Leadership Training
If your travel goal is to learn in the classroom of the wild – to pick up essential skills about leadership, planning and decision-making that you can apply to your everyday life – we have a series of trips designed with you in mind. From Alaska to Patagonia, Australia to India, our specially designed wilderness teaching trips impart a wide range of wilderness survival principles and skills, and forge horizon-expanding friendships and life-enriching memories along the way.
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This course is designed for 14- and 15-year-olds who want to climb a peak and guide a paddle raft all... [more]
Duration: 28 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Kayak Prince William Sound: you'll learn paddle skills and how to live comfortably and responsibly in the backcountry while floating... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- July
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll backcountry travel through the Talkeetna Mountains or just east of Denali Natl Park while learning how to eat, sleep... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll backcountry travel through the Talkeetna Mountains or just east of Denali Natl Park while learning how to eat, sleep... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Kayak the SE Alaska Archipelago: learn paddling & backcountry living while floating above the whales, porpoises & sea otters of... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore some of Alaska's most rugged landscapes. You'll learn mountaineering and how to travel in harsh conditions while moving though... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Become a backcountry telemark skier. You'll perfect skills at Idaho's Grand Targhee Resort and then spend two nights in a... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
Activity types:
- Skiing & Snowboarding
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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The pace is gradual in the beginning, as you travel through lush, old-growth forests and tangled alder thickets, and it... [more]
Duration: 31 days
Months offered:
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Travel over the rock, snow and ice of beautiful British Columbia. You'll explore glacial plateaus, long fjords & peaks encountering... [more]
Duration: 31 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore some of Alaska's most rugged landscapes. You'll learn mountaineering and how to travel in harsh conditions while moving though... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore some of Alaska's most rugged landscapes. You'll learn mountaineering and how to travel in harsh conditions while moving though... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Kayak the SE Alaska Archipelago, learning paddle skills and responsible backcountry living while floating among whales, porpoises & sea otters... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- June
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Become a backcountry telemark skier. You'll perfect skills at Idaho's Grand Targhee Resort and then spend two nights in a... [more]
Duration: 12 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
Activity types:
- Skiing & Snowboarding
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore the Sea of Cortez in a kayak. You'll perfect paddle skills and discover elusive aquatic life and beautiful landscapes... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- February
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll learn how to live comfortably and responsibly in the backcountry while hiking over vast arctic tundra, trekking through towering... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- August
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll learn how to live comfortably and responsibly in Alaska's Brooks Range while hiking vast arctic tundra. [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- August
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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After learning the horse care at NOLS Three Peaks Ranch, and honing your grooming, guiding, packing & Wilderness First Aid... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- June
- August
Activity types:
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Where better to learn mountaineering than the N. Cascades. Travel rock, snow and ice, and develop leadership and risk management... [more]
Duration: 17 days
Months offered:
- August
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore beautiful Yukon wilderness on land & water. Hike through forests and tundra, canoe down whitewater rivers and discover elusive... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Hiking for 30 days through Wyoming's Absaroka Range, renown for wildlife, you'll learn to navigate with a map, cook in... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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2 disciplines in one backcountry course! Hike through Alaska's Wrangell-St. Ilias Natl Park, the Talkeetnas or the Chugach Range and... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Develop skills to lead an expedition. Backpacking Wrangell-St. Elias Natl Park or the Taalkeetna Mtns and living in the backcountry... [more]
Duration: 24 days
Months offered:
- June
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Perfect your backcountry boarding skills at Idaho's Grand Targhee Resort, then head to the Snake River Range to sleep, eat,... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
Activity types:
- Skiing & Snowboarding
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Sail the coastline of the Baja CA Peninsula. Perfect your navigation skills and discover elusive aquatic life while learning to... [more]
Duration: 22 days
Months offered:
- January
- October
Activity types:
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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A comprehensive ocean exploration: kayak & sail on longboats and keelboats along the Baja Peninsula while discovering marine life, earning... [more]
Duration: 73 days
Months offered:
- February
- October
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Explore the Sea of Cortez in a kayak. You'll perfect paddle skills and discover elusive aquatic life and beautiful landscapes... [more]
Duration: 22 days
Months offered:
- January
- March
- October
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll learn how to live comfortably and responsibly in Alaska's Brooks Range while hiking vast arctic tundra and paddling the... [more]
Duration: 40 days
Months offered:
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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If you're a NOLS grad, consider ascending the continent's highest peak. You'll travel responsibly in the harshest of conditions while... [more]
Duration: 34 days
Months offered:
- June
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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The most comprehensive exploration of Baja. For 78 days you'll hike mountain ranges of the peninsula, sail & kayak its... [more]
Duration: 78 days
Months offered:
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Enjoy the most comprehensive backcountry exploration of New Zealand. You may hike, canoe, kayak and sail through the Southern Alps,... [more]
Duration: 75 days
Months offered:
- September
- October
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You might hike, cave, climb & paddle the Rio Grande, Gila Wilderness, Carlsbad Caverns & Cochise Stronghold while earning backcountry... [more]
Duration: 88 days
Months offered:
- September
Activity types:
- Climbing
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Wilderness Medicine
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Backpack New Mexico's historic Gila Range, with canyons previously inhabited by Mimbres & Apache cultures, snow-covered peaks and elusive wildlife,... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- April
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore N. India's rugged, beautiful backcountry. You'll interact with local communities, practice responsible travel and learn to plan & lead... [more]
Duration: 40 days
Months offered:
- April
- September
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Through discussions and exercises on the trail, this seminar uses mountains and culture as powerful metaphors to expand and deepen... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
- March
- October
- November
- April
Activity types:
- Leadership Training
- Mountaineering
- Trekking
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You and fellow 14 & 15-year-olds cook, camp, sleep, navigate & work as a team while backpacking through the Wyoming... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Cook, sleep, lead, foster teamwork and practice Leave No Trace principles while hiking through Idaho's Beaverheads and/or Lemhi ranges and... [more]
Duration: 28 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Explore Wyoming's wilderness with minimal gear. After stuffing your pack with the lightest, barest essentials, you'll travel quickly through beautiful... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- July
- August
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Learn to fly fish in backcountry Wyoming. After developing fishing skills in a two-day seminar, you'll put them to use... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Fishing
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Discover backcountry Washington! Youll travel through Olympic Nat'l Park or the Pasayten Wilderness while learning to eat, sleep and lead... [more]
Duration: 31 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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On this outdoor educator course you’ll get a variety of skills - backpacking, mountaineering and rock climbing - and experience... [more]
Duration: 31 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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On this outdoor educator course you’ll get a variety of skills - backpacking, mountaineering and rock climbing - and experience... [more]
Duration: 24 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Develop the skills to lead your own expedition. You'll observe the beautiful landscapes and elusive wildlife of Washington while learning... [more]
Duration: 9 days
Months offered:
- June
- August
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Hike and fly fish in rugged, beautiful, untouched Chile. You'll travel through Patagonia's Aisen region and learn to fly fish... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- February
Activity types:
- Fishing
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Explore Chile's rugged, beautiful icefields. You'll learn the techniques of glacier mountaineering and heavy-weather camping and discover ecosystems while living... [more]
Duration: 34 days
Months offered:
- January
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Master 2 disciplines in one course: climbing, leading, belaying, placing anchors, tying knots, rappelling and managing risks in Wyoming, then... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
Activity types:
- Climbing
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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With climbing techniques, rope systems, anchors, rappelling, belaying, risk management, protective placement and the skills to travel safely in the... [more]
Duration: 21 days
Months offered:
- July
Activity types:
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Backpacking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Learning to live, guide, manage risks, foster teamwork & teach while trekking through backcountry Wyoming is the best way to... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Wilderness Medicine
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Pursue a career in outdoor ed! Learning to eat, sleep, guide, manage risks, foster teamwork and teach everything from natural... [more]
Duration: 23 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Climbing
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Become an expert outdoor educator. After traveling through varied terrain, learning myriad skills, earning backcountry certifications and developing teaching tools,... [more]
Duration: 94 days
Months offered:
- February
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Wilderness Medicine
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Leadership Training
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You'll hike the Pindari and Milam (Johar) valleys, raft down the Ganges, become Wilderness First Aid certified, and discover the... [more]
Duration: 80 days
Months offered:
- March
- August
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
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Enjoy the most comprehensive exploration of the Amazon. You'll hike and canoe through one of the world's most diverse ecosystems... [more]
Duration: 80 days
Months offered:
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Wilderness Medicine
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
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Enjoy the most comprehensive exploration of the Pacific NW. For 77 days you'll hike, climb and sail your way through... [more]
Duration: 77 days
Months offered:
- August
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Outdoor Skills
- Leadership Training
- Wilderness Medicine
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Enjoy the most comprehensive exploration of the Yukon. For 76 days you'll learn to live safely and comfortably in the... [more]
Duration: 76 days
Months offered:
- June
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Enjoy the most comprehensive backcountry exploration of Australia. You may canoe, sea kayak and hike through the Drysdale River, Dampier... [more]
Duration: 75 days
Months offered:
- March
Activity types:
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Backpacking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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The most comprehensive exploration of Baja. For 78 days you'll hike mountain ranges of the peninsula, sail & kayak its... [more]
Duration: 78 days
Months offered:
- January
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Enjoy the most comprehensive backcountry exploration of New Zealand. You may hike, canoe, kayak and sail through the Southern Alps,... [more]
Duration: 75 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Sailing & Small Boats
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You can hike, cave, climb & paddle your way through the Rio Grande, Gila Wilderness, Carlsbad Caverns and Cochise Stronghold... [more]
Duration: 88 days
Months offered:
- January
- February
Activity types:
- Climbing
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Wilderness Medicine
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Become a winter expedition leader. You'll spend 19 days perfecting the art of snow shelters, practicing telemark and cross-country ski... [more]
Duration: 21 days
Months offered:
- January
Activity types:
- Skiing & Snowboarding
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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You'll develop skills: kayaking, rafting, rowing, wet exits & entries, eddy turns, ferries & peel-outs while learning comfortable and responsible... [more]
Duration: 16 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Travel Wyoming on a packhorse: learn to ride and care for your horse at Three Peaks Ranch, then explore the... [more]
Duration: 21 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
- August
Activity types:
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore the glaciers, snowfields & rocks of Wyoming. While safely traversing difficult terrain, like 13,804-foot Gannett Peak, you'll learn climbing... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Hiking for 30 days through Wyoming, you'll learn to navigate with a map, cook in the backcountry, rock climb, fly... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Hiking through Wyoming, you'll learn to navigate with a map, cook in the backcountry, rock climb, fly fish and lead... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- May
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Hiking through Wyoming's Wind River Mountains, you'll learn to navigate with a map, cook in the backcountry, rock climb, fly... [more]
Duration: 14 days
Months offered:
- July
- August
- September
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Don't wait to pursue an interest in the outdoors! Explore beautiful Wyoming while honing backcountry map, cooking, hiking, fishing, climbing,... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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In the most comprehensive course NOLS offers, you'll spend 135 days hiking, climbing, sea kayaking, learning Spanish, leading a student... [more]
Duration: 135 days
Months offered:
- October
Activity types:
- Mountaineering
- Backpacking
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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In this comprehensive immersion of the Sonoran Desert, you'll hike, kayak & climb through the Cochise Mtns, Galiuro and Gila... [more]
Duration: 135 days
Months offered:
- October
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Canoeing & Sea Kayaking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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Explore rugged Yukon wilderness: learn to travel responsibly in the backcountry and discover the tundra, permafrost, rivers, midnight sun, bear... [more]
Duration: 27 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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After backpacking through mountains of NE Whitehorse, paddling down the Hyland, Wolf or S. MacMillan rivers, and being safe &... [more]
Duration: 30 days
Months offered:
- June
- July
Activity types:
- White Water Rafting & Kayaking
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Leadership Training
- Outdoor Skills
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