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

Written by: Margo Nottoli Standing beside the beautifully tiled compass rose at North Carolina Outward Bound’s (NCOBS) Arthur M. Blank Headquarters, it’s hard to believe and important to remember that the School’s first headquarters was a humble brown trailer at... READ MORE

By Nya L., FINS Program Alumni My name is Nya and I’m going to speak on a few things I’ve learned in the course of 20 days. This course was something that was definitely out of my comfort zone, but... READ MORE

By Matthew Merritt, Blue Ridge Backpacking and Rock Climbing, 2018 It was a clear sunny day at the end of October. You could sense the Halloween spirit in the air, the adventurous spirit in my bones and the sugary spirit... 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

When North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS) founded Outward Bound Atlanta (OBA) in 1990, we searched for corporate partners with a strong ethic of community responsibility. Georgia-Pacific emerged as a like-minded leader and in 1992, they became a partner in... READ MORE