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Backpacking training courses and schools

School: National Outdoor Leadership School
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Alaska Backpacking and Sea Kayaking
Course Format: Else
Alaska is a land of incredible fjords, forested ocean coasts, and high alpine meadows. You’ll see much of this wild country as you explore it on foot and in a sea kayak. Your month-long adventure will give you a chance to master two wilderness travel skills ¡ª backpacking and sea kayaking ¡ª while at the same time getting a chance to explore two very different environments. You’ll ...
 

Brooks Range Backpacking
Course Format: Else
An expedition to the amazing Brooks Range will take you into 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. Much of the landscape lies above tree line, and elevations range from sea level to over 9,000 feet. The mountains a...
 

Alaska Backpacking
Course Format: Else
An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every sense. You¡¯ll be in far-flung country, either the Talkeetna Mountains or just east of Denali National Park in the Alaska Range, where the trees disappear and the land stretches into alpine tundra plains with a backdrop of rugged and heavily eroded mountains. Out here, it¡¯s still light at midnight, and you¡¯ll follow the tracks of t...
 

Sonoran Natural History
Course Format: Else
Tucked into the heart of the lower Sonoran desert is the Kofa (King of Arizona) Wildlife Refuge, an area famous for rare wildlife, remote and off-trail travel, and rugged canyons. In this undisturbed desert ecosystem, you’ll study natural history and learn the essentials of wilderness travel. This unique NOLS course combines two days of formal natural history training with 18 days of w...
 

Rock Climbing
Course Format: Else
The granite cliffs, buttes and ridges of Arizona¡¯s Santa Teresa Mountains have been shaped and weathered into strikingly picturesque formations. Here deep canyons, rocky domes, tall spires and bald summits dominate the landscape, creating a wilderness rock climber¡¯s dream. For 21 days, you¡¯ll hike, camp and climb among these granite outcrops, learning comprehensive desert travel skills incl...
 

Southwest Outdoor Educator - Backpacking (Arizona)
Course Format: Else
This 31-day course begins with a 19-day backpacking expedition in the remote Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Arizona. In this Sonoran Desert environment you¡¯ll learn the backcountry living skills you need to lead others on wilderness trips. You¡¯ll travel among saguaro cactus, mesquite, ocotillo and palo verde trees, where quail, songbirds and raptors share the skies, and desert bi...
 

Gila Range Backpacking (New Mexico)
Course Format: Else
New Mexico’s Gila range is the birthplace of the American concept of wilderness. In 1924, Congress set aside the Gila as wilderness, 40 full years before the Wilderness Act. The Gila today remains much as it was then, a wild place of amazing contrasts and abundance. You’ll live here for 30 days, hiking beneath the same tall pines and up the same deep canyons that inspired the wild...
 

Pacific Northwest Trip Leader
Course Format: Else
Washington¡¯s Pasayten Wilderness and Mount Rainier National Park 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 is designed for practicing outdoor leaders and educators who don¡¯t have a lot of time or a huge budget but are motivated to lea...
 

Pacific Northwest Backpacking (Washington)
Course Format: Else
The Pacific Northwest is a richly diverse wilderness classroom, ranging from jagged, glacier-carved mountains and valleys, to old growth forests and stands of lodgepole pine. These popular backpacking courses have two options for exploring this region: Early season courses travel in the Pasayten Wilderness in north central Washington, while late season courses backpack through Olympic Natio...
 

Idaho Adventure for 14 and 15 Year Olds
Course Format: Else
Independence, responsibility, achievement, fun ¡­ these qualities and more are the essence of this course. In a word: Adventure. You¡¯ll be with students your own age as you explore country you¡¯ve only dreamed about. The Jed Smith Wilderness, the Wyoming Range, the Snake River Range, the Beaverheads or the Tetons will be unlike any classroom you¡¯ve ever experienced with their fresh air and fresh ...
 

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