This course is designed for those individuals who are seeking exposure to a wide variety of wilderness leadership skills and training and how to apply them. The remote wilderness of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado will serve as the container for our learning experience. It is a wonderful place to connect with nature, practice awareness and contemplative skills, be challenged, and discover your own unique leadership style. We will camp in high alpine cirques, hike along deep, clear lakes, through grassy slopes and alpine flowers, cross cascading creeks, traverse over mountain passes, and climb (weather permitting) to spectacular views at the summits of Broken Hand, Crestone, or Humboldt Peaks. Through experience, lecture, and discussion we will address trip preparation, safety, camp craft, guiding, Earth-living skills, basic mountaineering, and outdoor teaching. We will cover how to read a topographical map and compass, how to navigate safely through remote mountain terrain, how to facilitate a group, and work with group dynamics. The undercurrent of the course will be the exploration of the spiritual, therapeutic, relational, and metaphorical elements of the wilderness.