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.
