Bill Murray’s Outward Bound journey began in 1985 with a 21-day Leadership Skills course at North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS). Inspired by his instructors and the transformative Outward Bound methodology, he returned to NCOBS just two years later as... READ MORE

Written by instructor, Emma Taylor As Outward Bound instructors, we provide our students with challenges to help them grow resilience and strength to overcome adversity. We teach them compassion and how to find fun in hard times. As we facilitate... READ MORE

By Nicole Fava Seventeen-year-old Jalael Edwards of Waccamaw High School is one of 13 Georgetown County, SC School District students that traveled to the Florida Everglades in December for a seven-day canoeing adventure hosted by North Carolina Outward Bound School.... READ MORE

Written by: Tya Bolton, American Leadership Forum Course Last weekend I did a thing. I went to the wilderness, faced my fears, learned about myself and the other 20+ members in my American Leadership Forum – Class XX. We had difficult conversations... READ MORE

Written by: Cait Coffey This summer, eight of Sampson County, North Carolina’s brightest young people will prepare for their college careers in the same way: by embarking on a trying, multi-day wilderness expedition with North Carolina Outward Bound School in... READ MORE

By Cassandra Biette, Outdoor Educator Course, 2012 During the last few days of my 50-day semester course with Outward Bound, everyone kept telling us that we would never fully realize all that we had learned on course until we got... READ MORE

By Elizabeth Wallace, Blue Ridge Backpacking, Rock Climbing and Whitewater Canoeing, 2011 Our band of teenagers sat around a camp stove, weary from a day of hiking further than our dirt-encrusted calves wanted to go. The sun had set on... READ MORE

On a sunny day in October, in Blowing Rock, NC, facilitators of Outward Bound Professional (OBP) Program began splitting a large group of coworkers into three smaller groups on the lawn of the town park’s baseball field. From lawyers to IT staff and... READ MORE

Everyone whose been to the Cedar Rock Base Camp knows that fall in the Pisgah National Forest is one of the best possible times to be out there. The crisp temperatures and fall foliage make every day a delight for... READ MORE

By Alumna Katie Bernard, Blue Ridge Mountains Backpacking and Whitewater Canoeing, 2018, From her personal blog Girl In the Woods I’ve always loved lying on my window-side bed at night. There, curled up with my fuzzy blankets, I could listen... READ MORE