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Backpacking the Vilcabamba Valley to Machu Picchu Alumni Trip: Inaugural Trip Reflection
An Interview with Kellsie Forbes, NOLS Alumni Trips Manager Where did the idea to create an alumni trip to explore the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu come from? Jorge Anhalzer, a NOLS instructor from Ecuador, and his friend Sam Husley, a NOLS instructor who lives in Peru, proposed it last year. It’s such a spectacular place. Most of our alumni…
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Slate: What Counts as Wilderness?
When you hear the word wilderness, what do you picture? Vast woods full of leaping stags? A mountain rearing up…
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BioLite: Why Remaining Calm is the Most Important Preparedness Tool
When was the last time you attended a class focused on scaling a mountain face or navigating rapids? For most…
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Polymath Mag: My Journey to Becoming Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Through NOLS
Ever since my cousin told me about his NOLS expeditions that he took in high school I had been interested…
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County 10: NOLS Celebrates 50 Years with 10th Mountain Division Living History Display
As part of the NOLS 50th Anniversary Celebration, the 10th Mountain Division is hosting a Living History Display featuring the…
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RMFI: Staffer Travels to the NOLS 50th Anniversary Party
This month, on October 8th through 10th, the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with an…
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County 10: NOLS Celebrated 50th with Reminiscing, Parties, Workshops, Planning
Fifty years ago on March 4, 1965, Judge Jack Nicholas and Paul Petzoldt signed papers establishing the National Outdoor Leadership…
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Casper Star Tribune: Congrats to NOLS on 50 Years
Students learn to be adaptable and resourceful. They learn to persevere and to pursue goals doggedly. Those are life skills…
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KDLY/KOVE: NOLS Holds Welcome & Opening Event
John Ganns, Director of the Lander based National Outdoor Leadership School, welcomed over seven-hundred returning NOLS graduates , former staff,…
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Sierra Club Radio: An American Ascent, the first African American expedition to take on Denali
Photographer Hudson Henry on the new documentary An American Ascent, which covers the first African American expedition to take on…
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