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Outward Bound"The Mission of Outward Bound is to conduct safe,
adventure-based programs structured to inspire self-esteem, self-reliance, concern for
others, and care for the environment." Outward Bound is a series of schools around the world that use the experiential learning philosophies of Kurt Hahn to challenge participants to work as a team, stretch their mental and physical limits, and to engage in introspection about themselves through the conscious use of metaphors in wilderness-based activities. The school has its roots in a training program for British sailors in World War II. Outward Bound's history and philosophy is fascinating and is reflected in a common set of activities used in each of the schools. They include initiatives designed to break down barriers between people and build bonds like the Trust Walk, team work challenges like the Wall, physical exercise like the infamous Run and Dip, and physical and mental challenges like the Ropes course and rock climbing and rapelling. On top of that, each school has a set of outdoor themes - like open ocean sailing at the Hurricane Island school or mountaineering and alpine backpacking at the Colorado school. The Career and Personal Renewal CourseThe following decription is sent to participants by the Colorado OBS: "This course follows a 7-day format that moves from basecamp activities to rafting and then to backpacking. It is meant to be a crossroads experience, designed to stimulate your creativity, help you change direction and address balance in your life and career. The experiential nature of the Outward Bound curriculum provides hands-on opportunities to explore risk-taking, change, challenge, problem-solving and self-direction. Through success-oriented challenges requiring teamwork and personal effort, the Life/Career Renewal course also enhances self-confidence, illuminates the importance of support systems, motivates compassion and enriches personal experience.Challenges are designed to impel you to risk and draw upon inner resources for success as well as develop trust in one another. Throughout the course you are asked to communicate and share in debriefing sessions after each activity. You also develop a life/career renewal plan that helps you weave insights from the course into your daily life. This course takes place in a wilderness setting. You will sleep in sleeping bags on the ground under tarps and cook your own meals (as a group) over backcountry stoves. You are instructed in Leave No Trace camping skills as you head into the backcountry." There is additional description in the Colorado Outward Bound School catalog. YOUR COURSE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SAWACH RANGE."Native Americans were the first to live among these peaks, although no one is sure who first climbed them. In more recent times, the Spanish launched major expeditions into these mountains, searching for gold and precious minerals. The first documented exploration of the Colorado Rockies was undertaken in 1776 by two Franciscan priests. From that point on, Colorado became a magnet for prospectors, explorers and pioneers." "This range contains the three highest peaks in Colorado. Many of the prominent peaks in the southern part of the range were named for the alma maters of early explorers and surveyors and are commonly referred to as the Collegiate Peaks. Professor J. D. Whitney, who led one of the first and most famous survey parties through Central Colorado, named Mt. Harvard after the school that funded the expedition. Another massif became Mt. Princeton, named for the Princeton University Scientific Exploration survey teams. There's also Mt. Yale, Columbia and Oxford. Many "first ascents" in this range can be attributed to nameless miners searching for gold and silver, both abundant. The silver bust of 1893 caused many once-booming cities to become ghost-towns.
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