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AORE is requesting members to review the newly released draft of the Wilderness First Responder Scope of Practices document. Please support this extremely important effort and show the wilderness medical community that the AORE has a vested interest in the outcomes of these new course SOP’s. Email all comments to Tim Mertz at mertzt@uwstout.edu
AORE is currently accepting nominations for the 2010 Jim Rennie Leadership Award sponsored by Osprey, Bill March Student Achievement Award sponsored by Osprey and David J Webb Program Excellence Award. These awards recognize AORE professional, student and program members that have made outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the field of Outdoor Recreation and Education. Nominate a member here.
The 2010 annual conference in Keystone is seeing skill-based clinics and equipment demo opportunities for the Winter Skills and Demo Day. Find out more, or submit a proposal here. AORE delegation attended Outdoor Nation Summit in New York City! We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of the Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership (JOREL) Volume 2(1). Go here to learn more. Student Scholarship info for 2010 conference on the Awards page. Apply Now! |
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Rodney Ley is currently an Assistant Director in Campus Recreation at Colorado State University. He has directed the Outdoor Adventure Program since 1990 and was an adjunct instructor the program's predecessor the Experiential Learning Program founded in 1978.Rodney founded the yurt-to-yurt ski system Never Summer Nordic in the Colorado State Forest in 1986.
Rodney received his bachelors degree in 1975 and his Master's in Education in 1999. He has served on the National Outdoor Book Awards committee since its founding and is a NOBA foundation member. He has attended 12 "AORE" conferences since 1988.
Rodney's passion is teaching students in an adventure context, and any venue will do: CSU classroom, Ouray ice fall, streets of Kathmandu, etc. Watching the transition of students grow through the process of outdoor adventure is a life enriching process.
As empty nesters Rodney and his wife Jana of 33 years are enjoying a return to calmer, quieter times full of beaches and books with an occasional microbrew thrown in.
Current favorite quote:
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne