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Evan Horn Packrafting is the latest technique for exploring Alaska's deep wilderness. Paxon Lake ALASKA BACKPACKING An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every sense, allowing you to explore beautiful landscapes in the Talkeetna Mountains, the Alaska Range, or Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, where the trees disappear and the land stretches into alpine tundra plains with a backdrop of rugged and heavily eroded mountains. Up here where it’s still light at midnight, you’ll follow the tracks of the seasonal caribou migration. How to hike on tundra; identify the birds, flowers, wildlife, and plants of the North Country; and keep warm, dry, and happy even when it’s wet are all part of your backcountry curriculum. You’ll become a seasoned wilderness traveler, learning how to read a map, navigate off trail, and scan the horizon for grizzly bears, black bears, moose, wolves, and Dall sheep. DETAILS Age and Length: 16 & Over • Average age: 19 • Duration: 30 days 16 & 17 Only • Duration: 30 days Tuition: $4,110 Optional College Credit: 2 hours Environmental Ethics, 2 hours Leadership Techniques, 2 hours Skills Practicum Dates: page 106 NEW ALASKA BACKPACKING AND PACKRAFTING Packrafting is at the forefront of Alaskan exploration and NOLS is right there with it. Designed for students 18-and-over, this 30-day land- and water-based expedition uses packrafts—singleperson inflatable rafts weighing four pounds each—to open up some of the world’s most remote country that would be otherwise inaccessible to overland travel. With this equipment and the help of experienced instructor teams, you will navigate the rivers of the eastern Alaska Range and the Talkeetna Mountains that would otherwise be obstacles on a traditional backpacking course. On this self-sustained monthlong expedition you’ll learn how to live comfortably in the backcountry, hike through mountains and across tundra, and paddle your packraft through Class II rapids. You might even see Dall sheep, moose, caribou, wolves, and black and grizzly bears along the way. DETAILS Age and Length: 18 & Over • Duration: 30 days Tuition: $4,770 Optional College Credit: 2 hours Environmental Ethics, 2 hours Leadership Techniques, 2 hours Skills Practicum Dates: page 106 60 www.nols.edu • (800) 710-NOLS • admissions@nols.edu
“AT NOLS IT'S ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY, IT'S ALL ABOUT INNOVATION, IT'S ALL ABOUT EXPLORING THE EDGES OF ONE'S ABILITIES. ”S. Tori McClure; Author, Adventurer, and President of Spaulding University; Semester in Alaska '85, Semester in Kenya '86 See more of Tori at www.nols.tv ALASKA TC Rammelkamp TC Rammelkamp Learn the value of a bluebird day as you navigate Arctic rivers. Noatak River, Gates of the Arctic National Park Scouting the right path through pristine and fragile tundra is the perfect place for students to practice their Leave No Trace skills. Brooks Range BROOKS RANGE BACKPACKING AND RIVER The Brooks Range is one of the wildest mountain ranges in North America. Stretched across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle, this Land of the Midnight Sun is defi ned by big open river bottoms, steep mountain slopes, and expansive tundra. After flying into the area with an experienced Alaskan bush pilot, you’ll spend the first 10 days of this extended Arctic expedition on foot, moving across the tundra and up braided river channels. Then you’ll swap boots and backpacks for folding canoes and touring kayaks for a three-week river trip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or Gates of the Arctic National Park, one of North America’s largest mountain-ringed river basins. The mountains are spectacular and rugged and the rivers flow through wilderness for hundreds of miles. It’s possible to see Dall sheep, moose, caribou, wolves, black and grizzly bears, and lynx as you travel. BROOKS RANGE 23-AND-OVER BACKPACKING North of the Arctic Circle and aptly dubbed Land of the Midnight Sun, much of the landscape in the Brooks Range lies above tree line and elevations range from sea level to over 9,000 feet. Designed especially for students ages 23 and older, this 14-day backpacking course packs in backcountry travel lessons in the steep shale mountains and expansive tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Philip Smith Mountains. This is not a guided tour. You’ll learn the skills in these two weeks needed to travel in a mountain environment long after your course ends. DETAILS Age and Length: 23 & Over • Average age: 36 • Duration: 14 days Tuition: $4,350 Optional College Credit: 2 hours Skills Practicum Dates: page 107 DETAILS Age and Length: 18 & Over • Average age: 23 • Duration: 40 days Tuition: $7,400 Optional College Credit: 2 hours Environmental Ethics, 2 hours Leadership Techniques, 4 hours Skills Practicum Dates: page 106 61
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“AT<br />
<strong>NOLS</strong> IT'S ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY, IT'S ALL ABOUT INNOVATION,<br />
IT'S ALL ABOUT EXPLORING THE EDGES OF ONE'S ABILITIES. ”S.<br />
Tori McClure; Author, Adventurer, and President of Spaulding University; Semester in Alaska '85, Semester in Kenya '86<br />
See more of Tori at www.nols.tv<br />
ALASKA<br />
TC Rammelkamp<br />
TC Rammelkamp<br />
Learn the value of a bluebird day as you navigate Arctic<br />
rivers. Noatak River, Gates of the Arctic National Park<br />
Scouting the right path through pristine and fragile tundra is the perfect place for students <strong>to</strong> practice their Leave No<br />
Trace skills. Brooks Range<br />
BROOKS RANGE BACKPACKING AND RIVER<br />
The Brooks Range is one of the wildest mountain ranges in North<br />
America. Stretched across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle,<br />
this Land of the Midnight Sun is defi ned by big open river bot<strong>to</strong>ms,<br />
steep mountain slopes, and expansive tundra. After flying<br />
in<strong>to</strong> the area with an experienced Alaskan bush pilot, you’ll spend<br />
the first 10 days of this extended Arctic expedition on foot, moving<br />
across the tundra and up braided river channels. Then you’ll<br />
swap boots and backpacks for folding canoes and <strong>to</strong>uring kayaks<br />
for a three-week river trip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<br />
or Gates of the Arctic National Park, one of North America’s largest<br />
mountain-ringed river basins. The mountains are spectacular<br />
and rugged and the rivers flow through wilderness for hundreds of<br />
miles. It’s possible <strong>to</strong> see Dall sheep, moose, caribou, wolves, black<br />
and grizzly bears, and lynx as you travel.<br />
BROOKS RANGE 23-AND-OVER BACKPACKING<br />
North of the Arctic Circle and aptly dubbed Land of the Midnight<br />
Sun, much of the landscape in the Brooks Range lies above tree line<br />
and elevations range from sea level <strong>to</strong> over 9,000 feet. Designed<br />
especially for students ages 23 and older, this 14-day backpacking<br />
c<strong>our</strong>se packs in backcountry travel lessons in the steep shale mountains<br />
and expansive tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<br />
and the Philip Smith Mountains. This is not a guided <strong>to</strong>ur. You’ll<br />
learn the skills in these two weeks needed <strong>to</strong> travel in a mountain<br />
environment long after y<strong>our</strong> c<strong>our</strong>se ends.<br />
DETAILS<br />
Age and Length: 23 & Over • Average age: 36 • Duration: 14 days<br />
Tuition: $4,350<br />
Optional College Credit: 2 h<strong>our</strong>s Skills Practicum<br />
Dates: page 107<br />
DETAILS<br />
Age and Length: 18 & Over • Average age: 23 • Duration: 40 days<br />
Tuition: $7,400<br />
Optional College Credit: 2 h<strong>our</strong>s Environmental Ethics, 2 h<strong>our</strong>s Leadership Techniques,<br />
4 h<strong>our</strong>s Skills Practicum<br />
Dates: page 106<br />
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