Issues, cleaning, and stocking OH MY!

Today I am here talking with our International Equipment Connoisseurs. The dream team came from all over the world to issue and help our students for their expeditions. In the issuing crew there is Tamara Prins coming from Melbourne, Australia, Gaurav Gongola flying from Ranikhet, India, and the issue room manager, Peter Gatundu, going on his tenth year at NOLS all the way from Narumoru, Kenya.

These three not only issue, de-issue, clean, stock, and repair, but they brighten up the issue room with their unique personalities as well. I went in the issue room today to ask what was their first experience with the National Outdoor Leadership School that got them where they are today?

“I was the intern at NOLS Mexico, working in the issue room, and I started in the Fall of 2006,” Tamara tells me. Gaurav was part of a NOLS route finding team in 2005 in India which helped set the routes today for our trips through India, and Peter was a student in NOLS Kenya Semester, through the NOLS East Africa branch, and he did that in 1995 and right after his trip was over he started to work in the issue room and has been doing it since. Good job Peter!

Photo taken by Dave Nathanson