Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Alan Healy - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 2011

4 June 11

Age seventeen, Course date: 30/05/11 - 03/06/11 When our group was on our way t...

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Jeremy Hopkinson - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1961

3 June 11

I was 17 when I went in April. The weather started badly and the first hike was ...

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Ceredig Davies-Walters - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1952

29 May 11

You quite rightly state that the Ouward Bound courses develop inner courage, con...

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Ray Wallis - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1957

28 May 11

Aged eighteen, in October 1957, I spent a month on an Outward Bound course at Es...

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Mick Rampton - Aberdovey, Wales, 1961

25 May 11

Course 212 September 1961 Beresford watch A month at Outward Bound was the hotl...

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Jock Kutylowski - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1972

24 May 11

Here are some old Photos of Shackleton Watch and Full School for that year 1972 ...

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John Barlow - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1958

23 May 11

The month long course at outward bound Ullswater was and still is the most memor...

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John Ludkiewicz - Aberdovey, Wales, 1968

19 May 11

I was a memeber of the Duke of Edinburghs scheme at school and later at the D of...

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keith frank dawson - Aberdovey, Wales, 1966

26 April 11

I remember getting on the train at scunthorpe solo and as we got near to wales t...

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