Welcome to Your Classroom.

Building Confidence

Leadership

and Resilience. 

Our courses are designed for teens, providing a unique opportunity to learn and grow while exploring some of the most awe-inspiring landscapes on earth. You’ll backpack across mountains, ice climb up towering glaciers, and navigate your way through rugged terrain, all while forging unforgettable memories with your new friends.

We guide our students to challenge themselves, develop their resilience and experience a team, while camping, backpacking, ice climbing, and exploring. 

At the Matanuska Outdoor Institute you will find a community where a person can develop personal resilience, leadership skills, and Alaskan outdoor competence that can apply to all of life’s challenges. Through adventures such as ice climbing on a glacier, backcountry travel and survival nights you develop confidence, self-reliance, teamwork and communication skills.

MOI was founded by the Alumni and Staff of MICA Guides; the premier high adventure guiding company in Alaska since 1999.

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Scholarships Available

We want our courses to be accessible to everyone.

Generous donations from our community make this program possible. Thanks to our partners, we are able to offer discounts for a limited number of students. They can’t last forever, so take advantage of them while supplies last! Sponsors and scholarship amounts will change each month. Booking earlier will save you more.

This month’s sponsor is MICA Guides. Book online and use the code MICAGUIDES to save 50% on your tuition.

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