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Case Study: Chest Injury with Fall

The Setting You are on a climbing trip in Red Rocks, Nevada. You’ve spent the last week dialing in your climbing, swapping beta with new friends at the crag and soaking up the desert sun. Today, you decide to take a break from long routes and focus on bouldering.  You’re chalking up, eyeing a new…

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Slate: What Counts as Wilderness?
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Slate: What Counts as Wilderness?

When you hear the word wilderness, what do you picture? Vast woods full of leaping stags? A mountain rearing up…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
BioLite: Why Remaining Calm is the Most Important Preparedness Tool
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BioLite: Why Remaining Calm is the Most Important Preparedness Tool

When was the last time you attended a class focused on scaling a mountain face or navigating rapids? For most…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
Polymath Mag: My Journey to Becoming Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Through NOLS
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Polymath Mag: My Journey to Becoming Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Through NOLS

Ever since my cousin told me about his NOLS expeditions that he took in high school I had been interested…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
County 10: NOLS Celebrates 50 Years with 10th Mountain Division Living History Display
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County 10: NOLS Celebrates 50 Years with 10th Mountain Division Living History Display

As part of the NOLS 50th Anniversary Celebration, the 10th Mountain Division is hosting a Living History Display featuring the…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
RMFI: Staffer Travels to the NOLS 50th Anniversary Party
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RMFI: Staffer Travels to the NOLS 50th Anniversary Party

This month, on October 8th through 10th, the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with an…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
County 10: NOLS Celebrated 50th with Reminiscing, Parties, Workshops, Planning
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County 10: NOLS Celebrated 50th with Reminiscing, Parties, Workshops, Planning

Fifty years ago on March 4, 1965, Judge Jack Nicholas and Paul Petzoldt signed papers establishing the National Outdoor Leadership…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
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Casper Star Tribune: Congrats to NOLS on 50 Years

Students learn to be adaptable and resourceful. They learn to persevere and to pursue goals doggedly. Those are life skills…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
KDLY/KOVE: NOLS Holds Welcome & Opening Event
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KDLY/KOVE: NOLS Holds Welcome & Opening Event

John Ganns, Director of the Lander based National Outdoor Leadership School, welcomed over seven-hundred returning NOLS graduates , former staff,…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read
Sierra Club Radio: An American Ascent, the first African American expedition to take on Denali
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Sierra Club Radio: An American Ascent, the first African American expedition to take on Denali

Photographer Hudson Henry on the new documentary An American Ascent, which covers the first African American expedition to take on…
NOLS February 2020 1 min read

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