Wilderness

Outdoor

Leadership

Fundamentals

WOLF

Instructor & Guide Training Center

Our commitment to Safety, Industry standards

and Outdoor Ethics,

while keeping learning fun is simply

Second to none.

The WOLF Program started because of the obvious growing need for trained, professional leaders in the outdoor recreation / expedition & adventure industry.

It is becoming more and more popular for people to get involved and active in the outdoors, and they do it in many different ways and indifferent environments. WE believe. When leaders are responsible for a client or groups in the outdoors. They should have the skills and or certifications needed to run their programs in a safe, fun and professional manner.

Lead and make decisions with confidence.

WOLF

can take you there.

Mission Statement

To provide the WOLF Leader with the necessary skills needed to up hold today's industry standards, safety and professionalism by using modern

competency based leadership training and internationally recognized certification programs.

WOLF Goals

To be a Leader and provide competent leaders in today's.

Professional Outdoor Leadership Development Community.

Employment Opportunities

After a WOLF graduate receives the certifications need to for employment. We have worked out, potential employment opportunities and internships with a number of Expedition Companies, Adventure Education Programs, Adventure Education Schools & Outdoor Recreation Businesses.

We link adventure through education.

WOLF

Wilderness Outdoor Leadership Fundamentals.

Northeast Semester.

September - May

New England's Adventure Instructor & Guide Training Center

Tekoa Mountain Outdoors semester program gives you the skills and leadership experience needed to succeed as a

skilled, professional outdoor leader.

WOLF North East Semester consists of minimum indoor classroom time and maximum time for the outdoor adventure courses.

Skills development

Winter and Summer Mountaineering, Rock & Ice Climbing, Backpacking, Wilderness Canoeing, Flatwater canoeing, Whitewater Kayaking, Caving, Wilderness First Aid, Ropes Course and Team building, Cross Country and Back Country Skiing, Environmental Education and Community Service.

We use the mountainous regions of the north east. They are home to a very diverse range of wilderness landscapes, we're thankful to have classrooms from which we can go to snowy peaks and ridges to lakes, rivers, swamps and gorges.

The TMO New England's Adventure Instructor & Guide Training Center is in the perfect location to access the unique wilderness areas of New England. Teaching wilderness education, technical & soft skills in the steep mountain ranges of the White /Green /Berkshire Mountains.

Rock climbing, boating the lakes region in upstate NY and white water rivers of the Berkshires in Western Ma.

WOLF participants will develop a profound appreciation of New Englands diverse, beautiful landscape.

TMO Instructors, Guides, Adjunct faculty, Per dim Instructors of TMO-WOLF are widely recognized as some of the very best in their field and have practical leadership experience from around the world. They have lead expeditions to rivers and peaks around the world including Mt. Everest, Mt. Kenya, K-2, South America, Alaska and more. They are well trained and have great passion and enthusiasm for sharing their skills and knowledge.

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TMOs. Wilderness Outdoor Leadership Fundamentals program is an educational model that promotes a positive message, nurtures leadership development, and creates an awareness of the guiding mentality that is essential for leading safe fun adventures in the outdoors.

The balance of technical skills training, experiential education and hands on experience make the WOLF curriculum world class.

WOLF Semester Certification Program

WOLF Course Curriculum outlines the essential components for effective outdoor leadership.

Here are a the course we'll focus on.

Testing & Certifications offered upon completion of the

WOLF semester

Participants may qualify for the following certifications:

AMGASPI . American Mountain Guide Association

3 day AIARE Level 1. Avalanche Certification

ACA White Water Kayaking. American Canoe Association

ACA White Water Canoeing. American Canoe Association

ARC. CPR, AED, Wilderness Remote First Aid. American Red Cross

ACCT Level 2. Low Ropes & High Ropes Team building, ABC

LNT Trainer. Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics

WOLF Top Rope Site mgr. WOLF

WOLF 4 season mountain travel. WOLF

WOLF Level 1 Cross country Skiing. WOLF

WOLF Environmental Education. WOLF

Professional Incident Response. WOLF

WOLF, Curriculum was designed by outdoor professionals by using the most current training standards and materials, also by affiliating ourselves with other professional organizations such as

AMGA, SOLO, ARC, ACA, LNT, BSA. to name a few.

TMO Guides & Instructors have lead trips or are leading expeditions in the USA, South America and around the world.

Where do you want to go?

WOLF Mountaineering & Rock Climbing

New England has many great climbing areas and all are within minutes to just a few hours away from the TMO New England's Adventure Instructor & Guide Training Center. New England is home to a sea of granite and offers endless amounts of, bouldering, face, slab climbing.

WOLF students will have remote areas all to themselves to hone in on rock climbing technique, anchors & placements, safety management, and multi-pitch climbing. Participants will learn and practice the finer points of different belay techniques such as the hip belay, running belay, fixed belay, and more! Fixed lines are an important tool for large groups and guiding applications. Well learn how to efficiently use, build and maintain them. Roped team travel is a complicated endeavor that requires skill, technique and teamwork. Well cover everything from why and how to use a prussic, to team dynamics and risk management. You will learn how to identify different types of hazards and minimize group exposure to things like rock fall and river crossings, avalanches and ice travel these are some examples of objective hazards.

WOLF. Ice Climbing
There's a balance of cold winter temperatures and sunshine that make ice climbing in the NE some of the best in the country. The ice climbing in NY High Peaks, The Whites and surrounding areas have everything from easy, moderate top-rope climbs to steep, technical multi-pitch routes.

You'll learn comprehensive avalanche safety awareness and emergency response in a winter mountain environment and professional incident response. The Berkshires, Adirondacks High Peaks and the snowy peaks of the White Mountains are ideal locations to develop technical, winter mountaineering leadership skills.

We use curriculum that is nationally recognized material that prepares our WOLF participants to be safe back in the country. We'll examine loose snow, wet snow, soft slab, and hard slab avalanches. You'll learn the definition of terms such as alpha angle, and bed surface. We'll discus things like snow stability evaluation, learn about and do compression tests and rutschblock test that will help you evaluate multiple layers within the snowpack. As a group, we will travel safely through steep avalanche terrain, including cornices, mixed ice & snow. We'll learn about equipment selection, route finding, campsite selection, avalanche rescue. Someone buried in an avalanche has an 87% chance of survival if found within the first fifteen minutes. We will practice by using probes, learn how the beacons work, and participate in effective search patterns in order to quickly and efficiently find a buried person.

AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Terrain

The level one is a 3 day/24 hour introduction to avalanche hazard management.

The course will Provide a basic understanding of avalanches. Describe a framework for decision making and risk management in avalanche terrain. Focus on identifying the right questions, rather than on providing answers. Give lessons and exercises that are practically oriented, useful, and applicable in the field.

Students will participate in developing a good understanding of how to prepare for and carry out a trip, understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught).

A final debrief includes a knowledge quiz to test student comprehension and to give feedback to instructors on instructional tools. Students are encouraged and counseled on how to apply the skills learned and told that no course can fully guarantee safety, either during or after course completion. A link is made to a future AIARE Level 2 course.

Student learning outcomes.

At the end of the Level One course the student should be able to. Plan and prepare for travel in avalanche terrain. Recognize avalanche terrain.

Describe a basic framework for making decisions in avalanche terrain. Learn and apply effective companion rescue.

WOLF. Wilderness Canoeing & White Water Kayaking

ACA. Curriculum prepares students in. Canoeing skills, Water safety. Camp craft. Navigation. Leave No Trace camping techniques and much more. Safe swim plan, learn how to identify hazards, rescue techniques, campsite selection. These are some of the skills you would expect to learn on a WOLF canoeing expedition and, you will.

You'll paddle with your canoe through lakes and streams. Portage trails in some of the world's most pristine wilderness canoeing areas and learn LNT methods while on the way. You may also choose to leave the calmer waters and instead take on our river skills-intensive trip in a whitewater kayak. Learn to read the river while paddling your canoe or kayak through sections of whitewater rapids. New England has some of the finest white water runs anywhere. While learning to brace and roll in pools, we'll take it out to the ponds and rivers of the NE. Covering ACA program material, including things like group travel in the wilderness and how to manage risk. Eddying out, surf, holes, boofs? and peel outs. LNT way of living on the river? of course that's how we do it.

WOLF. Wilderness Backpacking

Curriculum prepares students for exploration into remote backcountry settings.

You'll Learn how to plan and prepare for short day trips and extended wilderness expeditions. Well cover everything from technical camping equipment to group and personal expectations.

Learn cooking and how to repair broken stoves, build an emergency fire after being hammered with rain or submerged in a river, melt snow efficiently for water these are key components for leading a group into New Englands diverse wilderness environments. Learn river crossings, attention to detail. You'll learn and practice safe techniques for wading across small streams.
You'll learn the history of the land you are exploring and how forces create and influence the environment around you.

You'll explore everything from Group dynamics, expedition behavior, shore line to ridge line and everything in between. Discover the Appalachian Trail, The High Peaks Wilderness Area, St. Regis Wilderness Canoe Area, Northern Forest Canoe Trail, (NFCT) and much more. You'll Backpack over numerous peaks above 4,000ft, they offer an array of climbing objectives within the steep snow slopes, rock ridges, and alpine mountain terrain amidst a remote wilderness environment make it a perfect location for developing expedition mountaineering skills.

Wilderness and Remote First Aid

This is a must for anyone traveling into the back country and for those who would lead and or be responsible for groups in the outdoors.

Wilderness and Remote First Aid, Primitive Survival skills & Rescue

Curriculum prepares students to handle wilderness emergencies and manage liability. Most WOLF Wilderness first aid courses incorporate CPR for the professional rescuer. Learn to recognize mechanisms of injury, maintain in-line stabilization and proper use of a backboard. Patient history, signs and symptoms, and detailed assessment are critical tools for identifying appropriate medical care in the back country. From gathering witness statements, communicating with the press, and managing incident command, you'll learn the skills to effectively mitigate liability following an incident, Building primitive structures, Water purification, Matchless fire building.

WOLF Curriculum

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WOLF Northeast, Semester Program.

September - May

8 month program cost

CONTACT INFO.

Tekoa Mountain Outdoors / WOLF

27 Sugar Hill Rd.

Williamsburg, MA 01096

413-296-4249

WWW.TekoaMountainOutdoors.com

Tim@Tekoamountainoutdoors.com

Lead and make decisions with confidence.

WOLF

WOLF can take you there.

WOLF

Wilderness Outdoor Leadership Fundamentals

WOLF

Wilderness

12 Days

Leadership Certificate/Competency Courses

WOLF 12-Day Wilderness Leadership Courses:
These courses are designed for those individuals who are seeking exposure to a wide-variety of wilderness leadership skills, adventure hard & soft skills training, and learn how and when to apply them.

The wilderness of New England will serve as the host for our expeditions, also our learning and development areas. It is a great place to connect with nature, practice awareness and outdoor skills, be challenged, and discover your own unique leadership style. We will camp in high alpine areas, hike ridge lines, paddle clear lakes and scout rapids from the shore line,we'll see alpine flowers, cross creeks, traverse over mountain passes, and climb (weather permitting) to spectacular views from the summits of Mt, Marcy,or Mt Washington & other near by high peaks.

Through experience, fun lectures, and group discussion we will plan,trip preparation, safety, survival, guiding, basic mountaineering, and outdoor teaching. We will also learn how to read a topo map and learn how to use a compass, how to navigate safely through remote mountain terrain, how to facilitate a group, and understand group dynamics. We will also explore the metaphorical, spiritual, and therapeutic elements of the wilderness experience.

Lead with confidence.

Get ready for

N.H. White Mountains & N.Y. High Peaks

Introductry to winter camping, Ice climbing, mountaineering

includes needed rental gear

March 20-29. 2012

100+ miles of paddling

$1,260,00

Backpacking the High Peaks of New Hampshire with

Presidential Traverse

You'll Experience:

Skills Development

Interested WOLF candidates should call 413-296-4249 to receive details for the program you are inquiring about