Catherine Granton - 10/14/09
I was privileged to participate in a Women-Only Sailing Course out of Wheeler's Bay, Maine in September 2007, led by Wendy Jordan & Wicktham. At the time I was a returning adult student on my way to a CUNY BA in Womens Studies &...
Stephanie Dye - 8/03/09
~// A Letter Home: Tales of Outward Bound \\~This letter was sent to my parents during my 28-day Downeast trip in Maine.7/2/09
Dear Mom & Dad,
This morning's dip left us feeling refreshingly warm,...
John Kilroy - 7/21/09
APOLLO 11, Outward Bound H-17
40 years ago and a few days before Armstrong walked on the moon, I was 'enjoying' my solo on Little Ray Island in Penobscot Bay. In the years since I'd developed the terribly...
Kristen - 7/17/09
I didn't know what time it was; we weren't allowed to bring our watches with us. The unfamiliar feeling of having a naked wrist made me constantly feel like something was missing, like maybe I forgot to put my pants on that morning. I craved to...
Tim Zegel - 6/27/09
I'm a 47 year old man. When I went to outward bound, I was a fifteen year old boy. It was on hurricane island that I spent thirty days with bunch people I did not know. We climbed the wall the rope course, sailed all over the bay...
Kelly Fritz - 6/16/09
Letter to my group, written on solo:
When asked about their friends people will often say...oh, we've been friends since we were born, or I'm practically part of their family....
Annie Gardner - 4/24/09
This is an abstract story I wrote just this fall (2008), two years after my course in the summer of 2006. It is not all true, some parts exadgerated, and some I imagined. It is very abstract, but it is based on my experience and i believe...
larry Gassan - 3/18/09
Hurricane Island (Legacy Outward Bound School)
H37: August 1971
I was admitted to Outward Bound as a probationary candidate. The normal minimum was 16-1/2, but my 16th birthday was 3 days before the end of the course. My...
Jenny Wittman - 8/11/08
Just as John Denver wrote that he was ‘born in the summer of his 27th year', for me it was the fall of my 26th when I officially became Outward Bound. Outward Bound, in the literal sense, is a nautical term meaning that a ship is leaving the...
Greg T - 8/08/08
My greatest fear
What is your greatest fear? It's a classic question in pseudo-deep group icebreakers, or on a college application. I've always tried to conjure an answer sufficiently more profound than spiders or heights. But this...
