My main subject area of teaching is outdoor education. I teach classes for the Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department of the University of Utah. The classes I teach for them include canyoneering, mountain biking, cooking and camping, and backpacking. I really enjoy these classes. It's fun to spend a weekend camping and playing outdoors with college students (most of the time anyway) and getting paid for it is a definite bonus!
I also teach here and there for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). I took a course in 1996 when I was 16--a 30-day backpacking course in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming--and knew I wanted to be an instructor. The ones on my course just looked like they were having so much fun, and they knew so much cool stuff. The next 4 years I worked toward becoming qualified to apply for an instructor course. I did a Wilderness EMT course (also a great experience and probably why I'm and RN now!) in the little town of Pitkin, Colorado for a month, and just worked hard at getting as many hours taking people outdoors as I could. All through college I worked at the U of U Outdoor Recreation Program, so there was ample opportunity to help lead river trips, backpacking trips, etc.
In the year 2000 I got accepted on a NOLS instructor course. I was back in the Wind Rivers again, this time in the snow, with a heavy pack on snowshoes. It was one of the most fun things I've ever done. Except for when I popped my shoulder mostly out of joint practicing self-arrest without an ice ax. I had to sit out most of the 2-week climbing camp. I got to work a lot on my anchor building and rescue techniques.

Hi my name is Jenny. I am an RN and work at a newborn intensive care unit and an orthopedic operating room. I also teach for the U of U in the parks, recreation, and tourism dept. I teach occasionally for the National Outdoor Leadership School.
I like to ride bicycles, ski, backpack, and garden.