Setting a NOLS Record

Meet Kevin. Although he looks like an average NOLS student, many of us knew he was an extraordinary student the from the first time he laid foot at NOLS Rocky Mountain. Kevin is currently a student on a Fall Semester in the Rockies spending a gap year between high school and college. Originally from Wilton, CT, Kevin has been backpacking and making his way through canyons for the past few months- all while constantly wearing an orange safety vest. Fellow students comment that he wears it sleeping and taking showers, and it isn’t rare to spot him walking through Lander showing off his look. It’s a record in the making.

Kevin is currently signed up for two more NOLS courses after completion of his semester this December. He will be taking a Backcountry Snowboarding course in January at our Teton Valley base, followed by a Semester on the Borders starting in February.

If Kevin chooses to accept, I challenge him to continue to wear the vest for the remainder of his time at NOLS. It won’t be easy – it will take self-awareness, tolerance for adversity, and true vision and action.