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3/28/05

NOLS BUS TOUR COMES TO ST. LAWRENCE APRIL 7

CANTON – The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) bus, fueled by 
vegetable oil and solar power, will be on the St. Lawrence University 
campus on Thursday, April 7. In addition, NOLS staff member Dave Anderson 
will present a slide show, "The Long Walk Expedition," also on April 7, at 
7:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. The event is open 
to the public, as are visits to the bus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; it will 
be parked near the Student Center.
	The "NOLS on the Road: Finding Tomorrow's Leaders" bus tour travels 
the country bringing the non-profit school's educational program of outdoor 
skills, leadership and environmental awareness to communities across the 
nation. The bus runs on RVO, a cleaner, renewable alternative to petroleum. 
The specially adapted vehicle is refueled with RVO at restaurants. In 
addition, solar panels power audio-visual equipment, lights and computers. 
Activities include a climbing wall on the side of the bus, a caving simulation 
under the bus, fly-fishing clinics and Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS 
(WMI) clinics.
	In 2004, Anderson – a NOLS instructor since 1996 – participated in "The 
Long Walk Expedition," retracing the 1941 journey of Slavomir Rawicz. Rawicz 
escaped from a Soviet labor camp in Siberia with six fellow prisoners and 
spent a year walking over 4,000 miles of the most forbidding terrain on Earth, 
through Siberian tundra, the Gobi Desert and over the Himalayas, with no map, 
compass or supplies. The four-person 2004 expedition team retraced the route, 
provided medical supplies to remote communities along the journey and 
documented the changes to the environment and populations over the past 
60 years, through photographs.
	For more information, contact the Outdoor Programs office at St. Lawrence, 
315-229-5377.

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