By Alumna Dakota Z., Intercept Program  Day 27: Awakening quickly to the sound of watch alarms, you eventually sit up in your sleeping bag mentally preparing yourself for the last full day. Luckily, your group has been staying in a... READ MORE

By Alumna Dakota Z., Intercept Program  Day 22: In amusement, you awaken to several giggly group mates in their sleeping bags that also resemble caterpillars. The night before, your group ended up paddling a good distance past your campsite, so... READ MORE

By Alumna Dakota Z., Intercept Program  Day 15: The day you have nervously anticipated is finally here. Your first full day of your solo experience… The term “solo” might seem quite scary to those who are used to being surrounded... READ MORE

By Alumna Dakota Z, Intercept Program Day 8: In the blink of an eye, day eight has arrived. You’ve paddled several miles on the Suwannee River and you’ve mastered the perfect way to sleep comfortably in your tent. You awaken... READ MORE

By Alumna Kami O., Outward Bound Veteran Program  It’s hard to put into words what my 10,000 Islands Canoe trip did for me. To be honest, I still think I’m trying to figure it all out, myself. It was definitely not... READ MORE

By Alumna Cathia Friou, From It Is Solved By Walking Blog, 10,000 Islands Sea Kayaking Back in 2011, I went sea kayaking with some fellow mid-lifers on an Outward Bound excursion in Florida. As one of the oldest and most respected outdoor... READ MORE

By Alumna Cathia Friou, From It Is Solved By Walking Blog My parents still live in the same house I grew up in. They have been there for 44 years and have no plans to take the townhome or retirement community... READ MORE

By Alumni PA Supreme Court Justice Correale Stevens, Parent-Child Course, 1998 It was 1998, and I received a phone call no one wants, my doctor telling me I had non-hodgkins lymphoma for the second time in my life. Although this... READ MORE

Ethan shares about his canoeing expedition down the Florida Waterways with NCOBS' Struggling Teen Program... READ MORE

By Nicole Fava, NCOBS Alumna and Associate Director of Marketing, 2015 I have always believed that there is a power to the wilderness. The way the birds chatter and the wind rustles the trees-it gives you pause, it makes you... READ MORE