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Brittany Smith - 2/06/10

It is difficult to decide where to begin because I feel like there is sooo much inside that I want to express. I guess I'll just start at the beginning:

I won a scholarship in 2004. It is...

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Bill Scott - 1/08/10

I was a 16 year-old student at Colorado Outward Bound's first course in June, 1962 (I'm now 64 years-young). It was a great experience, one I still cherish and profit from almost 50 years later.

Just wondering if anybody else is...

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Estefania Loeza - 12/30/09

I went to Utah and the colorado river. I backpacking and river rafting 

 

            My Out Ward Bound trip taught me so...

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Elena Korallis - 12/14/09

My church’s youth group has dome some crazy things in my day, but I don’t...

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Nick Hardigg - 11/08/09

Looking back, I consider my adult life to have started with the decision to attend Outward Bound. At age 15, coming from a small town in New Hampshire, this was something no one I knew had ever done. I had previously been swept up in whatever was...

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Greer LaPorte - 10/11/09

     I departed for O.B. when I was 23 y.o.a.  We spent the first 3 days canoeing the Chatooga River.  Followed it up with orienteering and hiking, mixed with mountain climbing and rapelling.  The long hikes...

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Michael Lothrop - 5/23/09

Hi! In the spring of 1997 (I think) I was an eighth grade student from Rockland Maine. Our class went on an Outward Bound trip hiking from Newry,Maine on the AT down to about Chatham, New Hamsphire. It was only about a five day program, but...

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Katlin Farrell - 4/09/09

Summer of 2008 was a turning point in my life, greatly in part to my experience backpacking in Sequoa National Park and Forest and Kings Canyon with the Aardvarks and our instructors, Denise Park and Matt Sperry.  I was pushed far beyond my...

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Gail S - 8/12/08

My interest in Outward Bound started when I enrolled my son in a program for 14-15 year olds. I looked through the catalog and thought I'd like to do that, and that, and that. My son never went. He injured his foot just days before the trip. Thank...

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Jeri Hall - 8/12/08

I attended Outward Bound School in one week prior to my 40th birthday.

I came to the course with many, many reservations and an abundance of fear. I knew this was going to be a trip of self-discovery, but had no clue as to how...

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