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WTC logo. The Wilderness Travel Course (also known as WTC) is a Sierra Club program that teaches basic mountaineering skills to students.. The class is a 10-week introduction to all-around outdoor proficiency, gives participants a taste of backpacking, equipment, snow travel, field navigation, wilderness ethics, basic rock climbing, mountaineering medicine, winter camping, general safety and ...
A new trail brings access to alpine wilderness, and controversy, to Chugach State Park in Eagle River. Anchorage Daily News, Alaska. Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska.
8th edition cover. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills [1] is often considered the standard textbook for mountaineering and climbing in North America.The book was first published in 1960 by The Mountaineers of Seattle, Washington.
The official NOLS logo [1]. NOLS is a non-profit outdoor education school based in the United States dedicated to teaching environmental ethics, technical outdoor skills, wilderness medicine, risk management and judgment, and leadership on extended wilderness expeditions and in traditional classrooms.
Wilderness Press is a publisher of outdoor guidebooks and maps that was founded in Berkeley, California in 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its first publication was Sierra North (1967/2005). [ 3 ] Reissued in 2005, this is considered the authoritative guidebook for hikers and backpackers in the Northern Sierra Nevada .
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“Maria Vatne had this blog called ‘Wild+Free’ and I was fascinated by it. I discovered it 10 years ago,” the director of “A New Kind of Wilderness” – which has its world premiere ...
The first issue of Backpacker appeared in the spring of 1973. The first editor's note written by William Kemsley, the founding editor, explains that it took three years to put together the first issue of Backpacker, and that the founding editors worried that America in the early 1970s did not contain a backpacking community large enough to support a magazine.