Peter Hanley - 2/07/10
Outward Bound Summer 2009
Outward Bound’s founder, Kurt Hahn, once said “There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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