Instructor in Training

NOLS Board of Trustees Meeting is under Way

A Good One

Beantown

Bus Stalwart Ashley Lewis Hangs Up Her Filter Socks

Discount Equipment Packages Coming Soon to NOLS Rocky Mountain

Michael Cheek Named Major Gifts Officer

Interns Make Marketing Go!

Great Week for the NOLS Bus

NOLS Partner Featured in WSJ

NOLS Featured in the Spring Orvis Flyfishing Catalog

If we have learned anything over fifty-four years of NOLS experiences, it’s that the landscapes we operate on speak for themselves, if we can get people out there to experience them.

Looking back, finding my sense of place was in part learning to take the beauty around me and reflecting it back to myself, a gift from the Arctic wilderness and NOLS that I get to take with me into my frontcountry life. I’m making a promise to myself to use it.

Find a series of jumping-off points to help decide if the outdoor industry is right for you, where you might fit within it, and how to find your first job.

I ditched my phone, deciduous landscapes, and research papers to embark on the wildest thing I could think of: a NOLS Semester in the Southwest. I was nervous I wouldn’t be “good at” NOLS, but knew I wanted a life change more than perfection.

At the beginning of my journey of signing up for my NOLS Semester in Patagonia, dreaming of the landscape in the Andes fueled my excitement. I thought about the incredible mountain vistas and sleeping under the stars every night. I thought about the miles I’d travel on foot, carrying everything I needed on my back.…

A few ways wilderness medicine training can be adapted to provide first aid that might be needed at a protest.

The more that time separates me from my NOLS Expedition with STEP in the summer of 2013, the more I find myself reflecting on the ephemeral 21 days that I spent in Prince William Sound. Preserved in the haze inherent to all fleeting memories, I remember the physical exhaustion, the arduous and cold days and…

This spring I spent 10 days on a NOLS rock climbing seminar for instructors. This was my first seminar with NOLS and I didn’t know what to expect from the other instructors who would be my coursemates. Mainly, I worried that I wouldn't know as much as everyone else, and that I’d always be working…