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Adversity in kenya checking in on NOLs friends and family

BY MEREDITH HAAS, NOLS EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

hile Kenya has a reputation for stability amidst Luyah, and other smaller tribes, and supporters of impacted the region, especially for those who work for Wits turbulent neighbors—Somalia, Sudan, and the ruling Party of National Unity, who are mainly local outfitters, KG says that tourism security is good Uganda, who have endured years of civil unrest—it Kikuyu. “For much of Kenya’s history, many felt that and shouldn’t deter potential visitors. recently grabbed the world’s attention after the presi - the Kikuyu benefited more politically and economically Lastly, Kafuna indicates that Batian’s View saw a dential elections on December 27, 2007, when charges of than other groups,” said Roberts. decline in student numbers. “We were not directly vote rigging led to a sudden rise in violence. More than International pressure for resolution resulted in a affected here at Batian’s View, except for the loss of 1,000 Kenyans were killed and hundreds of thousands power sharing agreement that both parties signed in business since most of our programs involve school were driven from their homes. In light of this political February 2008. The formulation of a new coalition groups,” he said. “The school calendar was completely turmoil and regional unrest, many NOLS East Africa government is hoped to help ease tribal disputes. disrupted and so we had a lot of cancellations. We alumni have asked about the NOLS community still Goodwin says it has already calmed many of the prob - have certainly gone through a very traumatic period connected with that area. lems and that people are hopeful. in the history of our nation.” Elizabeth Goodwin, NOLS grad and spouse of “Everybody is trying to tolerate adversity,” says former NOLS East Africa director Fred Roberts, said Ojaji. “It’s one of those things you take away from a that she was in Kenya for the worst of it. She and While Kenya has a reputation NOLS course and it stays with you.” Roberts purchased the NOLS facility after it closed in for stability amidst its turbulent 2003 and now run it as an experiential education center While NOLS no longer operates in Africa, many alumni known as Batian’s View. “Most of Central province neighbors...it recently grabbed and staff have a profound connection with this amazing and the Mt. Kenya region were relatively calm, but what the world’s attention after land. “The course, the people, my instructors, and the was happening throughout Kenya greatly concerned the presidential elections on wilderness changed my life,” said NOLS Executive Director us and impacted all of Kenya,” she said. John Gans, reflecting on his experience as a semester student Much of the most recent violence took place in the December 27, 2007, when in Kenya in 1979. Rift Valley and some parts of Coast province and NOLS East Africa was founded in 1974 and based Nairobi. “Some of the worst violence did occur in for - charges of vote rigging led to a in Naru Moru, near Mt. Kenya and north of Nairobi. mer NOLS operating areas,” said Peter Kafuna, who NOLS operated in Kenya for 29 years, giving students a had instructed for NOLS and now teaches at Batian’s sudden rise in violence. More View. “The worst affected was Nakuru, a town that than 1,000 Kenyans were killed rare glimpse into the wild lands of Africa with a unique courses used to pass through on our way to and from cultural experience. In 2003, the NOLS Board of Trustees Lake Nakuru National Park. Narok was also another and hundreds of thousands decided that the region’s political and social future was town badly affected, which used to be our stopping were driven from their homes. too uncertain to continue to enroll students and NOLS point before heading out to Maasai Mara or Loita hills.” East Africa closed. Charles Ojaji, a NOLS instructor from Kenya This decision affected many members of the NOLS who now resides in Wyoming and works at the Cheyenne “I believe this coalition is going to hold for a community that dedicated years to the NOLS mission Regional Medical Center, said that no one was expect - while,” said Kafuna, adding that the challenge that lies and program in Kenya. “I have developed friendships ahead is returning displaced people to their homes. ing such an uprising. “It caught everyone by surprise, spanning decades and grown immeasurably from contacts “Homes were completely destroyed during the violence even the people involved,” he said. “They didn’t think with Kenyan staff and alumni. The people and place it’d go that far.” and in some areas neighbors are still showing open have touched me deeply and were of significant influence What had started as a political dispute quickly hostility. This is one issue that will really test the stability as we made this decision,” said Gans. turned into violence along ethnic lines. “The violence of the coalition government.” Many NOLS East Africa staff members have continued was among conflicting tribes over power and land.” Another focus in rebuilding this region is on the working in the wilderness education field, both in Kenya said James “KG” Kagambi, a Kenyan native and NOLS tourism industry, which accounts for 15 percent of the instructor, explaining that Kenya has over a dozen tribes Kenyan economy. The economic impacts on tourism as and in the United States. Many work at Batian’s View and that elections can dictate which tribes are benefited. a result of the recent violence were substantial—revenues while others continue to work for NOLS. Ethnic clashes stirred between supporters of the dropped 54 percent in the first quarter of 2008, accord - For more information about the recent violence in Kenya Orange Democratic Movement, who are mainly Luo, ing to Reuters . Though a decline in tourism has greatly and how to help, visit www.kenyaredcross.org. 4 T wh rese o f resc R P C enough its Breath: BY Don’t Wil l s k place P TO ich W ar ue hands-oly B. Re A. 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ISSU E ROOM

NOLS Alaska & Yukon In polar and sub-polar regions, the effects of climate SUSTAINABILITY change will be pronounced. Already, per decade, there UPDATE has been a five- to six-day increase in the duration of snow-free days for over thirty years as the permafrost melts and releases methane gas, which has 20 times the warming influence of carbon dioxide. Additionally, reduced snowcover and glacial retreat is likely to lead to a drying of ponds and wetlands in the polar regions, affecting various migrating species.

NOLS Southwest The Sonoran Desert has the highest relative productiv - BY JEN LAMB, NOLS PUBLIC POLICY DIRECTOR ity of all North American deserts, and many perennial The results of our schoolwide sustainability audit are plants in the area are susceptible to modest changes. in! Pure Strategies, the consulting firm that performed Predicted droughts, interrupted by sharp increases in the assessment (www.purestrategies.com), visited precipitation delivered through high-intensity storms, Lander in late February to present their results and rec - will stress and kill many native plant species. This will ommendations to help NOLS reduce its environmental The Changing open the door to exotic plant invasions, which will be footprint around the globe. predisposed to fire. CARBON EMISSIONS Faces of NOLS A significant component of NOLS’ environmental NOLS Mexico footprint is directly related to our use of fossil fuels Classrooms: The coastal ecology that is the pride of Baja California and the resulting carbon emissions. About 50 percent of this is attributable to ground transportation, will likely see noticeable changes over the coming 30 percent is associated with electricity use, and the Effects of Climate Change decades. Sea level rise could have negative impacts on the balance is related to our use of natural gas, propane, coast, affecting storm cycles, leading to the saliniza - white gas, and heating oil. BY AARON BANNON, NOLS WILDERNESS tion of groundwater, and negatively impacting biodi - Geographically, our emissions break down as ADVOCACY COORDINATOR versity. By the year 2050, scientists predict a loss of follows: 30% are generated by NOLS Rocky Mountain, 8% to 26% of mammal species, 5% to 8% of bird which makes sense when you consider that roughly 35 hough there’s still much that can be done to alleviate percent of our student days occur at that branch; 20% species, and 7% to 19% of butterfly species in Mexico. are generated by Lander Headquarters; 11% by Alaska; the most catastrophic effects of climate change, it T 8% by the Pacific Northwest; 6% each by Mexico, is now well known that some changes are inevitable. NOLS Australia & New Zealand Patagonia, the Teton Valley and the Southwest; 3% by This will undoubtedly have a noticeable effect on In the Land of Oz, climate change impacts include an the Yukon; and 2% each by Australia and New Zealand. NOLS courses around the globe. Each branch will face increase in the number of days of extreme heat, causing RECOMMENDATIONS unique challenges in coping with the localized effects of heat stress on flora and fauna. Extreme rainfall events Pure Strategies’ recommendations range from mak - a warming planet. What can NOLS anticipate at its are anticipated which will lead to increased flooding. ing energy efficiency improvements (including a num - various branches in the years to come? Warming seas will cause coral reefs to die off at an ber of steps to help define our goals around energy), increasing rate. In the mountains of New Zealand, to setting a climate protection goal, to establishing a forest stewardship policy (to guide paper procure - NOLS Rocky Mountain & Teton Valley scientists anticipate a loss of plant and animal species, NOLS students in the mountains of Wyoming and ment), to cleaning up mailing lists, to establishing in - an increase of shrubs at the expense of herb fields, ternal policies that will guide the procurement of Idaho can expect to witness rapidly melting glaciers glacial retreat, and a loss of snow cover. cleaning products, electronics, and gear (among other and reduced snow cover. Hotter summers will lead to things), to expanding recycling, to increasing our use more frequent forest fires and an increased vulnerabil - NOLS India of locally grown and organic foods. Phew! ity in trees susceptible to sap-sucking insects such as Glacial retreat has been witnessed across the Himalayan While the breadth of the recommendations is significant, pine beetles. River courses in Utah and Idaho may no - regions of India. On average, glaciers in India have lost 23 there are some interesting things to note. tice a shorter, earlier peak season, as warmer tempera - percent of their volume over the past 37 years, according • Refining our use of energy or paper can have tures produce earlier runoff. to an eight-year-old study. A dangerous side effect of significant impacts. • Many recommendations require little or no capital glacial retreat is the formation of glacial lakes, and the NOLS Pacific Northwest expense. This means that we can make significant increased possibility of a glacial lake outburst flood, progress without a significant impact on budget. Over the 20th century, the climate in the Pacific North - which can have devastating impacts downstream, result - • Many of the recommendations also entail setting west has been trending toward warmer, wetter seasons. ing in human casualties, destruction of infrastructure, internal policies or guidelines for smarter purchaing A noticeably warmer climate will likely lead to a sub - and the devastation of fields and forests. decisions and operating procedures. stantial dieback in Northwest forests, and an increase in WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? fire frequency and size. As we near the end of the 21st It is easy to become overwhelmed by the drastic predic - With Pure Strategies’ recommendations in hand and century, the Columbia Basin snowpack on March 1 tions associated with climate change. Some climate a good sense of where our biggest opportunities for could look like the June 1 snowpack does today. change, however, is good—such as the political cli - improvement lie, we will now set priorities. Where mate. As concerned citizens around the world become will we start? What initiatives are already in the works NOLS Patagonia more aware of the impacts energy consumption is hav - that we can support and encourage? What priorities will need future budget planning? We will answer From coastal Chile to the Andes to the Amazon, ing on the environment, they are demanding that these questions and more over time. If you have specific NOLS Patagonia could see a wide spectrum of rapidly elected leaders take steps to develop renewable energy questions, please send an email or phone me: changing conditions. Warmer temperatures in South sources and limit greenhouse gas emissions. NOLS stu - [email protected] or (307) 335-2262. America will be accompanied with glacial retreat and dents and instructors are in a unique position to track decreased snowfall. Climate change will likely augment and report on the most noticeable changes in the back - manmade changes in Andean valleys and South American country areas they frequent. Bringing attention to these WILDERNESS QUIZ steppes, leading to habitat fragmentation and a loss of trends can help reinforce the positions of those work - biodiversity. In the Amazon, up to 40% of the existing ing for a more sustainable future and a cooler planet. Fiord Land National Park is in what country? forest could react dramatically to an even modest reduction in rainfall. As a result, the entire ecosystem could change *Sources include the International Panel on Climate Change A) Finland B) New Zealand C) Norway D) New Guinea (Answer on page 12) very rapidly to another state. and studies by Travis Huxman and Samjwal Bajarcharya. 6 a H

THE Le ader n g n i g s a P N “ T i t a i c o s V O I E h e E L B O R P G E s n o H t u O R B ee s T S D O O H R O Y, G N I G N A H M a i d n s t a h t y e h t n i I La h D i r t a issu l o d i h t dep h w n i m so tu d n a g i Commun c wh ich B in nto a p al nd ra Y an ev a h u r. odi u rn u c t a l es l c g n LA re d t ed T ’ s r gi e ndyr a e s e o c H e r a e clo a da ms T e h T a nde x e e L am A t f U e i d n s e m dvo n i ic n o H h re s.” e occ R g t o l l l A t u c e l a th e e e l a A i EN ang o r p m ma i a n cl x k n i h t a f , ti i L d n l Pro ca x e ity n g zi es a if T c urs e an ot B o o o r i nde in e W n s e cy r U r e v i ing he e n li s e t l a C ns, s u a h t A h k l , s a w j o on g y ETH u on ” . g e m m o c a es evyer w ssociat A th e y c r t p h to g n c t f bl r e v i g N t Ou in s d o ri d s a g ow en p y H to g can L La ERB e c i m , y e h T n a ro N edu c t o pa " e o Ja me s y g b v R D l t t c e o d u — m e u t u . d m mo i Apr ras r o rs p e ion ssi — t t yr nd r E, r i din u T era en g - o r E N is s t un cate o u l A r o . n d n u o n hey s o o t ch il ri u s ro b NOLS In y e i m n u Q x e g u t n e r D a t t i g r e n a g e g 19 f o Ba y r n Y L i ts n c ots stit a c f e people e ht t r l bega or is t i c o a n i s o ce b e yt i , D te. h w r- a de o l a r d n Pj o r nt ta th an u i n i t “ i A y dr n c m o i re gio n n te e h t — d l Ri LUMN rov g n a h s a o e c i a h W d ly n t 9 1 . is si s , s n sli n ’s t to he o t c e h h gh jo t i in he Na I se , s a a e e m s n as c n 5 9 o n in bo rsy ad v g s n o v r U t e a a g n i n e w t h ti d I m ri p n i be e d n to n u a L on n ar IN ut in at e o a d se u i t s r f c oc s i som i t na a l f co u d TERN t ted ion d e e t o n fo D e’ c c u r n e i t m M h p l Qu a o u o a p s d tu l m rces t r i l b u o l nd e d e Ha c e d d i y” “ y b et u d w i t g a s s St to e ra a g l us l r f e d o , d s o nd o y h n o be y: a b w a at ll t n e f r s wi h s l t i a be h s dv o ho y u b e ng m i h i L g c i l ri eve “ e c wo i h e es, pu t a t o i th u o , s, s f I co f t u . o n a s tl f th i e l p an a l , t t ryo c n o n rds g A r a bl y th k st h r g s t e l s w e n w ac y . n g e ow d e s Ou h y d con si ly i e x e l A s, du g ” e d , C n c y d o n , t f c i l m i na i ou e Proj e l v r a NOL en se pa ma g l o t s e f e h t o ’s c t o “ n e te l p r n r t e l v r l e Da e L i n m r ou erg t r l o g e s i ges, l e o d h t de g t e el y na l re t i — i yb h e u t h c i a p as c c c s e y, d d ’s S y e e r r s t - - t - , . SUMMER 2008 7

Saving Energy With Your Laundry

Project Laundry List ergy consumption (and bills) but as a way to recon - Laundry List has been showing up everywhere. The founder and NOLS grad nect with nature and practice living minimally, if nonprofit was featured in the 2007 Thanksgiving issue Alexander Lee took his cause to the halls of only in a small way. of TIME magazine, and Alex was the featured activist power and asked pres - This idea of minimalism and connecting directly in Sierra Magazine ’s September/October 2007 issue. idential candidates and with the natural world, which Alex says is “thematic The Newsroom section of www.laundrylist.org has their spouses to hang their clothes to dry. to my life work,” is something that he felt very grown exponentially in the last year as publications strongly on his NOLS course. Although he had a from The Christian Science Monitor to The Wall good deal of outdoor experience before going on his Street Journal have picked up the story of the “Right to dry their laundry outside and to challenge one Brooks Range Wilderness River course in 1992, he to Dry” advocacy group. million Americans to pledge to use clotheslines . had never experienced anything quite like the beauty According to Alex, more than 150,000 communi - of the range and the experience of eating muktuk When asked what NOLS grads can do, Alex ties and homeowners’ associations in the United States (whale meat). “I feel really privileged to have gone provided a few simple ideas: have restrictions or bans on clotheslines. These restric - to a place that not many people will see,” he said • Wash your clothes in cold water, or at least turn tions are based on aesthetics and the idea that property about his time spent in Alaska with NOLS. down the temperature on your hot water heater. values will be negatively impacted by laundry drying His interest in environmental science began back outside. “The problem is that in a lot of neighbor - in eighth grade when he created “the greenhouse • Buy green detergents. hoods, community associations see hanging laundry effect in a Coke bottle” for a science class. Since then, as a flag of poverty, and they have banned it in pub - Alex has graduated from Middlebury College, with a • Use a laundromat—they’re often more environ- lic,” Alex said. In (most) other parts of the world, degree in Environmental Studies, and Vermont Law mentally-friendly than home washers because however, hanging laundry is the norm. For example, School, winning public service awards at each insti - laundromat owners have a financial interest in according to Alex, only 4 percent of Italians own tution. But it was time spent traveling in Ontario, seeking out the most efficient appliances. clothes dryers, compared to 81 percent of people here Northern Quebec, and Alaska that sparked his passion • Outside of the realm of laundry, Alex encourages in the United States. “Since 1945, we have sub - for conservation. “I want to preserve Alaska because everyone to actively advocate for conservation. scribed to a GE-perpetrated myth that these [appli - I’ve seen it,” he says. 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ALUMNI PROFILE

One Year in One Trashcan o r A NOLSie’s Commitment to the Environment w h i

BY MEREDITH HAAS, NOLS EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Every year Americans throw away l of ‘let the mountains do their magic.’” e I 25 billion Styrofoam cups—enough to l As the energy and food crisis rises, he phrase “leave only n circle the earth 436 times! And every Jeff hopes that more people will do their r Tfootprints,” has taken year we make enough plastic film to t own part in preserving the world for the a on quite a new meaning these a shrink-wrap Texas. In a lifetime, the h next generation. “We have to start look - days as the topics of climate average American will throw away 600 ing at long-term impacts and goals. It’s d l r change, pollution, and energy i times his or her adult weight in garbage! one small step at a time to become more and resource management have f With so much extra weight to lose, it’s a o hopeful,” he said. “We have to be more u become the main course of e wonder we bother carrying it at all. open…You can’t demonize the other

w l conversation in the 21 st century. To shed those extra pounds, Jeff has not side; you have to be in a conversation.”

t t And it’s no wonder with soaring gas i only limited his waste production, but has and food prices and diminishing resource m committed himself to giving one thing away For more information and to find a supplies that people worldwide are becoming every day, “even if it’s a bad attitude,” he said a recycling center nearest you, please visit w more aware of the impacts their footprints e jokingly. “People can do this, they just have w the following links: are actually having. So what can one man do , to minimize the amount they consume. And e about it? Use only one trashcan for the entire I have plenty of things to improve U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

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City, Utah, did. e traveling lighter, he says, resonates with Recycle Utah: www.recycleutah.org h Jeff set a goal last year to use only one 55-gallon the NOLS lifestyle. Jeff has been a NOLS 6 trashcan for the year. “I want a world that’s livable a instructor for the last 10 years and t and beautiful, and if I don’t reduce my footprint, loves the simplicity of living in the 0 not strictly carbon, then how can it be?” said Jeff. v backcountry. “It’s a privilege to sleep i

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m n a footprint at the end of the year! Jeff and his 10-year-old e I think can carry over i r D daughter, Emma, successfully made it through the from the backcountry. NOLS Instructor Jeff Louden b year with their allotted 55-gallon trashcan, which A We had an old mantra e holds approximately 459 pounds of trash. To reach a m s their goal, Jeff and Emma sorted through the trash g daily, which he says only takes a couple of minutes, e in hopes of improving and producing less waste in h e the future. r i i ! Part of their daily ritual included sorting plastic c bottles by number and recycling or composting s nearly everything. There are some mixed a products such as toothpaste tubes, n Styrofoam, and some construction materials he says simply just can’t be recycled. Everything they sort is taken to Recycle Utah, a nonprofit recycling organization in Park City. Having been the former president of the organization, he swears they can recycle just about anything from all glass types (brown, green, clear, etc.) and some construction materials to electronic wastes. Jeff says it’s not hard and that he takes extra care about what he purchases at the store so that not only is he using less, but he’s also recycling less and saving energy. In order to further reduce paper and plastic waste, he carries canvas bags to tote his groceries home from the market. “I want my daughter to inherit a world that is beautiful and enjoy the same experiences I have,” he said. “If I don’t walk the talk then how can I expect her to? It wasn’t that hard, you just have to make a commitment. I look at how much I use and pay attention to plastics. I look for food that’s in season with minimal packaging and won’t buy anything packaged in Styrofoam. I’ll also read online instead of buying a newspaper,” he said. 10

THE Le ader

Gabe Rogel

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d SUMMER 2008 11 gh Side of The Horn of Africa:

BY MAJKA BURHARDT, NOLS GRAD ditifirost canme to EthBiopia in Octeobehr 200i6 to nwrite adbout Vsupporteandrintereist, wchicah melant thaEt everytwhhere weioextrpeme anid thea everyday. I would rather go towards the Ia rare coffee bean, Geisha, that was thought to be from went, we were with other people. world than escape from it, which is good because in the Horn of Africa but had never been found there. A We climbed on escarpments in plain view of a town Ethiopia there is little option of anything else. When you’re relative of this coffee bean, grown in Panama, now garners that was made into a town by forced relocation of people adventuring in Ethiopia, this is what you are in the midst of: more than $100 a pound on the market. While the expedi - into a centralized area in the name of safety. Off in the dis - • Half of the country’s population earns less than a dol - tion I had joined to cover the story didn’t find Geisha, I tance lay Hawzien, the village where we stayed and the site lar a day and the country is one of the top ten recipi - found Ethiopia. of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Derg, a commu - ents of foreign aid money in the world. The country is In gathering further background information on the nistic regime that controlled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991. awash in contrast. In Mekele, the capital of the Tigray country, I contacted British climber Pat Littlejohn, who Hawzien is the area’s center and on its market day, a region where we were climbing, new glass buildings had been there before. Following our discussions, he sent me Wednesday, in 1988, when people from the surrounding stand regal and complete with signs advertising office eight photos of striking sandstone towers in the northern towns and villages came to trade wares, a low flying plane space and Internet access. Next door, another building province of Tigray. When I told Ethiopian friends of my dropped a napalm bomb and killed 2,500 people. There is in mid-construction—the scaffolding is branches plans to climb and showed them photos of the north, of is a monument to the dead in the middle of Hawzien, bound together with twine leaning lazily against concrete shocks of sanguine stone piercing an azure sky, I was met placed just so that traffic circles around it; each day, on the walls with edges bubbling over wooden frames. with blank stares. This is not the Himalayas, Patagonia, way to and from climbing, we rounded this memorial. • Ethiopia is the only country in Africa to have maintained or the poles. Exploration has occurred in Ethiopia, but not at the level of its potential due to politics and safety— Locals often climb third, fourth, and, in some cases, government sanctions, war, and persistent international restrictions, to name a few. The result is a country twice even easy fifth class terrain to simply get to church... the size of France that is just now being understood for its full geographical diversity, which is how I put it to potential In Tigray, terraces extend in every direction as a result independence against the era of European colonialism. partners when I was assembling my team. I would then of a food-for-work program that targets preservation of Italy occupied the country in the 1940s in retaliation go on to explain recent kidnappings, religious violence, the fragile landscape. We were climbing in the very region for a vendetta Mussolini had as a result of an Ethiopian and wrap up the conversation with my assuring them that of Ethiopia that was flashed across every television screen victory against his country in the late 1800s. The despite all of this I felt safer in Ethiopia than I did in most and radio in the 1980s for the famine that killed more United Nations helped Ethiopia drive the Italians out, places in the United States. I’d end with the following tidbit than one million people and affected six million more. but not before several roads were built and the country that sealed the deal: “Where else in the world are you To scout out climbing lines we hiked over and got hooked on pasta. As a result, everywhere you go, going to find unclimbed sandstone spires anymore?” through these endless terraces to get close to walls and even in the small villages we climbed out of in the peer inside cracks and chimneys for a way up. The rock north, spaghetti is readily available. By March 2007, I had a team assembled. Kristie Arend, undulates deep orange and red with ochre bands up high. • Rated one of Frommer’s top 12 adventure destinations Helen Dudley, Caroline George, and photographer Gabe It quickly became clear that we wanted nothing to do last year, Ethiopia has ten national parks with another Rogel. Guided by overly digitized versions of the images with the ochre bands and the horizontal striations they dozen in the making. The country has emerged from a Littlejohn had sent me, we headed off to a handful of signified in the rock. Even from the ground, this porous dark veil of war into a world of opportunity with its natu - rock faces outside of Hawzien, a small town in the Tigray upper band, more than a hundred meters above us, looked ral resources. Is the country safe? It depends on whom province. Our main objective was the Gheralta, the last in like a bad idea. But the rock underneath is ever mysterious you ask. Caught in the middle of a global war on terror, a series of sandstone upthrusts covering much of Tigray. with potential. We spent countless hours scurrying up Ethiopia is 60 percent Christian and 40 percent Mus - The largest of these is three kilometers long and 450 meters and down terraces to get to these faces, taking binoculars lim. The two faiths have largely lived in harmony up tall. The rock folds over itself and turns sharp and smooth to the sandstone cracks and estimating the size and safety until this point. Ethiopia has a contentious border with corners to form buttresses and isolated towers with pinnacles of various objectives. We were not there to climb to one Eritrea to the north and recently invaded Somalia to its and faces repeating in every direction. Once we saw Gheralta specific summit, but rather to see how much we could east. An aid darling of the United States, Europe, and up close I knew it could take a lifetime to explore these find to climb. Israel, Ethiopia’s stability is seen as crucial for East Africa’s faces. Eager to start climbing, we picked our way through Our first tower was a five-pitch experience of short stability. It houses American military and intelligence in - terraces to the base from the road within an hour. Twenty sections of perfection followed by long scary choices on stallations a mere 400 kilometers from Saudi Arabia. meters of climbing later, we were duly humbled. questionable rock. Gheralta does not give itself easily to a Sandstone is not known for its solidity. Sandstone climber, but then again, that was what we were there for. And this is where we were climbing. This is where sport in Ethiopia even less so. Perfect cracks became fissures Deep in the middle of the Nebelet Towers, we climbed and life and history and culture all converged in an elu - on a suspended panel; gear bit into the rock and left an 150 meters to the rounded mushroom summit of orange sive search for summits. We established several beautiful impression when removed. Not having expected things sand and reveled, briefly, in our success before realizing lines; many that I would go back and climb again, many to be easy is one thing, realizing just how hard they might that our only way down was to down-lead. We did this others that I would never want to again attempt. What be is another. It quickly became clear that when rock for one pitch and then found gulleys to take us the rest of drove us was the knowledge that we were only seeing part climbing in Ethiopia, following is definitely the desired the way. We drove back to Hawzien that night while the of what there was to see in the area. The sheer density of position. Freed of such worries as wondering if the an - sunset silhouetted acacia trees against the deepening sky. rock, the consistency of the formations layering out after chor you are being belayed on is strong enough or how each other far into the horizon, the sight of another mas - much rock you are knocking off below, the climbing is Driving away from that first ascent, I wondered both if I sif just around the corner—all of this created both an ur - sublime. You can dance over edges and flirt with jamming was up for another Ethiopian climb and how that climb gency and a peace during our trip. There was no way we and laybacking. You can be in Ethiopia. If you are lead - mattered in the face of other similar exploits in the world. were going to fully explore the potential of these cliffs, ing, sometimes all you want is to be somewhere else. I’m 31. I did not grow up in the golden era of rock climb - but the mere taste provided inspiration for more. ing and cut my teeth on first ascents waiting to be Northern Ethiopia is resplendent with vertical terrain and plucked around the world, but I have always wanted to be This article is reprinted with permission of The Explorers Journal , a quarterly magazine published by The Explorers vistas. Locals often climb third, fourth, and, in some cases, that type of adventurer. Ethiopia represented that chance Club. For more information, please visit www.explorers.org. even easy fifth class terrain to simply get to church— to me, and it did so in a new way that I did not fully un - Majka Burhardt (pictured at left) is a Boulder, Col - attending services still held in ancient sanctuaries hewn derstand until now, a year later. orado-based writer, climber, and certified guide and a NOLS from the rock 1,000 years ago. We went to visit the most When I was young, I believed adventure had to be Wind River Wilderness grad from 1992. She is currently on vertically famous of these, Abuna Yemata, and used sandstone removed from daily reality. I grew up paddling the wa - a speaking tour with her book, Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing foot and hand holds worn into the soft rock and polished ters of Northern Minnesota, Canada, and the Arctic. Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa. See our review of Nothing would upset me more than to have an interrup - it on page 12 and find a copy at www.verticalethiopia.com. from centuries of use. While no one in the region is Gabe Rogel is a “wannabe cowboy, former mountain climbing beyond this, the very fact that these churches tion in this perceived sanctuary—be it a plane, a cabin, a guide, ardent skier, and photographer” who is based in exist created an understanding of our desires as climbers trace of anything human but me. I wanted purity in ex - Driggs, Idaho. More of his spectacular photography can be to explore these faces. Everywhere we went we had local ploration. Now, what I want most is the integration of the found at www.rogelphoto.com. E H 12 T Le ader

BOOK REVIEW

Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn

of Africa 8:00a.m.

8:30a.m. Written by Majka Burhardt ©Shama Books, ISBN 978-99944-0-032-4, $37.99

REVIEW BY LAUREN WETHERBEE, NOLS ALUMNI INTERN

NOLS grad Majka Burhardt’s new book, Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibililty in the Horn of Africa , is a striking portrait of her time spent in Ethiopia, seeking out first ascents in a country in which few have spent much time climbing. Majka’s first trip to Ethiopia was as a journalist 9:00a.m. where she was swept away by the country’s stun - ning rock faces. Inspired by the landscape and by British climbers Pat Littlejohn and Steve Sustad, A Day in the Life of a NOLS Intern who only two years before became the first climbers to ascend a tower in Ethiopia, Majka re - turned to Ethiopia with three other women and Making a Lifestyle Choice long-time friend and photographer, Gabe Rogel. That expedition, which Majka writes about in the BY JARED PANGRETIC, NOLS ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERN & BAJA SEA KAYAKING GRAD cover story of this issue of The Leader , culmi - nated in the creation of Vertical Ethiopia . s I approached my college graduation five months through my head: What to expect? Who were my With a foreword by Paul B. Henze, author of Aago, I began to mull over an old adage I finally coworkers? What would the work atmosphere be like? multiple books on Ethiopia’s history and his time could not escape. I’ve heard it said, “You graduate When do I get to go climbing? spent living and traveling there; and historical, from college, get a job, plug yourself into society.” Al - Monday, my first day of work, was extremely geographical, and cultural background provided though those are logical steps, I felt there were a few exciting and everyone was very welcoming. My co-in - by Majka, Vertical Ethiopia is more than just a crucial factors missing: having fun and believing in the tern, Sandy Bandhu, and I took a tour of the Rocky work you do. climbing narrative. Anecdotes about interactions Mountain base and the NOLS International Head - Tackling the fun factor first, I applied for a NOLS with incredulous taxi drivers, dexterous local chil - quarters building down the street. Within a few weeks course and searched to see what employment oppor - dren with their own systems for climbing, and we had settled into our workspace and dynamic sched - tunities might be available with NOLS after my course. even a priest who officiates at a church high up a ules. Even though there was so much going on around I discovered their internship program online and without the branch, it was always easy to find small distrac - rock face are interspersed with stunning photo - hesitation I applied for the NOLS Rocky Mountain tions and interesting people to talk to. I soon found graphs of climbing, landscapes, and daily life. (RM) internship in Wyoming. With graduation, a NOLS out that there was no such thing as a typical day for a Through these vignettes of the people of Baja Sea Kayaking course, and an internship coming NOLS intern, but to give a bit of a snapshot of what Ethiopia, you can feel the warmth and humanity up, the next few months promised to hold some of the it’s like, read on: of a place that few ever visit and most know little greatest adventures of my life. about; a country that Majka describes previously After my sea kayaking course, I was thrilled to bring It’s April, and at 7:30 a.m. my alarm wakes me up to imagining as consisting of “dry and desolate my new skills I learned in the field, such as leadership a bluebird sky and smiling sun at NOLS’ Noble Hotel landscapes, [and] fragile and bony legs…a coun - and expedition behavior, to the internship. I was ready where I’m staying along with other interns and students try of constant war and oppression.” Both visually to work hard, challenge myself, and learn even more. and staff from courses coming and going. I grab break - enticing and informative, in many ways the book My journey began in Michigan and when I arrived fast from the dining hall before taking my two-block relates as much a cultural experience as it does a in Lander, Wyoming, perched just northeast of the walk to NOLS Rocky Mountain. climbing one. For Majka, climbing is her way of Wind River Mountains, I immediately knew why this I’m welcomed at the office by office manager connecting and experiencing: “Living, however was the town where NOLS was founded. With two Glenda Brannan’s bright smile and a pot of brewing temporarily, in the vertical is the most intimate days before work started, questions began swirling coffee. As I’m checking email and glancing at my and powerful way I can know and understand a foreign land.” Vertical Ethiopia is available on Majka’s web - site, www.majkaburhardt.com, or on Amazon.com.

WILDERNESS QUIZ

Answer (to question on page 5) : B, New Zealand Established in 1952, Fiord Land National Park is situated on the South Island of New Zealand. With an area of 4,834 square miles, the park is comprised of fiords connected to the Tasman Sea and bordered by the mountains of the Darran Range. Some of the country’s finest treks (the Routburn, Kepler, and Milford tracks) are located in the park. The fiords are home to Bottlenose and Dusky dolphins, Common and Hector's dolphins occur outside of the fiords. Humpback, Southern Right, and Sperm whales have also been sighted. SUMMER 2008 13

11:30a.m. 9:30a.m.

11:00a.m.

NOLS Among the Best 1:00p.m. 5:00p.m. Places to Work!

2:30p.m. BY JARED PANGRETIC, NOLS ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERN Meeting Maker calendar to see what the day holds, who are coming and going preparing for the field, and special projects manager and intern supervisor Lara later work on prep work with Virginia in the Issue McCluskey offers a warm good morning with her bike Room for the next day’s film shoot. We meet with Lara The consensus is in! In the May 2008 issue of helmet still safely secured. Nearby, assistant director later in the afternoon to finalize the script and bounce Outside magazine, NOLS was ranked number 10 Kevin Bergstrom, program supervisor manager Chris around some last minute ideas. Everything is ready to go! as a “Best Places to Work” mid-size company, Brauneis, and branch director Gary Cukjati share a Our discussion moves to what we have planned after work. defined as having between 50 and 249 employees. laugh to start the day. The day starts to wind down by 4:30 p.m., which By 9 a.m., Sandy and I discuss the day’s events and means that a rally of people will be heading to Sinks NOLS was one of only two nonprofits and the only check in with one another on ongoing projects, all while Canyon for some climbing and hiking. As the clock educational organization on the list. being entertained by Sydney, one of the many dogs strikes 5, I don’t take a second to think as I bolt out the In July 2007, Outside teamed up with the hanging out in the office. At 9:30 a.m. I have to interview door like a marathon runner! Outdoor Industry Association and Best Compa - a few students returning from the field for a new blog post It is truly a fantastic opportunity working in a nies Group to begin its first-ever nationwide search I’m writing and discuss layout with Sandy. I get side - position for NOLS that is challenging and rewarding. tracked by the Issue Room team: Emily Shoutis-Frank, Every day holds a variety of different tasks and NOLS for the best places to work. The program was de - outfitting coordinator, and Kevin McGowan, outfitting offers a fantastic atmosphere where it’s easy to mix signed to recognize and honor employers that manager, as they set up for their annual yard sale of your passion for the outdoors with interesting work. create a work and outdoor life balance and an miscellaneous gear. I take this opportunity to rent a My internship has taught me tolerance for adversity environmentally friendly business process. The crashpad and fly-fishing rod for the weekend, for and uncertainty, problem solving, project management, FREE! You gotta love the perks of being an intern! team building, and leadership skills. Whether your finalists were determined by evaluating workplace At 11 a.m. I’m back at my desk to finish re-sizing field is in video production, marketing, journalism, or policies, philosophy, conducting extensive surveys, pictures and uploading the blog post to the RM’s site. outdoor education in general, there is a fit for you and employee satisfaction questionnaires. The Feeling a little hungry, I head to the Gulch to get some at one of the NOLS locations or departments. In survey and questionnaire topics included benefits, dehydrated fruit and garlic mix from the wonderful some instances, internship positions can even lead to compensation, job satisfaction, environmental rations ladies, Claudia Pearson and Jane Lynn. With full-time employment. the employee discount it is an affordable snack. Be - initiatives, and various other components that fore lunch, NOLS’ video production engineer, Vir - As this article went to press, Jared became the newest measure a well-rounded workplace. ginia Moore, pops in from NOLS Headquarters to member of the NOLS Bus crew, touring the country to In addition to NOLS making the list, it was work a script for the new Issue Room video, recruit recruit NOLS students and teach about alternative great to see some of our partners and clients cast members and go over shot layouts, lighting, and dialogue before breaking for lunch at noon. energy. Come find your place in the NOLS community! there with us, such as Patagonia and Google. After lunch, I continue to work on website updates Available positions can be found online at www.nols.edu/ Although I am new to the organization, it is and snap some pictures of instructors and students alumni/employment. very evident to me that NOLS is a special place to work. With the school’s backbone being out - door education skills, leadership, and excellence in environmental stewardship, it provides a highly We’re Flexing Our Muscle to Get You Great attractive atmosphere for fun, challenge, and learning. In the Q&A section of this issue, Lindsay HOTE L DEALS Nohl, who has held various positions at NOLS over the past five years, states, “I don’t think ROM RATES F there has been one day in my five years working The benefits of a NOLS education are many—skills, experience, wilder - $ for NOLS that I have woken up and dreaded going 56 ness, leadership—and now there’s more. We’re leveraging the strength of our over 100,000 grads to gain valuable benefits for our alumni and staff. to work. The most rewarding aspect of working at We’ve arranged for NOLS staff and grads to receive discounted, business-style NOLS is I get to work at a place I believe in [and] lodging at Club Quarters properties in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, I know that what I am doing is having an impact Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and London. Rates start as low as $56/night. on student experience.” Some restrictions apply and availability varies. Contact the NOLS Alumni department at (800) 332-4280 or [email protected] for details. Come and see for yourself! Internship opportuni - ties, instructor courses, and job openings are all BECAUSE EVEN HONED WILDERNESS TRAVELERS posted at www.nols.edu. [DESERVE A NICE HOTEL ROOM NOW AND THEN. ] E H 14 T Le ader

RECIP E BOX

“The WIZNUT appeared PREPARATION Fresh Trout WIZNUT 1) Grease a large fry pan with a thin layer of butter. in 1966 as a miracle answer Submitted by Mike Poutiatine (SSR ’81) 2) Fry the trout in the pan with spice of choice until meat comes off the bones. to our desperate pleas for INGREDIENTS 3) Collect small dead twigs—enough to sustain a small 2 cups cooked brown rice fire on top of the pan for at least 30 minutes. cheesy crunch." 1 cup diced mixed veggies (re-hydrated ok) 4) Remove fish from pan and de-bone. –FORMER INSTRUCTOR JOHN WHISNANT ½ cup reconstituted potato flakes 5) Mix all ingredients EXCEPT THE TROUT AND CHEESE , (INVENTOR OF THE ORIGINAL WIZNUT) ¼ cup thunder flakes (onion flakes re-hydrated) in a cook pot. ¼ cup milk (powdered is fine) 6) Line the bottom and sides of the fry pan with one ¼ cup butter layer of cheese (should stick to the remaining Spice to taste butter and trout bits left from cooking the fish). ~1 lb. cheddar cheese, sliced thin 7) Add ½ the rice mix in a layer over the cheese. 2 Cutthroat Trout—10-12” each, preferably 8) Add the trout in a layer over the rice mix. swimming 20 minutes before cooking 9) Add the remaining rice mix over the trout. 10) Finish with the remaining cheese on top. 11) Seal it tight with the fry pan lid.

COOKING Set the stove on a low, low simmer. Construct a small twig fire on top of the pan lid. Rotate the pan and keep the twig fire burning for 20-60 minutes until the WizNut is golden brown and bubbling. Step 5: Mix all ingredients Step 7: Layer cheese, rice (except the trout and mix, and trout, filling the cheese!) in a cook pot. fry pan and finishing with Step 6: Line the fry pan cheese on top. with a layer of cheese. RECIPE TEST BY WILLY CUNNINGHAM, NOLS ALUMNI Technique-wise, I used a stone the same height as PLANNING COORDINATOR the stove to offset the burner flame and aid in rotating the pan while baking. riginally created by instructor John Whisnant Oin the ‘60s, the WizNut can take many forms, The Outcome but the key, original element is inclusion of a layer Our staff thought this beautiful and aromatic dish was of fried cheese on the bottom of the pan. While very good and could be supplemented with a variety of admittedly fat-heavy by today’s dietary standards, extra spices (salt, pepper, garlic powder, etc.) to person - the original WizNut delighted decades of calorie alize taste. As one delighted taste-tester said, “I'd eat it hungry NOLS students with its crunchy, crispy in the frontcountry!" layer of fried goodness. I substituted a single rainbow trout for the suggested native Cutthroat. I felt good about this substitution Got a great backcountry recipe? Send it to leader@ because I used a 3-weight rod and pinched-barb March nols.edu along with your name, NOLS course, and Hare fly to catch this wily, non-native fish. where the recipe was created. If your recipe is chosen, Recipe Box recipe tester Willy Cunningham cooks his To cut back on the fat, I deleted the butter as you’ll get a copy of the NOLS Cookery ! WizNut on a low simmer combined with a twiggy fire. there was ample grease with the cheese. Cook until the WizNut is golden and bubbling.

GEA R ROOM

I’ve been considering purchasing a food dehydrator. Do Got any tips on what to look for when purchasing Get Dehydrated: these things really work? a dehydrator? Making Your Food Last Definitely. They blow warm air over food, slowly drying Both Jaret and Claudia agree that the number of trays it out. The same idea can be achieved in an oven or even is key. For personal use, Jaret says that 5-6 trays are in a solar food dehydrator. Remember that dehydrating sufficient and he recommends you check out Nesco, BY LAUREN WETHERBEE, NOLS ALUMNI INTERN is not a speedy activity—what takes several minutes Ronco, and Excalibur brands (all available online). to re-hydrate might take several hours to dehydrate, Feeling adventurous? Search for a solar food dehydrator ith the summer growing season in full swing, so patience (and a good timer) is essential. on www.appropedia.org—Chris’ Solar Food Dehydrator Wyou might be wondering what to do with all page has tons of great info on making your own the produce piling up in your kitchen. We got an Does it make more sense just to buy dehydrated food and solar dehydrator. email from NOLS alum Josh Goodman looking for jerky and avoid the trouble? more information on food dehydrators. To get the inside Go forth, dehydrate, and enjoy the abundance of your scoop, we talked to Jaret Slipp, NOLS Yukon director Claudia stresses that it really depends on what and summer garden all year and in the backcountry. and dehydrating guru, and how much you want to dehydrate. Some easily found Claudia Pearson, fearless RM dried items (like apricots or cranberries) may be worth Got a great new piece of gear that you’d like to tell rations manager. With their the extra cost to avoid time spent making them your - other NOLS alumni about? Write to [email protected] and share your gear thoughts, questions and opinions. input and some good old- self. But if you’ve got the time and the interest, dehy - If it ends up in print, we’ll hook you up with a spiffy fashioned research, we’ve got drating at home is a great, inexpensive way to make NOLS t-shirt or hat. answers to Josh’s questions. your own backcountry snacks. SUMMER 2008 15

FIEL D NOTES Relief Medic Program: Backcountry Medicine Helping Rural Communities

BY LAUREN WETHERBEE, NOLS ALUMNI INTERN

MI instructor Justin Padgett didn’t go to WEcuador with the intention of starting a rural medical care program. In the course of his travels, though, he realized the need for such a program in many t

rural communities that have little, if any, medical care. t e g d

In 2005, working with the government and CEMO - a P n i

PLAF ( Centro Médico de Orientación y Planificación t s u Familiar ), an Ecuadorian nongovernment organization, J Justin, who taught the country’s first WFR course in Participants in Landmark Learning’s Relief Medic Program provide medical care in remote Ecuadorian villages. Land - 2001 and founded Landmark Learning, WMI’s largest mark Learning is a partner of the Wilderness Medical Institute of NOLS. affiliate, organized the first trip of what would become the Relief Medic Program. This year’s trip includes WMI grads and WMI The Relief Medic Program provides medical care instructor Fiona McColley, who is being trained to in remote Ecuadorian villages, some above 12,000 feet lead future programs. Her participation in the Relief in the Andes and some located along the Rio Nabo Medic trip two years ago introduced Fiona to WMI. She and accessible only by took her WMI instructor dugout canoe. “I really believe that it’s a great course in 2007 and has been To work with the opportunity for people to apply teaching courses through program, participants must Landmark Learning since. have a Wilderness First their wilderness medicine train - “It’s awesome to be able to Responder certification or see my students in real-life higher and a willingness ing to real life situations. It’s a situations; to see how much to help. The 14-day pro - great combination of emergency their skills improve,” she said. gram begins with four WMI grad Craig Samples days of training in which medicine and adventure travel.” is also participating in an participants learn skills upcoming trip. Certified as specific to what they will see working in rural communi - an EMT after his 2005 retirement, Craig took WMI’s ties in a developing country. Alejandro Lazzati, a WMI Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals to be instructor who has been involved with the program since prepared to provide medical care in primitive conditions, its inception, says that most of what they do is basic but he discovered that finding a way to practice his health with the occasional “wild and weird cases.” new skills was difficult. Craig hopes that this trip will While serving the local communities, participants allow him to build on his WMI training. “[It will] not will gain clinical experiences in wilderness medicine. only teach me new techniques, but also give me a “I really believe that it’s a great opportunity for peo - chance to put them, and my previous training, into ple to apply their wilderness medicine training to real practice,” he said. life situations. It’s a great combination of emergency medicine and adventure travel,” says Justin. “It’s the For more information on the Relief Medic Program and This could be perfect way to put WMI training to use in a real and WMI courses available through Landmark Learning, meaningful way.” check out http://landmarklearning.org. your job.

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two years in the Dominican Republic, where she will Epsie Nolan, WSW 07/11/04 Garrett Maguire, AAU1 03/11/07 be working with youth in the arts. Epsie and Miller Coleman were married May 3, 2008 Garrett, 21, died Sunday, April 27, 2008 in Ashburn - in Atlanta, GA. ham, MA. He was an avid sportsman, hunting and Brittany Kurtz, ISS 06/10/06 fishing the waters and woods from New England to Brittany graduated in December from Green Mountain Sarah Annarella, FSR2 09/09/93, ICS 04/13/99, Alaska. Services were held on Saturday, May 3, 2008 College in Vermont and is planning to join the Peace Corps. and Steven Brutger, JSPM2 01/25/01, AKIC in Gardner, MA. 05/13/02, both current NOLS employees Abdul Samad Khan, OECW 06/18/07 Steven and Sarah were married on May 31, 2008 in CONGRATULATIONS TO NOLS A LASKA FOR During a recent leadership development program, Moran, WY. Nate Furman (AKIC 5/13/02) officiated. "Leadership Adventures," for one of his corporate 25 SUCCESSFUL YEARS ON THE FARM ! clients in Pakistan, Abdul introduced the concept of NEW ADDITIONS Dedicated in the summer of 1983, the NOLS Alaska LNT. For this purpose, seven volunteers were invited Bradley Martin, RICU 04/26/00 and Kristen Martin and each was assigned one LNT principal. Their farm has seen more than 10,300 grads and 650 instruc - Bradley and Kristen Martin are now proud parents of responsibility was to ensure compliance of their tors come through its doors, making it our second largest twins. Braeden Rane Martin and Kaia Rose Martin respective LNT principal throughout the program in branch. Although NOLS first ran courses in Alaska in were both born on their brother Bradley's birthday in the Himalayas. April (a very unique birthday present for him). Mom 1971, it was 12 years before the farm came along, creat - ing a permanent base for NOLS operations in Alaska. MARRIAGES and twins are home and doing great! Brother Bradley now has a new understanding of EB. Funded by NOLS’ first capital campaign, the Lalasa Jacks, WNH 06/26/03 farm is set on 40 beautiful acres in the historic IN REMEMBRANCE Lalasa and Somendra Singh were married in New Matanuska Valley outside Palmer. From this idyllic Delhi, India on January 9, 2008. A reception was Randolph Britt, II, WSB1 04/08/00 (and central) location, which boasts breathtaking views held in Wisconsin in March. The new couple will Randy passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Randy of the Talkeetna and Chugach mountains, students set live in London, England. loved the outdoors. A man of many interests, he loved off on backpacking, mountaineering, and sea kayaking to ski, kayak, bike, sail, fish, hunt, and backpack. Rachel Drayer, ICS 04/02/05, and Josh McNary, He also enjoyed playing basketball, cooking, reading, courses, exploring the wilds of this vast land. NCM 07/19/00, SIC 05/02/02, both current traveling, meteorology, and spending time with fam - While the overwhelming natural beauty of Alaska NOLS Rocky Mountain employees ily and friends. Services were held near Randy's farm makes a course there unforgettable, Don Ford, director Rachel and Josh were married April 12 in Taos, NM in California. in a small wedding of family and close friends. Their of the branch since 1989, is quick to attribute much of officiant was John Abel, Rachel’s mentor on the climbing James Karpinos, AKW 06/13/02 NOLS Alaska’s success to hardworking staff, instructors, section of her IC, as well as a co-instructor and good James, 22, a student at UNC Asheville, was killed and their state of the art facility. It is, after all, the friend of both. April 26, 2008 in a hiking accident. He was an employee whole package that has allowed NOLS Alaska to become in the UNC-Asheville Outdoor Program where he was an integral and permanent part of the local community Leonidas (Polk) Deters, SSW 01/21/93, RIC active as a trip leader and staff trainer. Their caving 04/29/98, former instructor program owes so much to James for his passion and as they welcome new students in ever greater numbers Polk married Sarah Ashworth on April 19 in Asheville, competence. Services were held on Saturday, May 3, season after season. Thanks NOLS Alaska! And here’s North Carolina. 2008 in Chapel Hill. to the next 25!

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WRMC 2008 You know that a successful expedition takes the commitment and investment of all of its members. Well, with the release of our new strategic plan, the NOLS family is embarking on a new expedition— and we’d love for you to come along! Experienced industry leaders. JACKSON LAKE LODGE JACKSON, WY Aptly named Expedition 2013, the strategic Proven, tailored and effective methods. OCTOBER 1 –3, 2008 Relevant, dynamic workshops. plan is essentially a map for NOLS’ route over the Unprecedented networking opportunities. next five years. It reflects both where we’ve been Register now at www.nols.edu/wrmc and save! Register now—you can’t afford to miss this! and where we hope to go. Check it out for yourself at www.nols.edu/strategic_plan to see which goals resonate for you. Maybe it’s our renewed commitment to protecting the school’s wilderness Developed by NOLS, the LNT Master Educator course is the highest classrooms or our dedication to making the NOLS level of Leave No Trace training available. As a graduate of the course, experience possible for more students than ever you will be qualified to offer and teach two-day LNT Trainer courses. before—whatever it is that excites you about our shared journey, surf over to www.nols.edu/donate TAKE YOUR LNT TRAINING TO THE NEXT LEVEL to back up your excitement with a gift (of any size!) to the NOLS Annual Fund. Enroll in a Leave No Trace Master Educator Course Today! Did you know Annual Fund gifts help make scholarships possible for deserving students? And they help to combat significant threats facing Upcoming courses: our pristine classrooms. Whether you’re fresh off San Juan Islands, WA | September 22-26 your course or recalling it fondly from many years Ouachita National Forest, AR | October 19-24 Grand Canyon National Park, AZ | November 7-11 out, these are surely goals you can appreciate. So step up and become an active member For more information visit www.nols.edu/lnt or call (800) 710-6657 x3 of Expedition 2013 with a gift to the NOLS Annual Fund today! A 18 LUMN REU in Se n a l N We a r r p an i W de a to q W TR li ual a e bit , d n e l f f w e fo e atc e e s d r s ign e s ’r o p e , o w .nol r s e ity ne co e mat h and m t n r Yo O gan ize , i l e t t twor nn yo or t a ins s he re rk d n a

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NOLS TETON VALLEY BOOK REVIEW • About sixty 14- and 15-year-old Adventure Course students will participate in a University of Utah research project this summer on transference of expedition behavior into the frontcountry. Guidebooks by NOLS Grads: • We planted six new trees on our branch property Seeking Some of the Best Hiking and Paddling Across the Nation this year. The ongoing generosity of a grad family is underwriting our growing “forest.” BY MEREDITH HAAS, NOLS EDITORIAL ASSISTANT • We’re constructing our version of a ramada—a shaded outdoor space—for use as a classroom, eating Here we’ve highlighted several guidebooks from NOLS graduates who have ventured across the country space, and packing area. to share their knowledge on some of the best places to hike and paddle in the nation. From Utah and Colorado to the Grand Canyon and Florida Keys, readers will discover where to go, whether it’s for a NOLS YUKON short day trip or extended backcountry expedition, and will benefit from the detailed descriptions and tips provided by folks who share the NOLS enthusiasm and respect for outdoor adventure.

Best Summit Hikes in Colorado – James Dziezynski, Hikernut’s Grand Canyon Companion: A Guide to Wind River Mountaineering ‘98 Hiking and Backpacking the Most Popular Trails Into A guide to more than 50 ascents the Canyon – Brian J. Lane, Wilderness First Aid ‘99 of classic and little-known peaks As a National Best Books Awards from 8,144 to 14,433 feet, Sum - finalist in 2007 and chosen by the mit Hikes highlights some of the Benjamin Franklin Awards in p p

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t Companion is written especially e Mountains has to offer. Learn to r a J find sights like fossilized for the first-time hiker or back - Traditional Inuit Village seashells more than two miles packer wanting to explore the above sea level with detailed topographic maps, Grand Canyon. It includes infor - • Besides full catalog courses in Canada’s North, we’re GPS waypoints, and elevation profiles. Difficulty and mation on what equipment to bring, permit partnering with Yukon College here in Whitehorse class ratings, optional routes for further exploration, requirements and how to apply, rules and restrictions, to offer a special leadership and outdoor skills course to Japan’s Waseda University. Also, we’re in and fascinating trivia and history are included right trail descriptions, and other tips geared toward the the planning stages of a risk management training along with hiking essentials and ethics, such as the most popular, easily accessible, and maintained trails with Arctic College on Baffin Island. classic Leave No Trace principles. Published by into the Canyon. Full-colored maps and over 50 Wilderness Press, © 2007, 9x6, 339pp, $17.95. photos, along with detailed trail descriptions with • We’re offering a canoe-based Instructor Course in length, time, and difficulty are also included. Published the Yukon again this summer. Utah Hiking: A Complete Guide to More Than 300 by A Sense of Nature, © 2007, 8.5x5.5, 90pp, $9.95 • The Donner Foundation and other alumni donations Hikes – Buck Tilton, WMI Co-founder and Instructor are generously funding eleven Yukon and First Nations Whether you’re in search of kid- 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento – Jordan students this year. friendly trails, day hikes, or week- Summers, Outdoor Educator Course ’90 & Wilderness First Aid ‘07 • Our Baffin Island Canoe/Backpacking course will long backcountry treks, you’ll find spend a weeklong cultural section in the Inuit com - what you’re looking for in Buck For anyone within the Sacramento munity of Kimmirut. Tilton’s Utah Hiking guide, which area who has limited time and provides information on more wants to find good hiking within an NOLS SOUTHWEST than 300 hikes from Zion to Bryce, hour’s drive of this great city, through the Uinta Mountains. Trail Jordan Summers, a local hiking • NOLS Southwest is bringing more lightweight gear descriptions include difficulty ratings, scenic beauty, enthusiast, offers the best day into our inventory and program—semester inde - and best hikes, in addition to planning details such as pendent student group expeditions are heading out hikes from the Foothills, Mother with packs less than 40 pounds. roundtrip distance and hiking time, best seasons, park Lode, and Delta regions. Quick and fees, and contact information for each hike. This book easy assessments of each trail are provided along with • As part of the NOLS sustainability initiative, we’re offers reliable information on each location and activ - information pertaining to facilities, trail traffic, best increasing composting and recycling. We’re also ity, while emphasizing low-impact enjoyment for any - times to go, scenic views, and trail history, in addition using low-flow water fixtures and solar batch water one wishing to venture into some of Utah’s most to driving distances and directions to trailheads, GPS- heaters. A proposal for full solar operations is also in the works. breathtaking places. Published by Avalon Travel Pub - based trail maps, and elevation profiles. Published by lishing, © 2005, 8.5x5.5, 228pp, $16.95. Menasha Ridge Press, © 2008, 9x6, 324pp, $17.95 NOLS ROCKY MOUNTAIN America’s Wilderness: The Complete Guide to More Florida Keys Paddling Atlas – Bill Burnham, Yukon • Our first Scandinavian sea kayaking course started Than 600 National Wilderness Areas – Buck Tilton Outdoor Educator Backpacking ’03, and Mary Burnham in June. Highlighting more than 600 Na - This detailed color atlas of the • We’ve expanded the Noble Hotel store—snacks, tional Wilderness Areas across Florida Keys is specifically for pad - toiletries, and NOLS apparel are available for purchase. the country, America’s Wilder - dlers and other small craft water ness provides information on enthusiasts. Custom-made charts • We’re experimenting with solar satellite phone when to go, how to get there, highlight paddle-friendly marinas, chargers for the field. what permits and maps you’ll hidden waterways, bird-watching • Our new, grant-funded solar set up is getting an need, who to contact for more sites, as well as fishing and surf interpretive update in the form of an interactive details, and other essential tidbits spots. Accompanying field notes provide route-find - display of daily, weekly, and yearly solar electricity including where to backpack, bird-watch, camp, ing information, including distances and suggested generation. canoe, fish, hike, horsepack, kayak, observe wildlife, routes, paddling highlights, cautions, natural history, • Thanks to the efforts of the Deuter company, we’re photograph the best natural scenery, raft in white - flora and fauna, and points of interest to guide water using two new lightweight backpacks this summer. water rapids, and rock climb, as well as guidelines travelers on their own excursions and adventures. An Both roomy models weigh less than five pounds empty. on how to explore the Great Outdoors without leav - extensive appendix includes information on kayak ing a trace. Published by Foghorn Press, © 1996, launches, outfitters, guides, and rentals. Published by • Our food room, the Gulch, recently received a facelift 8.5x5.5, 591pp, $19.95. Globe Pequot Press, © 2007, 11x8.5, 128pp, $34.95 in the form of a wall-sized mural of Wyoming’s Cirque of the Towers. 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