Just got back from a 34 day training course to become an instructor with the NOLS. Here are some photos from the training which took place in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Cochise Stronghold in Arizona. First order of business as a new instructor is teaching a hiking course in Alaska!
Brian and I spent three weeks in Arizona shooting for NOLS at both Cochise Stronghold and the Santa Teresa mountains. Here are some stills from the trip. Stay tuned for upcoming releases on http://www.nols.tv to see the footage we shot.
May, June, and July have been some of the best months I can remember having lived, seriously. It started with a two week trip to Bolivia with Jason, Emily, Forrest & Dad where we visited several major cities and saw much of the Bolivian landscape. Then came a 30 day NOLS course focusing on mountaineering in the North Cascades and rock climbing in Squamish. These spectacular outings were topped off by coming back to Lander for an awesome few weeks of climbing with friends. Check out a video I made about the Annual Climber’s Festival that took place in Lander a couple weeks ago.
I’ve also been getting more excited about Flickr and have posted images from the NOLS course as well as the most recent climbing trip. Bolivia photos coming soon!
The second NOLS podcast has pushed us into “new & noteworthy” video podcasts on the iTunes store! YouTube below, iTunes here – http://bit.ly/NOLSpodcast
I started working for NOLS last march as a video intern. Over the past few months my coworker, Brian, and I have enjoyed working for NOLS so much that we decided to try and create full-time positions for ourselves. As of last thursday we are full-time employees!! We created two ‘Video Producer’ positions and we have a one year contract to prove to NOLS that they should continue supporting a video department. Initial signs look good as video was a big topic of discussion during our annual ‘State of the School’ gathering which took place this last weekend and includes the NOLS board of trustees and all the various branch managers. If you haven’t seen them yet, some of our videos are at www.nols.tv which will be overhauled in the coming months. Unfortunately most of our latest work is not publicly viewable yet because we’re working on developing several series of videos before we release them. We’re also working on creating a stronger presence in the youtube community which fits into the NOLS word-of-mouth style marketing.
First day as happy (and well dressed) employees. Brian took the wonderful image at the top of this post while the two of us were in Telluride for Mountainfilm. I did the photo-shopping.
Intro to a series of videos revolving around NOLS Leadership qualities and transferability to REAL life.
I’ll be traveling with Bruce to NYC & Boston to interview alums and capture some of these stories May 17th-22nd.
Kyle Duba 
