Author

Colleen Wearn

Colleen Wearn is a current NOLS instructor and graduate student at Stanford, pursuing her MBA and MA in Education. Previously, she worked as an admissions officer at Dartmouth College and The Mountain School in Vermont (with summer breaks to tromp around the Rockies and Scandinavia with NOLS students, of course!). She loves trail running, backcountry skiing, and dreaming about the future of outdoor education.

Articles By Colleen Wearn

Let the Mountains Teach Us—To Fail

How to learn from failure and making mistakes in the mountains.