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Aaron began working in-town for NOLS in 1998 and started field instructing for the school in 2000. He primarily serves as a glacier mountaineering ...
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Abby believes the power of a NOLS course is connecting to wild places and education in ways that open possibilities for people to change the world ...
Originally from El Paso, TX and part of a large family, I joined the military straight out of high school initiating a series of events that brough...
After graduating from an Atlanta, Ga. High School in 2002, Adam picked up an extraordinarily heavy backpack for the first time and marched through ...
Originally hailing from the Peach State, Adam began his westward migration towards larger mountains during college when he pursued work in outdoor ...
Originally from New Hampshire, and currently living in Los Angeles, Scooter has been working in the outdoor education field since the late 90's. Du...
Aimee often has trouble deciding whether to play outside or stay indoors with a stack of good books. Originally from suburban Chicago, she earned h...
Aiyana began climbing when she was 14 years old in the Pacific Northwest, and spent her 20s guiding rafts, instructing Outward Bound courses, and l...
Born in Australia, where he grew up sailing off the beaches of Adelaide, Alan is an '85 NOLS Alaska Semester grad who started as an instructor in '...
Born and raised in Hawaii, Aleson made her journey across the Pacific to Lander WY in 2014. She spends most her days nerding out about front end de...
Alex's dad was on an early NOLS course led by Paul Petzoldt in 1970, so he knew growing up that NOLS was in his future. He took a student course o...
Alice gets her fill of wilderness medical field experience as a mountaineering and whitewater instructor who has taught extensively at NOLS’ high l...
Allie started her career as an outdoor educator at age sixteen, as a summer camp counselor in beautiful western Washington. After graduating from t...
Alyssa first came to NOLS in 2013 on an Outdoor Educator Course out of Lander, Wyoming. It wasn't long before she decided to leave a big-city life ...
Formerly a commercial fisher-lady in Alaska, a fisheries technician in Yellowstone, and ski patroller in Colorado, Amanda began teaching mountainee...
Amanda grew up in the Bitterroot Valley of Western Montana. She spent most of her free time adventure seeking in the outdoors. During college, she ...
Amber graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Movement Science and has since explored her own movement across the country and to...
Amy is a philanthropic consultant who works with foundations on strategic planning, program design, field and nonprofit capacity assessment, and gr...
Amy had an itch to explore the great outdoors ever since she was a youngster. She is a NOLS New Zealand semester grad and has been hooked on the ou...
Amy discovered her passion for the outdoors while leading backpacking trips at a summer camp in New Hampshire during college. After college she li...
Amy has been teaching community and workplace CPR and first aid classes for over 12 years along the Front Range of Colorado. She got the teaching b...
Amy Waeschle spent 5 years working as a field Amy Waeschleinstructor for NOLS and other outdoor programs before going back to school for a Master's...
Auny is a seasoned business strategist and marketing executive with over 25 years of experience and a proven track record of helping to start and g...
Andrew is an alumnus of the Outdoor Educator Semester ’07 and the Rocky Mountain Instructor Course ’14. He leads hiking, rock climbing, and sea kay...
Andrew learned the value of living simply, in a small community, on his NOLS Southwest student semester. He believes in the power that outdoor expe...
Andy has been working for NOLS since 1992 as a field instructor and since 2001 as a wilderness medicine instructor. He is known to state repetitive...
Andy started his NOLS journey as a student on an Outdoor Educator sea kayaking and hiking course in Alaska in 2010. He later completed an Alaska In...
Anna Haegel is the NOLS Rocky Mountain Program Manager in Lander, WY. She got started with NOLS when she did a student semester in the Rockies in 2...
Anna ran away from the circus (where she practiced flying trapeze and contortion) for a less sedentary lifestyle as a NOLS Wilderness Medicine and ...
Anna started NOLS work as a horse packer at Three Peaks Ranch. In 2007 she completed her Instructor Course concentrating mostly on wilderness, cany...
Anne grew up playing in and on many of MN’s 10,000 lakes. During college, her career plans pivoted from neuroscience to marine ecology following a ...
Anne has enjoyed exploring the outdoors since before her first backpacking trip in a WV wilderness when she was 13. For the past 30 years she has w...
Native to the seven hills of Cincinnati, Annie made her way Westward and has never looked back. When asked “mountains or water?” Annie always chose...
Ari came to NOLS from a background in search & rescue, as well as outdoor education and guiding, and a little experience as a medical interpreter i...
Åsa has a teaching degree from Uppsala University in Sweden and taught WFR Physical Education and Swedish at Junior High School in Sweden for eight...
Ashley Drake is a proud Oregonian who moved to the town of Lander, Wyoming to work for NOLS in 2015. Ashley is the Operations Supervisor for NOLS C...
Ashley started with NOLS in 1998 after completing the River Instructor Course in Vernal, UT. As a field instructor, he works sea kayaking, hiking, ...
Atila has held various administrator jobs at NOLS from Program Manager at the southern NOLS Patagonia base in Magallanes and in NOLS Brazil from 20...
Audrey currently lives in Albuquerque, NM but loves to travel and explore new places whenever she can. She became hooked on outdoor adventure and e...
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