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500,000 Student Days: Biggest Take Homes in Risk Management
In the early days of January in 2017 as I was preparing to transfer ownership of the guiding company that I had run for twenty-five...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20238 min read
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Expeditionary Learning & the Invitation to be Excellent
When you are designing and setting up a new entity, you get to take a step back, look at the drawing board and decide what you stand for....
Calla Sneller
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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1997
After college, after a year in China, after several years working with students in the outdoors, after a summer as a mountaineering...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20235 min read
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500,000 Student Days: Biggest Take Homes in Risk Management
In the early days of January in 2017 as I was preparing to transfer ownership of the guiding company that I had run for twenty-five...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20238 min read
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Expeditionary Learning & the Invitation to be Excellent
When you are designing and setting up a new entity, you get to take a step back, look at the drawing board and decide what you stand for....
Calla Sneller
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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1997
After college, after a year in China, after several years working with students in the outdoors, after a summer as a mountaineering...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20235 min read
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Suren Thami, Emily Y-D and the Guided Moment
Here’s how I heard the story: When the students arrived at 2 AM, there was a line-up of cars waiting to transport them from the airport,...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20233 min read
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The Guy Came Barging through the Double Doors
Leaning forward, the guy came through the double-doors of our office like he was charging a castle. I walked up to greet him, though...
Chris Yager
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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The need to improve the Guide Life Cycle: An Interview with Josh Morris
“It just doesn’t matter if we win or if we lose. It just doesn’t matter!” chants Tripper Harrison as his fellow counselors hoist the Camp...
Calla Sneller
Jan 26, 20234 min read
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Devoted to the Question: An Interview with Ben Bogin
To be devoted to the journey, to the essential questions that we seek to answer, rather than the destination is well, quite bluntly, way...
Calla Sneller
Jan 25, 20232 min read
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Savings Young People's Lives: An Interview with Susan Daily
It is impossible to encapsulate Susan Daily into a category or even summarize her incredible skills into one career path. She is an...
Calla Sneller
Jan 25, 20232 min read
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The permission to create a more radical, beautiful world: An Interview with Shannon Clements Parry
In a world of systems with implicit inertia to keep us busy, disconnected and going with the unintentional flow, how do we pause, take a...
Calla Sneller
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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One Second's Learning
From the time I lurched out of my bindings until the time that I hit the tree, I traveled about 40 feet and was in the air for just over...
Chris Yager
Jan 25, 20234 min read
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Flow and the Movement of Clay: What I learned from a weeklong pottery class in Denmark
I have been throwing pots for 35 years. During a week-long course in Copenhagen, I recently learned that for 35 years I have been...
Chris Yager
Dec 1, 20221 min read
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