Outdoor experiential education (OEE) is about hands-on, direct experience; it's about a community of learners; it's about rapt attention and total engagement; it's about discovering oneself, one's peers and one's surroundings. The author has experienced many extended and remote wilderness trips. He has spent most of his teaching career at a dozen day and residential outdoor education centres and he appreciates that their settings offer a range of geographies and habitats that can be effectively used for a wide variety of programs at different times of year. However, the time is past due for educators to consider the downside of travelling away for OEE. Many years ago, the author read an article in which the author praised "Not in My Back Yards" (NIMBYs) for their passion and for lines of argument that were frequently very well thought out. With reference to OEE, his proposal is that educators move from NIMBY to "IMBY." The author does not say that educators should close existing outdoor education centres, but they should face it: they're not about to get many more of these relatively expensive facilities. They should get their outdoor educators to assume more of a resource role for classroom teachers. They should get their students to realize that the life support systems of this planet are all around them and that "up close and personal" can occur locally, repeatedly, relatively inexpensively, and in powerful ways that really bring home connections with themselves, their classmates, and their natural surroundings.