North Cascades often gives you the best mix of glacier and rock, so it's a lot of bang for the buck so to speak.

Every thing with NOLS is slow and methodical. If you have quite a bit of experience, it may be too slow for you, but if you want to learn to DO IT on your own, instead of being guided for a while then go home, it is a good program.

BTW, I taught wilderness courses for NOLS from 2001 to 2003.