Guided Backpacking Trips and Backpacking Courses

Strap on that pack and explore our wild world on a NOLS guided backpacking trip!

Sometimes you just want to hoist a pack on your back and set off into the wild. On Adventure Collection backpacking trips, you can explore Nepal, Bhutan, Africa, the American Southwest or a host of other destinations, in the company of expert guides and support staff who will make sure you get the most out of your experience. You’ll learn the fine art of treading softly and leaving no trace in the treasure-places you visit, and you’ll return with a stronger, surer sense of your world and of your place and possibilities in that world. Where can you go? Alaska, New Zealand, India, Wyoming, Patagonia — what’s calling you?

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