By Annie Jonas, May 7, 2020 Stay at home orders coupled with the end of my semester teaching at a small college meant enough idle time to scroll through Instagram to find Outward Bound’s announcement about a Virtual Personal Challenge... READ MORE

By Leigh Luter Schell, April 30, 2020 Junior year of college, one of my housemates spent a semester on an Outward Bound course in Baja, Mexico. She came back hairy, tanned and happy in a confident “let it go” kind... READ MORE

What does it mean to be resilient in a time like this? What does it look like to face adversity and unknowns with the same confidence and undefeatable spirit of a voyageur setting off into uncharted waters? We turn to... READ MORE

By Addie Hurwitz, From her personal blog, November 21, 2019 ATLANTA Most of the Service Bus crew knows that NCOBS runs programs in Atlanta, GA, but we had never been there or met anyone involved. Our two day stop in Atlanta... READ MORE

By Addie Hurwitz, From her personal blog, November 18, 2019 From the Florida Keys, we drove north to the NCOBS Everglades Base Camp in Florida, known as Sunset Island. This base camp is a neat place to be, as it is... READ MORE

By Jim Gray, Former NCOBS Board Member Kay Hagan was the epitome of someone who served, strove, and did not yield—in the face of three years of debilitating disease. For 10 years she served with distinction in leadership positions in... READ MORE

Fall is Educator’s Season at NCOBS: Back to School in the mountains for Pattern Interrupts and Pattern Establishment  “Adventure is activity on one’s personal frontiers.” Frank D. Bell, Founder of Camps Mondamin & Green Cove in Tuxedo, NC We all... READ MORE

By Addie Hurwitz, From her personal blog, November 10, 2019 PART 1: Hollywood – FINS Office After leaving the Scottsmoor Base Camp, we headed south to Hollywood, FL to visit the Families In Need of Services (FINS) office. As mentioned in my... READ MORE

By Addie Hurwitz, From her personal blog, November 6, 2019 PART 1 Where we last left off, the Service Bus had just completed three days of trail service in the Linville Gorge with Wild South, and was headed south to Asheville,... READ MORE

By Addie Hurwitz, From her personal blog, October 31, 2019 The Service Bus is rolling! Let me start out by introducing the NCOBS 2019 Service Bus crew. Currently there are four of us, with the possibility of one or two... READ MORE