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With input from Shana Tarter, assistant director of NOLS Wilderness medicine, Outside’s Gear Guy discusses the advantages of purchasing a premade first aid kit.

NOLS Instructor Josie McKee was recognized as one of the recipients of Grit & Rock’s 2018 First Ascent Award, a grant that supports mountain exploration and first ascents by women.

Outside’s Gear Guy gets some tips from NOLS instructor Jared Spaulding on the best practices and gear for pooping in the woods.

In January 2018, seven students in University of Texas’ Business Honors Program embarked on a custom NOLS course in Arizona.

The film An American Ascent chronicles the journey of Expedition Denali, the first all- African American team to climb Denali, the highest peak in the U.S.

MHYC alum uses AmeriCorps award to complete a NOLS Wilderness First Responder course.

In honor of Black History Month, Glacierhub recognized Expedition Denali, the first all-African American team of climbers to summit the highest peak in the U.S.

Members of NASA’s class of 2013 give Men’s Health the inside scoop on their training, which includes customized NOLS courses.

The Wind River Visitors Council recommends NOLS Wind River Wilderness courses as a top “survival holiday” choice closer to home.

NOLS field staffing director Marco Johnson offers Outside’s “Gear Guy,” Joe Jackson, some tips on keeping camp kitchens clean.

My recent work in nutrition focused on individuals taking part in a 3-4 month outdoor leadership course run by NOLS.

We used an approach, starting quite recently in the year 2000 or so, where we adopted the outdoor leadership models of NOLS.

Changes loom near remote Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It’s a rough region of 1,000-foot cliffs and canyons, and two wild rivers, the Green and the Yampa.

The course, led by instructors from NOLS and a fourth-year medical resident from Harvard, also introduced them to wilderness medicine.

I spoke with Marco Johnson, who’s been teaching wilderness skills and first aid as the field staffing director at NOLS in Lander, Wyoming.

NOLS will bring a series of eight independent films to the big screen for this year's Exploration Film Tour at Ohio State University.

Thrown from a raft in Grand Canyon’s Lava Falls, Tim Cahill was trapped underwater. His heart stopped for several minutes. He decided to try Lava again.

“The classic behavior when you get lost is to speed up,” said Jamie O’Donnell, a field instructor with NOLS, a nonprofit based in Wyoming.

Recreation continues to play an important and growing role in Wyoming’s economy, according to a report released July 26 by the Outdoor Industry Association.

Tarter said she’s seen two other total solar eclipses in her life but she chose to see this one in Wyoming because her daughter works for the NOLS in Lander.

A week into her NOLS class in the wilderness, Katherine Boehrer experienced the biggest shock of the trip, at dinnertime. "They made this chocolate cake."

To learn how to safely ford a river, we called Marco Johnson, a NOLS field instructor who for over 30 years has traveled the globe teaching wilderness courses.

When the Iraq combat veteran Andrew Collins realized every time he felt lost, or the noise grew louder in his head, he grabbed his backpack and headed outside.

A guy who’s required to know all of them is John Gans, the executive director of NOLS, which teaches survival skills, risk management, and leadership.