Use your Americorps award to pay for your course!

In cooperation with NOLS and Western State University, students may use Americorps awards to pay for course tuition. Contact the office for more information!


FFI's Pete Walka receives 2022 NOLS Wilderness Medicine Faculty Award!

FFI’s Pete Walka honored to receive the 2022 NOLS Wilderness Medicine Faculty Award!


First aid on the trail with Mountain Mama

Super fun article from NOLS/FFI Wilderness First Responder Ginny Galbreth on Tales of a Mountain Mama!


"The empowerment to help someone else"

Jeff Brownscheidle (aka Mountain Man) hikes A LOT -- he's completed the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and many others.  He also recently completed a Hybrid WFR course with FFI (and rocked it!).  Here's a link to the article that he published after the course.  Thanks, Jeff!


New Hybrid WFR course!

NOLS and FFI are offering a new course format -- the Hybrid WFR course!  Students will complete 3 weeks of online learning followed by a 5-day in-person session.  The spring 2022 Hybrid WFR courses are filling quickly.  Click here for more information!