• Step Forward.

    Find a wilderness experience
    that will challenge you

    GIVE IT A TRY NOW

  • STEP OUT
    OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.

    Choose an opportunity for a positive,
    transformational experience that will leave you
    inspired and empowered

    Take The StepLEARN MORE

  • CHALLENGE YOURSELF.

    Where will you go? What will you learn?
    Who will you become?

    SEE OUR STORY

  • DIVE INTO
    A WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE.

    Apply for a
    ROLT Wilderness Challenge Grant

    APPLY
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Grow strong

Live and grow within peer cultures that support you taking positive risks and ultimately builds self-esteem.

Positive challenges.

Sally and Steve Ryan, as parents, were masters of this reality, offering endless and constructive praise, while encouraging taking positive risks and taking on positive challenges as a means of earning self-esteem

Embrace opportunities.

(ROLT) embraces opportunities and programs that offer real physical and emotional challenges in a supportive peer culture; programs that require positive risk taking through outdoor adventure; programs that inspire young people to step out and try new things.

Welcome to the JEAN & TOM RYAN
OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP TRUST.

The Purpose of the Trust is to Support Wilderness and Outdoor Leadership Education!

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Educational experiences conducted in the WILDERNESS.

The Trust is dedicated to providing incentives and opportunities to pursue wilderness challenges, leadership, and outdoor education derived from those challenges.

The wilderness challenges and that education can be pursued through established outdoor leadership programs, including, but not limited to NOLS, Outward Bound, Rainier Mountaineering, EXUM Guides, Jackson Hole Mountain Guides or the like, and through programs and adventures developed by the grant recipient.

What our Advisory Board Members Say

Coyhaique, Chile (Patagonia)

Himalayas, Northern India

Matterhorn, Austria

Wind River Wilderness, Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains

The purpose of this Trust is to promote and support the pursuit of wilderness and outdoor education and adventures by its beneficiaries !

What are you waiting for?

The lessons and the skills that are learned are not simply applicable to the wilderness, but contribute to a better person in all aspects of life.

(ROLT) embraces opportunities and programs that offer real physical and emotional challenges in a supportive peer culture; programs that require positive risk taking through outdoor adventure; programs that inspire young people to step out and try new things.

Grow stronger
Grow confident
Get competent
Compete with others
Build your self esteem