Decades of Community
The decades since NOLS founding have forged a unique community based in wilderness, built on our teaching mission, focused on our students, and reliant on our staff and volunteers. Watch this video, made for our 45th Anniversary, featuring grads, instructors and employees dating back to NOLS founding in 1965.
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