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Instructor Roger Yim takes students down the Hart River, modeling paddling techniques and leadership skills on the water.
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NOLS Yukon Facts
Year Founded: 1999
Operating Season: June-Aug.
Location: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
In-town Staff: 7-8
Skills offered: Backpacking, Mountaineering, Canoeing

Fly well above the Lower 48 and enter a northern paradise of wild, technical rivers and sweeping tundra. You’ll find the Yukon Territory in the far northwest part of Canada, where it encompasses almost 500,000 square km of pure, untouched wilderness. Its sheer wildness begs exploration, and NOLS is happy to oblige.

As you jet north towards Whitehorse and the 60th parallel, you’ll have a bird’s eye view of some of the most wild and remote land left on the planet—the mountains and river valleys of our Yukon wilderness classroom.

During the summertime, the land explodes from its three months of darkness for an intense season of almost continuous daylight. The Yukon is also a Land of Midnight Sun, and you’ll experience its growing power first-hand. With these long days far away from summer crowds to explore the region’s stunning rivers and little-used mountain ranges, you’ll find yourself on a true international adventure without the hassle of visas and the challenges of language.

It’s a place with a unique outdoor culture not often found in this modern day. Canoeing, hiking, self-reliance and outdoor competence are the way of life up here. From our base in Whitehorse you’ll explore this broad land, living and learning in some of the more remote and pristine wilderness on the globe. Here in the northern birthplace of the Canadian Rockies, you’ll share the wild with caribou, bear, wolf, moose and migrating birds. You’ll paddle the rivers, walk the tundra plateaus, and explore boreal forest valleys and rushing mountain streams.

If you’re looking for remote, extended expeditions like no other, this is the place…

NOLS Yukon
If you're looking for remote, extended expeditions like no other, then NOLS Yukon is for you.
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  “There is a special learning that takes place in wilderness areas such as the Yukon. Such learning is not a part of a traditionally structured, academic classroom. It can only be found in the outdoors, in the wilderness beyond the rigid structure of academics.”

Robert Cullen
Yukon Outdoor Educator Course
2000
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