National Outdoor Leadership School
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
http://www.nols.edu/

Backpacking

An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every sense, allowing you to explore beautiful landscapes in either the Talkeetna Mountains, the Alaska Range, or Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, where the trees disappear and the land stretches into alpine tundra plains with a backdrop of rugged and heavily eroded mountains. Up here where it’s still light at midnight, you’ll follow t......
 

Alaska is a land of incredible fjords, forested ocean coasts, and high alpine meadows. Your month-long adventure will give you a chance to learn two wilderness travel skills, backpacking and sea kayaking. Your kayak will follow a route in the Prince William Sound where glaciers flow directly into the ocean and a variety of marine animals are easy to spot. You’ll learn how to handle your......
 

Since 1971, NOLS students have been exploring the wilds of Alaska in sea kayaks. There’s no better way to take in Alaska’s dramatic coastline than by gliding on the water. Your launching point for this course is Petersburg, Alaska, located in the heart of Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage. This archipelago is a remote land of forest and ocean. Beaches jut up against dense temperate rain for......
 

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......
 

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 ......
 

The highest peak in North America—known as Denali or “Great One�by Alaska Natives—is the site for this expedition designed for qualified NOLS graduates. Denali offers extremely challenging glacier travel and some of the most difficult weather in the world, so this course is one of the most physically and mentally demanding NOLS offers. In short, Denali is as unforgiving as it is beauti......
 

Our 23-and-over courses paddle in Alaska’s world famous Prince William Sound, past towering tidewater glaciers that moan and crackle, crystal-blue icebergs bobbing on the ocean’s surface, and wooded coves perfect for camping. The sea teems with various forms of life, and you’ll have the ideal vantage point to view it all. Sea birds wheel in the sky overhead while tidal pools with starfish, ......
 

North of the Arctic Circle and aptly dubbed Land of the Midnight Sun, much of the landscape in the Brooks Range lies above tree line and elevations range from sea level to over 9,000 feet. Designed especially for students ages 23 and older, this 14-day backpacking course packs in backcountry travel lessons in the steep shale mountains and expansive tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Ref......
 

The Brooks Range is one of the wildest mountain ranges in North America. Stretched across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle, this Land of the Midnight Sun is defined by big open river bottoms, steep mountain slopes and expansive tundra. After flying into the area with an experienced Alaskan bush pilot, you’ll spend the first 10 days of this extended Arctic expedition on foot, moving acr......
 

Come explore the wilderness of the American Southwest on your Mountain Instructor Course. While the focus will be on fine-tuning your teaching and leadership skills, you’ll also have ample time to experience both the Gila Wilderness and the desert beauty of Cochise Stronghold. You and your coursemates will have outdoor experience already, so we’ll focus our time on going over the fundamentals o......
 

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. W......
 

New Mexico’s Gila Range is the birthplace of the American concept of wilderness, protected by Congress 40 years before the Wilderness Act was passed in 1964. The Gila today remains the same as it was then, a wild place of amazing contrasts and abundance. You’ll live here for 28 days, hiking beneath the same tall pines and up the same deep canyons that inspired the wilderness concept. On......
 

Leave your hiking boots and water bottles at home; trail shoes and hydration bladders are all the rage these days. Partnering with GoLite and BackpackingLight.com, we are proud to offer this cutting-edge course in the deserts of the Southwest. Your adventure starts in the equipment room as NOLS instructors outfit you with the latest in lightweight gear and pull together a specialized rat......
 

The waters of coastal British Columbia provide a dynamic and beautiful environment for this Sea Kayak Instructor Course. The travel here will prepare you to work in the rest of NOLS�sea kayaking course areas, from Alaska to Baja. The expedition will focus on teaching, as well as learning, the NOLS curriculum: You and your coursemates will provide each other feedback on your teaching techniques......
 

With a team of dedicated teachers and a facility that’s ideal for expedition planning, we specialize in courses for educators at NOLS Pacific Northwest. On this outdoor educator course you’ll get a variety of skills—backpacking, mountaineering, and rock climbing—and experience a variety of terrain, from forests to glaciers and alpine rock. You’ll join a group of other motivated educator......
 

Washington’s North Cascades, often referred to as the “American Alps,�encompass some of America’s most spectacular scenery—jagged peaks, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls, and more glaciers than any other location in the Lower 48. Many of the world’s top mountaineers use this area as their training ground; the reasonable access combined with challenging mountain classrooms continue to make ......
 

This demanding expedition travels into British Columbia’s remote Coast Mountains, including the Waddington Range, Whitemantle Range, and Homathko Icefield, for a month-long experience in rock, snow, and ice mountaineering skills. Here you’ll get to experience the biggest and most remote glaciers NOLS travels on south of Alaska and more time to practice actual mountaineering since these course......
 

Washington’s wilderness areas are ideal training grounds for learning how to lead backpacking trips. Here you’ll join a diverse group of trip leaders for a packed overview of the NOLS curriculum. The length and cost of this course are designed for potential outdoor leaders and educators who don’t have a lot of time or a huge budget but are motivated to learn the ABCs of leading groups in th......
 

The Pacific Northwest is a richly diverse wilderness classroom, ranging from jagged, glacier-carved mountains and valleys to evergreen forests and stands of lodgepole pine. This popular backpacking course has two options for exploring this region. Early season students travel in the Pasayten Wilderness in north central Washington, while late season students backpack through Olympic National......
 

Find the full beauty of the Pacific Northwest on this all-ocean coastal exploration. You will sea kayak the remote waters of Vancouver Island’s outer coast, visiting pristine sandy beaches and hidden tidal lagoons while traveling in the wake of the many First Nations peoples and early explorers who opened the trade routes in this region. Along the way, learn a range of technical skills incl......
 

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