🚧 Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Sue Freer - Rhowniar, Wales, 1969

21 March 19

I attended a four-week course at Rhowniar in August 1969, just after my A levels...

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Stuart Slater - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1959

21 March 19

Proudest 'group' achievement - we were the first.... After leaving Accrington o...

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Stuart Clarke - Devon on Ashburton, 1968

21 March 19

I took away a strong sense of achievement & pride as well as learning principles...

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Steven Cook - Aberdovey, Wales, 1975

21 March 19

Best weeks of my life, Helping others, overcoming fears, and great new experienc...

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steve Thomas - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1972

21 March 19

My course was U167J. I arrived in trepidation! Horror stories of cold showers an...

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Steve Mills - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2006

21 March 19

My experience was as a corporate sponsor who got the opportunity to spend time a...

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Stephanie Ross - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2011

21 March 19

Hargreaves team were on their final expedition in the most vile weather conditio...

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Roy P Sweetland - Aberdovey, Wales, 1944

21 March 19

ur small party assembled at Paddington Station for the journey to Aberdovey, the...

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Roy Barbor - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1952

21 March 19

I left school with a choice of two jobs. One down the mines or a factory job. No...

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