Alumni community
Stay connected
The NOLS alumni community stays engaged through trips, events, mentorship, and giving. Whether you graduated last year or decades ago, there is always a place for you around the campfire.
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Alumni trips
Lodge to Lodge Nordic Skiing in Maine
Hiking the Italian Alps - Monte Rosa - Alumni
Sea Kayaking Patagonia's Ocean Secrets - Alumni
Backpacking Peru’s Iconic Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu – Alumni
Alumni Custom Course
Intermediate Horsepacking in Wyoming’s Wind River Range - Alumni
STAY WILD
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Ways to get involved
Stay part of the NOLS story. There are many ways to give back, stay connected, and pass the torch.
Alumni Trips
Join fellow grads on curated wilderness trips designed for every skill level. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones on the trail.
Attend a reunion or event
Reconnect with other alum, share stories, and stay connected to the NOLS community.
Give to NOLS
Support scholarships, conservation efforts, and the programs that made your NOLS experience possible for the next generation.
Alumni voices
Stories from the community
Instructor Spotlight: Caeden Greene
A NOLS experience can truly be a transformative experience for a young person’s life, and that was certainly the case for field instructor Caeden Greene. In high school, Caeden embarked on a 30-day Waddington Range Mountaineering Expedition (WAD), long known as one of NOLS’ most rigorous courses. The WAD expedition had such a profound effect on Caeden that he wrote about the experience in his college admissions essays, which eventually landed him at Stanford University. There, he is currently finishing up dual undergraduate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering. While at Stanford, Caeden did not lose his itch for adventure,…
Turnback Canyon: A NOLS Instructor Shares Lessons from Whitewater Paddling the Alsek River
NOLS instructor Natalie Sands writes about making hard decisions about the most challenging rapid she’s ever faced.
Alumni story
“My semester taught me far more about myself than I ever expected, and gave me the space to both become more confident in who I am, and more finely tune my interactions with others – incredibly useful tools that I was desperately lacking in.”
Ma'ayan G.
NOLS Fall Semester in the Rockies grad
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