National Outdoor Leadership School
Riverton, Wyoming, United States
http://www.nols.edu/

Absaroka Backpacking

Yellowstone National Park’s wild eastern neighbor is Wyoming’s Absaroka (Ab-sor-ka) Range, a vast wilderness region with some of the most remote territory in the Lower 48. You’ll travel through broad river valleys surrounded by sheer glacier-carved cliffs, camp under towering conifers, and hike across alpine plateaus where the tallest plants are only a few inches high. You’ll fly-fish for l......
 

This is the original NOLS course and the most popular expedition we offer. For 30 days, you’ll explore the Wind River Mountains, a wilderness range renowned for its pristine lakes and rugged mountain beauty. After carrying a pack efficiently loaded with everything you need to the top of your first high mountain pass, you’ll descend into a glacial valley and help lead your hiking group to ca......
 

Beyond the golden hour: step outside the standard scope of EMS. Building on your background in urban emergency care, you will address practices and protocols critical to managing patients in a wilderness or extended care environment. WMI will provide you the the latest information on decision-making principles and practices guiding wilderness treatment and evacuation decisions. This 3-day i......
 

Building on your background in urban emergency care you will learn how to improvise equipment, deal with challenging environmental conditions, and make difficult medical decisions in remote locations. This intense, hands-on curriculum utilizes daily role plays, case studies and practical scenarios. Expect to spend plenty of time applying your knowledge. This six-day course is ideal for EMT&......
 

River guides and other trip leading staff often require a more extensive training program than the Wilderness First Aid course. This five day course focuses on stabilization, treatment and evacuation guidelines of patients in backcountry environments. More emphasis is placed on long term patient care management and specific injury evaluation. This course may be used for wilderness medici......
 

The capstone WMI experience, the Wilderness EMT, is the highest level of wilderness medicine training available. WMI’s WEMT certification opens the door to a variety of career opportunities, whether you want to work as an EMT, on the ski patrol, or take steps towards becoming a medical doctor. This month-long intensive program combines wilderness medicine with urban medical care practic......
 

This is a nationally recognized program that trains participants to respond to emergencies in remote settings. The 80-hour curriculum includes standards for urban and extended care situations. Special topics include but are not limited to: wound management and infection, realigning fractures and dislocations, improvised splinting techniques, patient monitoring and long term management probl......
 

Our snowboarding course begins with learning basic skills needed for comfortable winter travel in the backcountry ¡ª everything from lighting stoves and lanterns to cold injury prevention and avalanche education. After a day of snowboarding instruction at Grand Targhee Resort, you¡¯ll head out into the backcountry of the Snake River Range. For 10 days, you¡¯ll camp, travel and play in the winter b......
 

At 28,000 square miles, Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest intact temperate ecosystems and a national treasure. Shaped by massive volcanic eruptions that bubbled up some 640,000 years ago, Yellowstone’s fiery beginnings gave rise to an incredible diversity of life. No one else provides such a comprehensive tour of this magnificent landscape in the wintertime. For almost tw......
 

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

Whether you love winter or seek the thrill and solitude of skiing in the backcountry, this course will teach you how to live in a world of snow. Winter camping in the Northern Rockies is challenging and demands hard work, but the rewards are amazing¡ªyou’ll leave with a new set of skills for traveling competently in a harsh and beautiful environment. Skis are your main tool in deep untra......
 

Staged out of our river base located in Vernal, Utah, this course offers a thorough introduction to river travel skills. You¡¯ll learn to kayak, captain a paddle raft and row an oar rig as you negotiate the breathtaking canyons of the West¡¯s wild Green River. You begin in calm water, practicing wet exit and entry, rolling techniques and basic strokes. Progressing to moving water, you¡¯ll learn mo......
 

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¡­ If you crave the roar of whitewater and, most of all, the chance to command your own crew with calls like ¡°forward paddle, hard!¡± as you lean into each paddle stroke and the raft buckles and bends over a train of waves¡­ This is your course. For 21 days......
 

High in Alaska’s mountains, the Copper River serves as a major drainage for the Chugach Mountains and the southern Alaska Range. This remote drainage, where tidewater glaciers descend right into the river and chunks of ice bob and crackle on the surface, will be the site of your 40 and older rafting adventure. You’ll learn to paddle 14-foot rafts as you make your way to the tiny c......
 

Wildlife and water, mountain and forest. Since 1971, NOLS students have been exploring and experiencing the wilds of Alaska via sea kayak. The Alaska Sea Kayaking course brings you to an amazing place and provides you with a wide variety of learning experiences. You’ll learn things like getting along with your peers and grinning through a difficult day of rain-we call this expedition b......
 

Your classroom for this 40 and older expedition is the wild and scenic Main Salmon River, which drops 1,200 feet in 89 miles to create some of the most exciting whitewater in the West. This is the largest road-less wilderness in the lower 48, and it will be your home as you navigate its blue-green waters in rafts and oar rigs. This isn’t a guided trip¡ªyou’ll learn our core river curr......
 

This course combines wilderness and whitewater for an exciting 28-day backcountry adventure. You¡¯ll begin backpacking for 18 days among the sculpted peaks and mountain meadows of the Beaverheads or Lemhi ranges in Idaho. You¡¯ll climb peaks and fish for trout as you learn to travel through high mountain terrain and forested hills. Group management in steep terrain and map reading are two of the ......
 

This backcountry horsepacking expedition will take you from the NOLS owned and operated Three Peaks Ranch into the wilderness of Wyoming. On this course you¡¯ll learn the basics of western horsemanship¡ªcare and feeding, horse behavior and herd dynamics, tack, saddling, and riding¡ªand the unique skills of packing and traveling with horses. After polishing your skills for a few days at the ra......
 

This course, specifically designed for our students age 23 and over, takes place in Red Rocks National Conservation Area outside Las Vegas, Nevada. You¡¯ll base camp in one of the campgrounds managed by the Red Rocks Conservation Area. Red Rocks is a wonderland of sandstone, world-renowned desert climbing and excellent multi-pitch routes. Tailored for climbers of all experience levels, from ......
 

This course is a comprehensive immersion in the fast-growing sport of traditional (¡°trad¡±) rock climbing. NOLS has been teaching rock climbing for nearly 40 years, and on this course you¡¯ll benefit from that knowledge and experience. The skills you learn here will stick with you when you climb the crags back home. You¡¯ll have a chance to learn the fundamentals of climbing on some of Wyoming¡¯s f......
 

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