a mechanical engineering student originally from Corvallis, Oregon. Aside from hiking, he loves to mountain bike, trail run, and ski. He is concerningly bad at not getting lost, but at least half of the hikers that go on trips with him usually make it back.
Ricky Wood
Executive Officer
Sidney says she’s from Philly, when in reality she’s from a suburb outside the city. Aside from hiking, she likes running, skiing, reading, consuming loads of caffeine, and watching scary movies. She’s studying Media Production with an emphasis on Film and Journalism (which really means she has no idea what she’s doing and just wants to make crazy cool documentaries). She struggles to pick up on sarcasm or form any acceptable dance moves.
Sidney Yarnall
Officer & Social Media
Isaac is originally from Florida. He had no idea where to start with hiking when he first arrived, but the Hiking Club was a great resource for him to get to know Colorado. He is now a proud officer and loves helping others explore. Isaac is a Geology major at CU, so if you see his name on an upcoming hike, be ready to learn about some rocks!!
Isaac Leb
Officer & Gear Monkey
A simple monkey-brained Marine who’d give anything to be a 19th-century outlaw cowboy riding a dun-colored mustang stallion through the old west. He will carry gummy bears on every hike, and champions the idea of “it could be worse”. One day he’ll rejoin the Marine Corps as a commissioned officer and participate in extreme camping and hiking on some remote Pacific islands. For now, he’s enjoying the Boulder views, easy-breezy life of a History major, and hiking until his knees give out.
Steven Krokodilos
Officer & Discord Manager
Andrew is from this magical place called Maryland. It is a rare occasion to see him wearing clothing without the Maryland flag on it. He is studying Mechanical Engineering (which means he has no idea what to do with his life but he's decent at math). Outside of hiking, Andrew enjoys skiing, going to concerts, eating food, and running (gross). Ask him about running the 4-Pass Loop in one day (yay for altitude sickness).
Andrew Victory
Officer
Raised in Silverthorne, Colorado, Audrey is an easily distracted nature nerd studying Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. When not hiking, she can be seen frantically searching for evidence of wildlife, birdwatching, fly fishing, camping, and practicing rookie photography.
Audrey Anderson
Officer & Social Media
Dawson is from Philly, the land of cheesesteaks and hoagies. He is currently a junior at CU where he studies astrophysics. Outside of the classroom, he enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and going to foosball tournaments in Denver. His favorite trip with the club is backpacking 4 Pass Loop.
Dawson Stremme
Officer
A short, scraggly, freckle-faced redhead who compensates with a valiant V8 steed. Also known as a champion bear rider and the fastest easter bunny to ever complete the Skyline Traverse. The mountains have repeatedly filed restraining orders against her, but you can't stop true love. A trip with this weirdo includes a tape deck music adapter, hiking too fast for too long, and almost running into her when she stops to pick up rocks.
Kasey Madsen
Executive Officer
Claire is from the boondocks of Georgia where she learned her love for the outdoors. She is majoring in environmental studies with a public health certificate. Aside from hiking, she loves working out, reading, skiing, road trips, and riding horses! Join her on a hike for some fun!
Claire Howard
Officer
Originally from McLean, VA, Sam came to Boulder for Environmental Engineering at CU - but really she moved out here for the mountains. Sam fell in love with hiking, skiing, climbing, and basically anything outdoors. These activities led her to the CU Hiking Club. Join Sam on a hike (when she’s not injured) and you’ll hear her wow over absolutely every view and wildflower, as well as always finding a dog to pet.
Sam Prestige
Executive Officer & Social Media
A Boulder native, Greta became a dedicated hiker by the time she could walk. She was unable to find any place cooler than Boulder for college, so she stayed to study chemical engineering. Go hiking with Greta and you'll hear all the local secrets and definitely not get lost in the woods while trying to find an exciting new trail. You may also find Greta skiing, making hummus, or looking at cows.
Greta Koenig
Executive Officer
Tristan was born in Santa Barbara, CA, but spent most of his life in the Eastern Sierra. In addition to hiking, Tristan loves knuckle-dragging the gnar and crushing V8 boulders like veggie juice. As the club's official Hiker Mom, you can expect Tristan to bring dog treats, dad jokes, and excessive enthusiasm on every hike. Just be prepared to hear him talk endlessly about working at REI and his delicious homemade nut butters. Can you guess his age?
Tristan Blommer
Officer & Web Designer
Maya is a senior Biochemistry and Public Health major who thought she was a fast hiker until she joined the hiking club. She’s still pretty quick, but the plant, fungi, and other assorted wildlife viewing keeps her a little busy. She drinks two lattes every morning (yes, even while backpacking), role plays as a bean scientist, and can do at least 6 pull-ups (wow).
Maya Nelson
Officer & First Aid Advisor
Ben Horton
Executive Officer
Ben is senior from San Diego, California, studying Integrative Physiology. Other than hiking, he loves surfing, golfing, running, and drinking lattes. He doesn't enjoy the cold, but the views on our hikes always make it all worth it. Expect a pit stop for pie to be on my post hike agenda!
You can find Maeve in the Kombucha aisle of Whole Foods or on the trails around Boulder. She’s from Minnesota, but came to Colorado to live out her inner crunchy granola girl lifestyle! When not hiking, drawing, climbing, or embarrassing herself in public, Maeve can be found studying Geography (the earth rocks!!). Come hike with Maeve for a good time!!
Maeve Banavige
Officer
Tommy Doherty
Officer
Hello! My name is Tommy, I'm from North Andover, Massachusetts. I love sleeping, chilling, and eating, especially when it's happening outside. In my next life I want to be a tree. I'm a senior majoring in environmental studies with a business minor. I'm excited to go on some epic trips this year! Go Bruins!
The greatest bear boxer this side of the pacific (yes, he is better than Anthony [but only on alternating Tuesdays]). On his day’s off from bear boxing, he will sometimes hike, but he only hikes to lakes. It's just a weird thing he does. Don't ask us. He also pretends to be Irish, like all the time.
Liam Duncan
Officer & Irish Culture Consultant
Ryan Lowell
Officer
Ryan is from San Diego, California and is studying molecular biology. Other than hiking, he likes skiing, surfing, and honestly anything outside. Favorite foods include bagels, pizza, pasta, dumplings, and sushi!!
Ariana Rewolinski
Executive Officer
Ariana is an EBIO and Geography major who obviously has a major dislike of hiking. She is originally from Wisconsin, but had to move because she's lactose-intolerant. She also likes camping, backpacking, cryptobiotic crust, skiing, water features (especially if there's algae in there), and napping and crafting when camping.