A tribute to Karl Rohnke Written by: Margo Nottoli It was a cold and foggy day, in fall 1969, the first time I drove up to the Table Rock Base Camp. I’d been told there was no educational model as... READ MORE

Written by: Margo Nottoli Standing beside the beautifully tiled compass rose at North Carolina Outward Bound’s (NCOBS) Arthur M. Blank Headquarters, it’s hard to believe and important to remember that the School’s first headquarters was a humble brown trailer at... READ MORE

Asheville Citizen Times, July 26, 2017 ASHEVILLE – Andrew Williams Jr., 66, recounts each day of an outdoors adventure he took 50 years ago as if still living it. He describes scaling mountains in the winter, trekking a half-mile through... READ MORE

By Ryan Wilusz Staff Writer, Morganton News Herald He looks behind him and then straight ahead — not a soul in sight. He sits on the ground all alone, with a couple quarts of water and a tin can of... READ MORE

“His being is more than his doing.” One of the things that has made North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS) exceptional since our founding is our team of dedicated instructors and staff. For nearly 50 years, these pioneers in experiential... READ MORE

“Young people today need authentic adventure,” said Josh Miner in a 1964 article in the Princeton Alumni News. The article, which inspired many that year, highlighted Miner’s efforts to introduce a unique experiential education methodology called Outward Bound to the United... READ MORE