Outdoor IN Ed: College Outdoor Programs, Semesteter Schools & Gap Programs
This college's outing club was founded in 1909 and is the nation's oldest. In 1920, after National Geographic published an article about this club's recent skiing trip, applications to the college surged 300%.
What is Dartmouth College?
The first Outward Bound school was founded in Wales in 1941 with the goal of improving the survival chances of young seamen should their ships be torpedoed in the Atlantic. Appropriately, the emblem of Outward Bound is ________.
What is a compass rose?
The school home to the SECOND oldest outing club in the US (1932) has at least one alumni in the Overland office.
What is St. Lawrence University?
This storied American mountaineer not only founded NOLS in 1965 but also helped start the first US professional guiding service (now Exum Mountain Guides), attempted K2, and served in the 10th Mountain Division in World War II.
Who is Paul Petzoldt?
Until 1992, the world's highest and most technical peaks (8000m +) weren't seen as commercially viable by guiding companies. This changed when this company succesfully completed the first commercial expedition up Mt. Everest, led by Gary Ball and Rob Hall. Tragically and famously, Rob Hall passed away in the 1996 Everest storm, popularized by "Into Thin Air."
What is Adventure Consultants?
In 1984, Tom founded Overland. The first semester school was ALSO founded in 1984, in this state
The US’s first Outward Bound school opened in Colorado in 1962. It was not, however, the first one to accept women in 1965, this one was.
What is Outward Bound Minnesota? (Now Voyageur Outward Bound School)
Established in 1892, and now at a little over 6 million acres, this is the largest protected land area in the Lower 48.
What is the Adirondack Park?
In 2024, the Outdoor Recreation sector represented around ____% of the US workforce.
What is 3%? (~ 5 million jobs)
Around this many U.S. students take a gap year between high school and college each year.
What are 40,000 - 60,000 students?
(anything in range is acceptable)
This NOLS location was the most recent to open (2010). It’s also located in an Overland trip start/end location!
What is NOLS East Africa? (Arusha, TZ)
Starting in the 1890s, black regiments of the US Army (also known as Buffalo Soldiers) helped serve as the nation's first park rangers in Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia and THIS national park, which was known at the time as General Grant National Park
What is Kings Canyon National Park?