Mary Lewis - 2/20/10
Hi, I'm a student that completed NCOBS. It was an amazing experience that helped me to feel more confident in my abiliies, and I also learned to work better with my teammates. I feel like I started out the course with the wrong attitude and...
Marc Daniloff - 2/15/10
Sure, we were the smart ones. With budget cuts looming, this would be one of the last times a group could drive to the departure point instead of doing a circle tour in the BWCA and Quetico. Smart ones, indeed."Let's take on the Pigeon...
Justin Sherman - 1/12/10
QTN925 The Adventure Known as Outward Bound [Wilderness] Sailing and Canoeing (Multi-expedition) The Journal of Justin Sherman, Age 16 First Outward Bound experience. Night 1 – 7/22/09, 9:40pm Journaling “Exercise” at Group Meeting • What are...
Bryce Maier - 3/15/09
I attended a Girl Scout Ten Thousand Island canoeing course over December 2007-January 2008.
Day 1: I woke up at 4 am to catch my flight to Dallas. Then I caught the connection to Miami. An Outward Bound staff person met me at the...
George Hamm - 1/28/09
Life as an Adventure
By George Hamm, Minneapolis, MN OB alum 2007
Helen Keller has been credited with the quote “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” I completed an Adult...
Georgina Graff - 1/27/09
After a long day of canoeing, all of our group sat around the campfire swapping stories of racing people for our campsite, setting up tents and things like that while eating our traditonal mac & cheese with corn dinner. All of a sudden Brody...
Paul McErlane - 1/23/09
I remember a lot from Outward Bound. I met new people made some new friends and had a good time time. But most of all I remember the counselors and how they never gave up on any of us. So a I wanna start off by saying thank you to Eric, Molly,...
Melissa Leimbach - 1/04/09
It started with a few fights with my parents. I'm not necessarily a "bad kid," it's just I tend to do risky things that end up seeming stupider after I do them than in the heat of the moment....
Jeannette Chambers - 12/15/08
I was 27 years old when I decided to take an Outward Bound course. The course represented courage and invincability whenever I heard others talking about their experience in the course. I was in awe of them. It was a time in my...
Sam R - 8/08/08
INWARD BOUND
The wall behind my bed is papered in pictures. Chock full of smiles and laughter, overflowing with happy memories of my childhood and beyond. As I go to sleep each night I stare at all the happy faces, smiling back at me....
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