Outdoor Leadership school training courses in Anchorage, AK (public, in-house or online)

Students with a background in glacier mountaineering will be best suited to this Instructor Course. You’ll explore either the Alaska Range or the Chugach Range, both classic Alaskan mountain ranges offering plenty of glacier travel opportunities, time to practice and hone your wilderness living and teaching skills, and the possibility of technical climbing and peak ascents.

While the days can be long (there’s more daylight up here!), often involving hard work and cold temperatures, the re...

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An Alaska Backpacking course is a wilderness expedition in every sense, allowing you to explore beautiful landscapes in either the Talkeetna Mountains, the Alaska Range, or Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, where the trees disappear and the land stretches into alpine tundra plains with a backdrop of rugged and heavily eroded mountains. Up here where it’s still light at midnight, you’ll follow the tracks of the seasonal caribou migration.

How to hike on tundra; identify the birds, flowers...

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Alaska is a land of incredible fjords, forested ocean coasts, and high alpine meadows. Your month-long adventure will give you a chance to learn two wilderness travel skills, backpacking and sea kayaking.

Your kayak will follow a route in the Prince William Sound where glaciers flow directly into the ocean and a variety of marine animals are easy to spot.

You’ll learn how to handle your boat in different conditions of wind and tide, and also how to be a good leader and keep a pos...

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This backpacking course takes you into Alaska’s sweeping tundra and steep mountain passes for a 24-day immersion into leading and teaching in the wilderness.

Your classroom will be Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park or the Talkeetna Mountains, where you’ll start below tree line, work your way along glaciated river valleys, and eventually reach the open tundra plains. Here’s where you’ll learn about effective teaching techniques and then get a chance to put those techniques into ac...

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If you’re a practicing or aspiring outdoor educator, you know that learning to lead groups in two different skill areas is a professional advantage.

This course will prepare you to do just that, giving you the chance to learn how to lead on land and sea. Your classroom for the sea kayaking section is Prince William Sound with its plentiful wildlife and booming tidewater glaciers.

Using either Whittier or Valdez as a starting point, you’ll learn how to glide along the coast in a s...

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