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National Outdoor Leadership School - Index

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Above: Effectively leading your peers in the backcountry will transfer to life back at home
as well. Below: Instructors demonstrate important safety skills before getting on the water.
ALASKA BACKPACKING
An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every
sense, allowing you to explore beautiful landscapes in either the Talkeetna
Mountains or the area 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 the seasonal caribou migration. How to hike
on tundra, identify the birds, flowers, wildlife and plants of the
North Country, and keep warm, dry and happy even when it's wet
are all part of your backcountry curriculum. You'll become a seasoned
wilderness traveler, learning how to read a map, navigate off
trail, and scan the horizon for grizzly, black bears, moose, wolves
and Dall sheep.
DETAILS
Age and Length:
16 & Over ? Average age: 19 ? Duration: 30 days
16 & 17 Only ? Duration: 30 days
Tuition: $3,725
Course start/end: Palmer, Alaska
Fly in/out: Anchorage, Alaska
College Credit: 2 hours Environmental Ethics; 2 hours Leadership Techniques; 2 hours Skills
Practicum
Dates: page 112
Tracy Baynes Shawn Stratton
ALASKA OUTDOOR EDUCATOR:
BACKPACKING AND SEA KAYAKING
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 all-in-one 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. Your route will
begin in the coastal community of Whittier or Valdez, and will continue
out onto the Sound. Along the way you'll learn how to glide
along the coast in a sea kayak and have a chance to practice your
teaching skills in some of the most beautiful parts of the Sound.
For the backpacking portion of the course, you'll be in either
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park or the Talkeetna Mountains, home
to Dall sheep, grizzly and black bears, moose, and caribou. In this
land of tundra and rocky passes, you'll work with our veteran educators
to learn skills such as risk management, ration planning and
program supervision. By the end of this expedition, you'll be better
equipped to teach, lead and explore, whether in a boat or on foot.
DETAILS
Age and Length: 18 & Over ? Average Age: 26 ? Duration: 30 days
Eligibility: Qualified practicing or potential outdoor educators
Tuition: $3,795
Course start/end: Palmer, Alaska
Fly in/out: Anchorage, Alaska
College Credit: 2 hours Leadership Techniques; 2 hours Risk Assessment; 2 hours Skills
Practicum
Dates: page 112
ALASKA OUTDOOR EDUCATOR: BACKPACKING
This backpacking course takes you into Alaska's sweeping tundra
and steep mountain passes for a 24-day immersion into how to lead
and teach 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, head into the mountains along glaciated
river valleys, and eventually reach the open tundra plains.
Here's where you'll learn about effective teaching techniques
and then get a chance to put those techniques into action. If you are
already an outdoor educator, this will be a chance for you to pick up
new skills and techniques. If you are an aspiring outdoor educator,
you'll be well on your way after collecting the lessons on this course.
Your instructors are veteran educators, and you'll have a chance to
glean tips from them. Before the expedition even begins, you'll spend
a day in town learning about equipment, program supervision, risk
management, rations planning and NOLS administrative practices.
The lessons you learn in the open tundra will travel home
with you, and for challenging, wild terrain and opportunities to see
animals such as bear and caribou, there is no rival to this course.
DETAILS
Age and Length: 18 & Over ? Average age: 29 ? Duration: 24 days
Eligibility: Qualified practicing or potential outdoor educators
Tuition: $3,015
Course start/end: Palmer, Alaska
Fly in/out: Anchorage, Alaska
College Credit: 2 hours Leadership Techniques; 2 hours Risk Assessment
Dates: page 112
Semester in Alaska, page 85
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