New Alumni Trip Completed: Photography & Fly Fishing

August 19, 2009

Click for more photos A band of intrepid NOLS grads and family members recently completed a new alumni trip in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. This new trip’s “focus” (pardon the pun) was on improving participants’ travel photography and fly fishing skills.

The Winds are the perfect classroom for photography and fishing— the scenery is consistently stunning and the fish are voracious.Click for more photos

Not only was this a new type of trip, but we also believe it’s the first time a computer has gone into the backcountry with NOLS! That’s right, with the help of llama support, we schlepped a 17″ MacBook into the mountains to allow us to download, compare and critique photos each night.

Aside from the fun, education, challenging weather and camaraderie, participants will also receive a completed photo book with a selection of everyone’s best photos. Wow, great times, plenty of fish, great family memories and a coffee table book to boot!

(Photos courtesy of Brad Christensen)

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Rich Brame

Rich Brame came to NOLS in the 80's as a Fall Semester in the Rockies student and worked his first NOLS course at Wind Cave National Park in 1984. Since then, he's worked varied NOLS trips and courses on five continents—with a few more on the way. Rich does some frontcountry shenanigans for NOLS, too. He's headed up NOLS' public policy, research, LNT, Yukon programs and most recently in the Alumni Relations Department.