Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Colin Barnard - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1968

19 June 17

An Eclectic bunch of city boys, were thrown together, in an achingly beautiful p...

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Frank Dawsom - Aberdovey, Wales, 1964

15 June 17

I set off from Scunthorpe solo on to aberdovey just a single rail line to be gre...

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Peter Lenius - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1950

14 May 17

I will tell my story as German participant 5 years after the end of a terrible w...

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John Grice - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1967

8 May 17

Outward Bound Generations Course U118 – 10th April to 6th May 1967. I am now 67 ...

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Ray Tims - Aberdovey, Wales, 1957

28 March 17

As I start to write today (19.55. 25.03.2017) I look back to my OBSS Aberdovey L...

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Douglas Chambers - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 1967

16 March 17

The outdoors life has been part of my very being since my aunty Janet introduced...

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Alex Collier - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1971

6 March 17

Friends and family told me that this was a great opportunity and so I agreed to ...

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Peter Smith - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1955

24 February 17

On a cold winters day in February I changed trains at Crewe and felt a massive a...

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Karl Hewitt - Aberdovey, Wales, 1984

24 January 17

I attended Aberdovey in 1984 and must say had 3 of the best weeks of my life on ...

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