Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Richard Watchus - Devon on Ashburton, 1965

16 December 09

My Outward Bound experiences have never left me, even though they were long ago....

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Robert Collier - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1954

16 December 09

I will have a stab at rekindling my memories of jan/feb 1954; it was a long time...

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Robert Ian Smart - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1961

15 December 09

As an applicant for position of Midshipman with Alfred Holt & Co of Liverpool I ...

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Hector Cameron - Aberdovey, Wales, 1944

14 December 09

Like many a fourteen year old schoolboy in 1944, I wanted to go to sea - to get ...

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richard mcconnell - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1965

14 December 09

I attended as a lad and came back as mature young man. I came from a Edinburgh h...

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Sue Carter - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1995

14 December 09

I had always loved the outdoors and the challenges it provides, so when the oppo...

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Eddie Giblin - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1970

13 December 09

whilst attending the sea school it soon became clear that almost everyone there ...

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Bernard White - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1989

12 December 09

I remember vividly the zip wire at Ullswater - and not wanting to take the chall...

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Jack Wilson - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2008

12 December 09

I truly cannot pick one moment of the Classic course I attended and call it my f...

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