Outward Bounders sought
Mountains, rapids are classrooms
Application forms for Outward Bound will be available at the SUA forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Forum Room. Norm Bos, Hutchinson junior who has participated in the Outward Bound program, will present a 45-minute color film about the program.
Outward Bound is a 26-day endurance program which builds leadership through experience and brings high adventure from hard work. Individual skills such as mountain climbing, expedition techniques, and navigation on the rapids are learned at the five Outward Bound schools in the United States, Bos said.
Six sessions will be sponsored during the summer in the schools located in Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina and at Hurricane Island, approximately 10 miles offshore of Penobscot Bay, Maine, he said.
Originally a course designed for young men, girls' schools are now operated at the schools in Minnesota and Oregon.
Bos said applicants must be over 16½ years of age, in good health and must have the desire to complete the Outward Bound
program. There is no upper age limit and no need for previous experience, only the desire to do one's best, he said.
Some scholarships, in the form of loans and grants will be available. Approximate tuition is $500, he said.
At the North Carolina school on the slopes of Tablerock Mountain, students are trained for mountain search and rescue, river rafting and wilderness travel, among other skills, he said. At the Hurricane Island school students spend days in 30-foot whaleboats acquiring such skills as navigation.
A variety of challenges are presented at each school. At the Minnesota school located on a densley forested peninsula in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area a few miles from Canada, Outward Bound students learn canoeing, kayaking, portaging, rock climbing, orienteing, cooking, emergency medical aid, and rescue techniques, he said.
Moutaineering skills are taught at the Colorado school, approximately 10 miles west of Aspen, while in the Northwest school, approximately 75 miles east of
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NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — High seas and 30-mile-an-hour winds wrapped two 10-mile arms of a growing oil slick around an island wildlife refuge Tuesday and threatened to whip the pollution toward Louisiana's rich offshore beds of shrimp and oysters.
Fighters of two renegade wells spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico counted on rip tides as a last hope of keeping the messy slick away from land.
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The vast oil spill jutted like two giant fingers around Breton Island, a two-mile-long refuge for migratory birds 12 miles off the coast.
A team of men hoping to drive waterfowl away and save them from death went to the island and fired shotguns, firecrackers and small aerial bombs to scare the birds.
Eugene, Ore., students learn crevasse rescue, snow and ice training, and other mountaineering skills in the Cascades, he said.
"The operation seemed successful for all but a small species of beach birds that would not leave," a Coast Guard official said.
Bos said that instructors at each school teach skills through personal example and close attention with the understanding that the individual and group are being trained to become totally independent of his presence.
Migratory birds use the island as a stopping off place while moving north as the seasons change.
Training is provided early in the course, the instructors striving not only to teach numerous specific skills but to raise the individual student's level of physical fitness and degree of personal initiative, he said.
After the initial learning experience, students apply what they have been taught, going to the cliffs to rely on a lesson about
handling a climbing rope just presented to them, he said.
Competition at Outward Bound schools is between the different nine to 12 man patrols at the schools, he said.
Each patrol takes expeditions which test training in specific skills, physical limits, initiative, leadership and group cooperation. Frequently, patrols take expeditions that have not been attempted before in wilderness areas, Bos said.
Although the patrol instructor will be present on shorter expeditions, the final trip is taken alone by the patrol, which choosees its own routes and objectives and plans all its own food, gear and timetables, he said.
Bos said each school trains
students in emergency medical aid, and depending on the environment, firefighting, search and rescue and lifesaving techniques. Although not every patrol faces emergencies, in the past, Outward Bound students have evacuated mountaineering casualties and battled major forest fires, he said.
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