Yesterday was an especially productive day for James Baldwin crews here with Outward Bound. Stephanie and Aaron’s crews are both on main, which means that the instructors are stepping back and allowing students to run the show. Both crews decided to wake early, eat breakfast and hike into the high ropes course be 8:30am. Quite an impressive feat!
Students learned to belay each other and were very supportive of their crew. Nearly everyone went off the zipline as a culmination of the day at the ropes course, but the most valuable trust lessons were certainly learned by being belayed by a crew member. Stephanie and Aaron also joined the belay teams and are both quite accomplished at this point.
Upon interviewing students this morning about the best part of their day, I was surprised to learn that the high ropes course wasn’t always the number one response. Here they are:
- Making an awesome dinner of mac & cheese with veggies
- Eating a hearty dinner with my crew
- Playing guitar and harmonica with my crew
- The Giants Ladder
- Having a meaningful conversation with my crew
- Playing 21 questions in my cabin at night
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