We Bid Thee Farewell!

Ahhh how time files... It feels like just yesterday we were new to NOLS RM, learning people's names and about the projects we would be working on. Enthusiastic to start and hit the ground running. Now after just 10 short weeks, today is our last day as the spring NOLS RM interns. We have had a great time here in Lander, and will miss everyone we have met along the way. Thank you for the amazing experience, the laughs, and the wonderful time we spent here, our sojourn will be missed and never forgotten.

As for the future, Whitney will be heading south on Sunday to her new home in Boulder, Colorado. Whit will be working for the Women's Wilderness Institute for six months as the Program Coordinator Intern helping manage course logistics (rations and gear), coordinating with other interns and volunteers, and helping with pre- and post-season administrative duties (permits!!). She's looking forward to her new job working with some amazing and inspiring women and girls, but will definitely be back up to visit (and climb in) Lander this summer!

As for me, I will be headed to NOLS corporate (more commonly known as HQ) which is just down the street, to start another exciting journey as part of the NOLS publications team. I look forward to the change and am excited to be in Lander for the summer months!

Thanks again NOLS RM for everything you have taught us!!

Thank You, Lander For a Successful Riverbank Clean-up!

Lander Community--

We wanted to thank everyone who came out to support our Community Riverbank Clean-up event this past Saturday, April 10th. We truly appreciate your time (on a beautiful Saturday morning) and effort (we collected A LOT of trash!). Take a look at some of the moments we captured from the event:

Volunteers of all sizes!

Success down along First Street.

Some strange trash out there...

Whitney and Paul, two of the event planners, with Jerry, Jerry and Keith of the Lander Lion's Club--our chefs extraordinaire!

Thank you to our event sponsors who helped make our event happen: Mr. D's, The Breadboard, Tony's Pizza, Pamida, Lander Lion's Club, Lander Journal, Wilderness Medicine Institute and our local musicians.

NOLS Rocky Mountain intern and event planner, Whitney Johnson, sporting her AmeriCorps gear.

Thank you for volunteering your time and helping make our community space look a lot better!

Event planners and supervisors enjoying the Community Riverbank Clean-up event.

We hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did. We can't believe that nearly 70 Landerites came to volunteer their time and that we filled up an entire dumpster with trash! Thank you all for coming out to support the Lander Community.

Press Check, Jackson Hole!!

I was invited by the publications team from NOLS HQ to accompany them to Jackson Hole to do a press check on the spring Leader. The Leader is a publication put out by NOLS 3 times a year and is distributed all over to NOLS alumni. The Leader contains interesting articles featuring NOLS alumn, updates about the school, and tons of other useful NOLS related information.

The guys at the press hard at work making the Leader look great!

Good thing we went to the press check, here is a before and after look at the Leader! The guys at the press in Jackson Hole were great and got the paper looking amazing!

We also happened to be in Jackson Hole for the World Championship Hill Climbing Festival, so town was clogged with people, snow machines, and big trucks! So needless to say, we spent the night, had a few beers, and promptly left early the next morning to avoid the chaos!