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Outdoor Educator - Backpacking and Whitewater Canoeing
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School/Trainer: National Outdoor Leadership School [>>]
Training Center(s)/Venue(s): Whitehorse, Canada

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......

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Take full advantage of the remote, pristine Yukon wilderness on this self-supported 30-day expedition. This course is perfect for students wanting to develop two distinct skills, hiking and canoeing, to be out for a month without re-supply, and to be on less technical rivers. With the diverse, captivating terrain, you’ll be able to focus on developing the skills to lead your peers in small ......

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Roam through the Yukon’s magnificent and trail-less wilderness of forest and mountains. You’ll explore and learn in the Yukon’s wild and remote unnamed mountain ranges, where you’ll climb far above tree line for awe-inspiring views and hike on open tundra. The Yukon is the perfect training ground for mastering camping and traveling skills, especially in bear country, as well as for developi......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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