By Alumna Val Leeper, Professionals Program, 2016 I’m not completely sure how any of us thinks we actually know something. How we definitively have it in our pocket. And that isn’t a cynical statement any more than it’s the first... READ MORE

By Alumnus Henry Cox, American Explorers Program Hello, I’m Henry Cox, a sophomore at Charles R Drew Charter School, and I spent two weeks in the summer of 2015 backpacking with Outward Bound in North Carolina. I came to Outward Bound through... READ MORE

By Alumni Allan Bassler, 28-day Blue Ridge Mountains Backpacking Course, 1987 It was with a strange mixture of sadness, pride and relief that I hugged my son in the airport. At age 18, he was shipping off to Navy boot camp.... READ MORE

By Alumni Allan Bassler, 28-day Blue Ridge Mountains Backpacking Course, 1987 My Outward Bound experience happened in pre-GPS days, a 28-day course in the mid-1980s. They taught us wilderness navigation using paper maps and a compass. Our main experience was hiking. ... READ MORE

By Instructor Shane Ambro, 2016 Our Spring 72-Day International Leadership Semester course hosted 11 students ranging from ages 18-23, from all over the country. Together they traveled to Patagonia, the Florida Everglades, and the mountains of North Carolina. They did a... 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 Meg Turner, Principal at Owen High School in Asheville, NC  Recent events at Owen High School have made me more committed than ever to the Outward Bound process. What happened here is proof that the group dynamics, the seeds... 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

The Transylvania Times, August 3, 2015 Teen volunteers from Outward Bound and the Rotarian Youth Leadership have been helping out at Rice Street Community Garden this summer. The teens, aged 14 to 18, harvested vegetables, watered plants, pulled weeds, filled... READ MORE