Leave No Trace Trainer Course
When: Wednesday, April 14 – Thursday, April 15
The Bureau of Land Management and the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) are offering this two-day, low-mileage backpacking format course designed to enhance your understanding of Leave No Trace practices and ethics and to increase your level of expertise and confidence in teaching Leave No Trace skills.
Cost: $25.00 Full Course Description Equipment List
Indoor Climbing at Elemental Fitness
When: Friday 9:45—11:45
Elemental Training Center and the Association for Experiential Education are offering this event to celebrate the passion of climbing. Climbers of all abilities are encouraged to attend, and climbing shoes, harnesses and belay devices are included for those who need them. As directed by their needs and desires, participants can join with others and enrich their climbing skills. Beginning climbers will be able to boulder, climb and learn how to belay, while all climbers will be able to improve their skills on Elemental’s sweeping walls with hints and tips from one of the training center’s certified personal trainers, Lee Brown. AEE’s Rocky Mountain Region student representative, David Farkas, an avid climber and Outward Bound instructor, will be co-hosting the event and helping ensure that everyone has fun and learns more about how to improve their climbing. Climb on! (134 Lincoln Street)
Cost: $10
Inquiry-Based Learning Workshop
When: Friday 12:00—3:00
What happens when you open the gates and let students ask the questions? Will you explore relevant content? Will you be able to find the answer? Is there enough time? In this workshop, you will experience inquiry-learning as students and learn structures and strategies to support inquiry in your classrooms when the process leads students outside your areas of expertise. The workshop integrates the theoretical foundations of place-based, inquiry and experiential learning, and refines your skills as a learning coach whose expertise is the learning process, and not always the specific content. Meet at NOLS Noble Hotel classroom (Use 3rd Street entrance).
Cost: Free
National Outdoor Leadership School Facilities Tour
When: Friday 1:00—2:30
Join National Outdoor Leadership School Curriculum Director John Gookin for a tour of NOLS Lander facilities. The tour will include stops at NOLS International Headquarters, Rocky Mountain Branch, and Noble Hotel. All three sites are within walking distance of each other, so dress for the weather. Meet John at the 3rd Street entrance to the Noble Hotel.
Cost: Free
Sinks Canyon State Park Tour
When: Friday (times TBA)
Sinks Canyon, six miles southwest of Lander, has been called one of America’s best state parks. The Park features a geologic phenomenon in which the Popo Agie River vanishes into a large cavern (the Sinks) but reappears in a trout-filled pool, The Rise, about half a mile down the canyon. Join Park Superintendent Darrel Trembly for a tour of this Wyoming gem. Carpool from Pronghorn Lodge.
Cost: Donations Are Appreciated
