Week of August 10: Panama Service Expedition Update

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Week of August 10: Panama Service Expedition Update

It’s our last week of high season, I repeat, our last week! These lovely ladies are currently on the Panama Service Expedition. They have been having a blast in Panama doing some gnarly wakeboarding and upside down posing! They’ve not just been playing hard though, they’ve been working hard as well! The girls have been […]

Hasta la próxima, Semester Students!

Last week Outward Bound Costa Rica bid farewell to the last of its Semester students. It’s been a wonderful few months and all of us in the Communications Office have really enjoyed hearing these students’ stories on transition days, experiencing their activities through photos and video and having the chance to watch them gain leadership […]

Tri-Country Update Nov 20

Tri-Country Semester students finished up the last leg of their whitewater rafting phase with a three-day trip on the Río General, rafting by day and camping along the river by night. But they’re not finished battling whitewater rapids just yet! They’re now spending nearly a week on the Río Savegre learning how to whitewater kayak. […]

Tri-Country Update Nov 13

Tri-Country students have been busy battling rapids for the past week! They’ve been spending their time rafting three well-known rivers in Costa Rica: the Sarapiquí, the Pejibaye and the Pacuare.

I Like Big Boofs and I Cannot Lie

Every once in awhile you learn a word that, despite having no home in the dictionary, seems to wedge its way into your vocabulary where it resides instead. After a week of kayaking with our Water & Wave semester course, my brain’s language center has a new onomatopoetic roommate – in this post I’ll introduce […]

Top 5 Outdoor Videos of 2010

As an organization that is constantly outdoors (“Outward Bound” is definitely no misnomer), we thought it necessary to compile a list of our favorite outdoor videos from 2010. Although the criteria was only loosely based on material that sparked our imagination for new experiences, made our jaws drop, or was just too awesome to miss, […]