Outdoor Educator - Backpacking

Outdoor Educator - Backpacking and Whitewater Canoeing

This 30-day expedition for practicing and aspiring outdoor educators combines the skills of wilderness backpacking with northern whitewater canoeing in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

A remote Yukon mountain range is the perfect classroom for developing the skills of the backcountry professional. You’ll find an abundance of mountain wildlife amidst the alpine wildflowers and chest-high forests of dwarf birch and willow.

While learning the hiking and camping skills needed to manage groups in the remote backcountry, you’ll also spend time on technical canoeing skills, teaching techniques, and river rescue concepts.

After a month in the rugged mountains and on the river, you’ll have a powerful set of water and mountain skills for future professional and personal adventures in the backcountry.

This backpacking course takes you into Alaska’s sweeping tundra and steep mountain passes for a 24-day immersion into leading and teaching in the wilderness.

Your classroom will be Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park or the Talkeetna Mountains, where you’ll start below tree line, work your way along glaciated river valleys, and eventually reach the open tundra plains. Here’s where you’ll learn about effective teaching techniques and then get a chance to put those techniques into action.

If you are already an outdoor educator, this will be a chance for you to pick up new skills and techniques. If you are an aspiring outdoor educator, you’ll be well on your way after collecting the lessons on this course.

Before the expedition even begins, you’ll spend a day in town learning about equipment, program supervision, risk management, rations planning, and NOLS administrative practices.

The education you’ll get from the open tundra will travel home with you.

If you’re a practicing or aspiring outdoor educator, you know that learning to lead groups in two different skill areas is a professional advantage.

This course will prepare you to do just that, giving you the chance to learn how to lead on land and sea. Your classroom for the sea kayaking section is Prince William Sound with its plentiful wildlife and booming tidewater glaciers.

Using either Whittier or Valdez as a starting point, you’ll learn how to glide along the coast in a sea kayak and have a chance to practice your teaching skills in some of the most beautiful parts of the Sound.

For the backpacking portion of the course, you’ll be in either Wrangell-St. Elias National Park or the Talkeetna Mountains. In this land of tundra and rocky passes, you’ll work with our veteran educators to learn skills such as risk management, ration planning, and program supervision.

By the end of this expedition, you’ll be better equipped to teach, lead, and explore, whether in a boat or on foot.

Are you an active or aspiring outdoor educator? If so, we’ve designed this course for you. This is your opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching and leading field-based wilderness education programs.

While in the desert, you’ll learn “hard skills�such as backcountry travel, adapting minimum-impact techniques to an arid ecosystem, first aid, and map reading. We will also give you an inside track into the fundamentals of running wilderness education courses with an overview of program supervision, risk management, and NOLS administrative practices.

After building a foundation of program knowledge, the course dives into a 19-day backpacking expedition in the remote Kofa National Wildlife Refuge where you’ll learn or polish the backcountry skills you need to lead others on wilderness trips.

Then 10 days of rock climbing at Cochise Stronghold, a maze of granite pinnacles in the Dragoon Mountains where the Chiricahua Apache and their leader, Cochise, took refuge, rounds out the curriculum. Renowned for its excellent climbing, the Cochise provides an ideal classroom for learning rock climbing skills such as anchor systems, knots, and top-rope site management.

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