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    URBAN MIND

    Dec 03, 2019 3 minutes

    LEAVE YOUR CELLPHONE AT HOME

    Cell phones are becoming better adventure tools every day. You can find what feels like endless apps for navigation, trip guides, even stargazing. So why, when you look through a National Outdoor Leadership School’s (NOLS) equipment list, is a cell phone nowhere to be found?

    NOLSies will answer this in different ways—some might point out that most of our course areas are in such remote wilderness that cell phones will work about as well as a pile of Legos for communication, and others will point

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