updated on Monday, December 18, 2000
A Life on the Mend. Tim Richter's last conscious thought was that he was skiing fast, probably too fast. Dan Bergin, a graduate of a 1998 spring semester in the Rockies, was snowboarding as Richter shot past him and collided into a tree. Dan's NOLS semester had included a section on Wilderness First Aid. He was glad he had this training as he assessed the scene.
 Spring Semester in the Rockies. You will be able to create an education unlike anything you've ever experience by choosing from various combinations of the following sections: winter camping and skiing, rock climbing, caving, horsepacking, river travel, canyon, and wilderness first aid, and Wilderness First Responder certification.
- Follow a Fall Semester in the Rockies on-line
- Semester in East Africa. You'll learn about the wildlife, people and wilderness of East Africa as you live and travel and learn. The sections of your education will include mountain hiking, safari, coast exploration, and hiking.
- Semester in Baja. The NOLS Baja spring semester is so popular that NOLS is opening an additional section. More information.
- January Term Options. January Term at NOLS provides an opportunity to spend a month freed from the confines of the classroom, involved in a hands-on education dictated by reality, not a syllabus.
- Last Mountain Man? Not if He Can Help It by Jane Howard. Life magazine, December 19, 1969. "If I could choose somebody to be stranded with on a desert island, or to get me out of any dilemma from a flat tire to the charge of an enraged bull moose during a lightening storm, I would instantly and confidently ask for Paul Petzoldt."
- NOLS receives Backpacker Magazine's Silver Service Award: "NOLS, The gold standard of outdoor education."
- A Leap into the Unknown: Reflections on a summer spent in Alaska sea kayaking, mountain climbing and hiking across the Arctic tundra.
- Gringos across the Gulf: Two NOLS instructors cross the gulf of Mexico, from Baja to the mainland, in sea kayaks.
- NOLS Cookery: An updated and expanded edition of a classic guide to backcountry cooking. Whether you're new to cooking on the trail or a seasoned wilderness chef, you'll find helpful hints, ideas and information on: menu and ration planning, packaging, nutrition, fire preparation, stove and fuel use, open-fire cooking, Leave No Trace site maintenance, and 190 field-tested recipes.
- Employment Opportunities. The employment opportunities page offers a current list of job opportunities at NOLS.
- Preferred Retailers who will outfit our students to the minimum NOLS standards.
- NOLS School Store. Remember that unique gear you used on your NOLS course? Can't find even a close substitute? Now you can have the real thing.
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