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Happy Anniversary North Carolina Outward Bound

10/19/2017 by John Leave a Comment

Canoeing at sunset

A crew mate and I beginning a night paddle while on the semester course in Everglades National Park.

I am back in Asheville this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the North Carolina Outward Bound School. When I arrived at Table Rock in the fall of 1996 to be a student on a semester-long course, I was 26 years old and utterly adrift. I was depressed, unsure of myself, and where I fit in. Eighty-something days and hundreds of miles hiked and paddled later, I awoke on a mountain in Costa Rica with a sea of stars overhead and something I don’t think I had felt in far too many years: possibility. After years of being asleep, my eyes opened to the wonders of the world around me, and the realization that I can do so much more than I ever imagined. Outward Bound not only taught me how to live, it taught me how to be alive.

Thank you North Carolina Outward Bound, and Happy 50th Anniversary.

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: hiking, Outward Bound, sea kayaking, travel, whitewater, Work

The Important Places

05/15/2015 by John 2 Comments

Child of mine
Come as you grow
And you too will learn
The secret places
The cave behind the waterfall
The arms of the oak that hold you high
The stars so near on a dessert ledge
The important places
And as with age you choose your own way
Among the many faces of a busy world
May you always remember the path that leads back
Back to the important places
~Film Maker’s Father

Brought to you by Gnarly Bay

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: dirtbagway, whitewater

Journey to The Stikine and The Sacred Headwaters

05/01/2015 by John Leave a Comment

Expedition kayakers from around the world have long made the late summer pilgrimage to test themselves on the 45-mile, big-water gauntlet that is the Grand Canyon of the Stikine. But, points out Brendan Wells—checking in from a paddling expedition in Ecuador—few paddlers know of the fight to protect the vast watershed from development.

Brought to you by Mountain Mind Collective.

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