National Outdoor Leadership School
Driggs, Idaho, United States
http://www.nols.edu/

Teton Valley Winter Outdoor Educator Workshop

Designed for practicing and aspiring winter educators, this course gives you the skills to teach in any winter wilderness. We begin with six days of workshops, including a Level I Avalanche clinic and two days advancing your telemark skills with professional ski instructors at Grand Targhee Resort. Then, we’ll move into the backcountry for miles of skiing in unblemished powder. You’ll bui......
 

Are you seeking the exhilaration of a perfect ride in untracked powder? Want to learn the skills to transition from being an area rider to a backcountry boarder? Then come snowboarding with NOLS! You’ll venture through the mountains on your split board, improving your snowboarding skills and learning to be comfortable and happy outside in the winter. In this snow-covered playground, you......
 

Just the thought of fresh snow is enough to excite most skiers. Now imagine the solitude of a winter night, the sky blanketed in endless stars—this is backcountry skiing. Living and traveling in this wild environment requires new skills and offers new challenges. To be a competent backcountry winter traveler, you’ll need a strong foundation in avalanche education. We will teach you the ......
 

This course is designed for 14- and 15-year-olds who want to climb a peak and guide a paddle raft all in one action-packed month. You’ll see two very different environments on this course—high alpine vistas in the craggy Lemhis or Beaverheads and deep canyons along the famous Salmon River in Idaho—while learning two very different skills. For the backpacking section, you’ll learn map and ......
 

The goal of the Professional Instructor Course is to provide a fast track for those who already have ample experience leading in the outdoors to become NOLS instructors. We’ll focus on orienting you to the NOLS curriculum, course progression, and culture, but a large part of this course will be the expertise that you and your coursemates bring to the table. Here in the Wind River Range, you’ll ......
 

The goal of the Professional Instructor Course is to provide a fast track for those who already have ample experience leading in the outdoors to become NOLS instructors. We’ll focus on orienting you to the NOLS curriculum, course progression, and culture, but a large part of this course will be the expertise that you and your coursemates bring to the table. Here in the Wind River Range, you’ll ......
 

The canyons of Utah’s Green River, the birthplace of whitewater boating, are the perfect training ground for experienced whitewater paddlers and rafters to become NOLS instructors. A fleet of craft including rafts, kayaks, and canoes will offer plenty of opportunity to become familiar with the NOLS river curriculum as you travel through this beautiful and colorful region. We’ll focus on maneuve......
 

The Wind River mountain range is the place Paul Petzoldt chose for the first NOLS course more than 40 years ago, and we have trained instructors here ever since. Your Rocky Mountain Instructor Course will build on the technical outdoor skills you already have, while allowing you to fine-tune your teaching skills through an in-depth examination of the NOLS curriculum. The course is typically bro......
 

The Wind River mountain range is the place Paul Petzoldt chose for the first NOLS course more than 40 years ago, and we have trained instructors here ever since. Your Rocky Mountain Instructor Course will build on the technical outdoor skills you already have, while allowing you to fine-tune your teaching skills through an in-depth examination of the NOLS curriculum. The course is typically bro......
 

NOLS specializes in teaching teachers. In fact, we have been inspiring and teaching outdoor educators for over 40 years. On this course, whether you’re an aspiring or current outdoor educator, you’ll learn the latest skills and techniques from some of the best-trained outdoor educators in the world in order to support you in your outdoor profession. This course offers either a 23-day backp......
 

The rugged, glacier-carved Wind River Range is famous for its sheer granite headwalls, soaring spires, and towering 13,000-foot summits covered with rock and surrounded by glaciers. This remote range is also famous for mountaineering expeditions that have a perfect blend of glacier travel, snow ascents, and rock climbing. You’ll learn fundamental mountaineering skills such as belaying, rappel......
 

Hidden deep in the Wind River Range, above jumbled moraine and glacial ice, Gannett Peak is Wyoming’s highest peak. Reaching this remote 13,804-foot summit requires an approach of several days, followed by the climb itself. You’ll travel on snow and ice, cross Dinwoody Glacier and work up the rock to the summit. This expedition is a perfect opportunity to put your NOLS camping and trave......
 

IImagine expeditioning 125 miles through the breathtaking canyons of Utah’s wild Green River, the birthplace of whitewater boating. This course offers a thorough introduction to travel skills on the same river that launched General John Wesley Powell’s famous 1869 expedition. You’ll learn to kayak, captain a paddle raft, and row an oar rig as you negotiate the whitewater of Desolation and Lo......
 

If you relish the anticipation of a raft slipping silently across flat water toward a line where the river disappears and a big rapid churns or if you crave the roar of whitewater and the chance to command your own crew as you lean into each paddle stroke, you’ve come to the right place. Expert NOLS river instructors will teach you the essentials of whitewater boating on a course designed to ......
 

The only course at NOLS dedicated solely to fishing, this expedition is an angler’s dream. Orvis�guides will teach you the fly-fishing skills to be an ace on the water while your NOLS instructors turn you into an outdoor expert. After an intensive three-day Orvis�fly-fishing seminar to help you perfect your cast, learn to “match the hatch,�and read the water, you’ll shoulder your pack an......
 

Imagine mastering two skills in two very different wilderness environments, the stunning canyons of Wyoming and the whitewater of Utah’s Green River. The climbing section in either Sinks Canyon outside Lander, Wyoming or Vedauwoo near Laramie, Wyoming explores granite, limestone and sandstone rock as well as stunning canyon scenery. You’ll learn movement on rock, knots, rope handling, belay......
 

This course is a comprehensive immersion into the sport of traditional (“trad� rock climbing. You’ll learn the fundamentals of climbing on some of Wyoming’s famous sheer granite walls and towering spires. Your instructors will emphasize skills such as climbing techniques, rope systems, anchors, rappelling and belaying, protection placement, risk management, and lead philosophy. You’ll ......
 

There’s nothing quite like seeing the wilderness on horseback. We’ll take you from the NOLS-owned and -operated Three Peaks Ranch into the wilderness of the Wind River Range and immerse you in the basics of Western horsemanship—care and feeding, horse behavior and herd dynamics, tack, saddling, and riding—and other unique skills of packing and traveling with horses. You’ll care for your sad......
 

A Wyoming Backpacking Adventure is a true wilderness expedition designed for young people. For the entire 30 days of the course, your mode of travel will be your own two feet, not a crowded van. Traveling on durable surfaces, like snow, is one of the tenets of Leave No Trace backpacking. Wind River Range Photo: Rainbow Weinstock You’ll be with students your own age and NOLS instructor......
 

Your adventure starts in the equipment room as you and your instructors organize your gear and food—all the while shaving ounces. How light can you go? Outfitted with 25- to 30-pound packs (10�5 pounds without food and fuel), you and your coursemates will be off to one of Wyoming’s most remote and wild ranges to enjoy the wilderness as you never thought imaginable—without the burden of a h......
 

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