Our guest today Jared Spaulding has worked in the outdoor education industry since 1999. He has worked for NOLS for over 20 years as a field instructor and now mixes his time between instructing and an administrative program supervisor role at the Rocky Mountain branch.

Jared has instructed courses in Wyoming, Utah, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, India, and Patagonia. Most of his fieldwork has been leading mountaineering courses and rock climbing camps, although he has worked several horseback courses and a few hiking-specific courses in the past five years.

Jared was speaking to me from Lander, Wyoming on the traditional and present lands of the Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Crow peoples.