NOLS - Alaska Backpacking

  United States

Palmer

Term: Summer 
Dates: (16 and older) July 12-August 10, 2009; July 15-August 13, 2009; July 18-August 16, 2009

Description: An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every sense, allowing you to explore beautiful landscapes in either the Talkeetna Mountains or the area just east of Denali National Park in the Alaska Range, where the trees disappear and the land stretches into alpine tundra plains with a backdrop of rugged and heavily eroded mountains.

Out here it's still light at midnight, and 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, black bears, moose, wolves and Dall sheep.

Highlights:
College Credit
(Optional)

6 Semester Credit Hours:

2 Hours Environmental Ethics
2 Hours Leadership Techniques
2 Hours Skills Practicum

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: USD 3,725

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to United States Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Scholarships are Available. Each year NOLS offers over USD 800,000 dollars in scholarship assistance. Scholarship aid is available to applicants who show great potential to excel as NOLS students and who would be unable to attend without financial aid. These scholarship dollars are made available through the generosity of alumni and friends to the NOLS Fund. Our graduates realize the great impact a NOLS education has and volunteer both time and money to further the school's mission.

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Job and Internship Network

NOLS The National Outdoor Leadership School's Mission Statement: The mission of the National Outdoor Leadership School is to be the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.

Year Founded: 1965