National Outdoor Leadership School - Index

National Outdoor Leadership School - Nols - Index

The Southwest's great weather and great rock help student Jodi Swain send a route at Cochise Stronghold.
The Southwest is a place of amazing diversity, where plants
and animals of the Neararctic intersperse with those of the
Neotropics, a land of jaguar and mountain lion, javelina and whitetailed
deer. Birds such as the coppery-tailed trogon and white-eared
hummingbird fly the same skies as red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures.
It's a land that famed naturalist Aldo Leopold walked and
called "near to being the cream of creation.?
The Southwest is also a region of incredible human diversity.
Courses pass through areas originally inhabited by ancient cultures,
and evidence of their civilizations is still present. This is the
place Apache leaders Cochise and Geronimo fought for and lived
in. The area's more recent Spanish influence is obvious as soon as
you arrive in Tucson. With easy access, amazing diversity and challenging
outdoor skills, a course at NOLS Southwest is hard to beat.
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Chris Bessonette