It competes in the Mountain West Conference, which consists of nine universities located mostly in the Mountain States of the U.S., with outlying members in California and Texas.
Some of the more famous mountains in the Mountain West are Mount Elbert, Pikes Peak, Blanca Peak, Longs Peak, Kings Peak, Wind River Peak, Cloud Peak, Wheeler Peak, Truchas Peak, Granite Peak, Borah Peak, and Humphreys Peak.
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It is a widespread species in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, ranging from southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana through the southern Rocky Mountain states at moderately high elevations and mountains of western Mexico at least south to Durango.