Tim Felt grew up in the suburban wilds of Northern California. His career in outdoor education started with him working in boarding schools 1991-94 running outdoor programs and teaching biology in New Hampshire and Arizona. He took a NOLS Instructors Course in 1993 and started work in the field immediately. For the next decade, Tim went on lead backpacking, rock climbing, and mountaineering course types in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, and Chile for NOLS. 

During his transition away from the school, he spent two summers as the mountaineering program coordinator at the NOLS Alaska branch. At the time, Tim was also attending veterinary school in madison WI where I still reside with my wife Pam Foster Felt ( also ex NOLS instructor) and their two teenage daughters. Ultimately he decided veterinary medicine wasn’t for him, and he transitioned into a career as a residential remodelling contractor.