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Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Niamh Horan-Buchanan - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 2011

21 March 19

I am Niamh Horan Buchanan and I went to outward bound loch eil on the 21st to th...

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Michael Tebbut - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1957

21 March 19

A chance encounter in 1957 with Peter West who had just returned from the one mo...

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Michael Slattery - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2008

21 March 19

The Outward Bound classic course, I have to say was probably the best 3 weeks of...

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Michael Painter - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1958

21 March 19

On a recent UK holiday I was driving around the Ullswater shoreline when my wife...

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Michael Ives - Aberdovey, Wales, 1958

21 March 19

What a shock to see a photo of Drake Watch from January 1958 submitted by Barry ...

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Michael Fisher - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1952

21 March 19

Photo: left front: M. Fisher (dark top) left rear: Y. Thomas right front: J.Rawl...

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Mervyn Buston - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1962

21 March 19

I was lucky enough to be selected by Solihull Council to go on an OB course. I i...

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Margaret Smith (Nee McGroary) - Rhowniar, Wales, 1968

21 March 19

I attended Rhowniar in February 1968. I was picked by my friend, Marion McMilla...

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Malcolm Wood - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1957

21 March 19

In 1957 my firm sent me on the Outward Bound course at Eskdale, number 76 from t...

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