In 1959, Chuck Froelicher, CO Academy Headmaster (Denver), interviewed Ted Hopkins who had been to Outward Bound in England as student. Froelicher was inspired by the approach to education, and from this conversation began the task of getting the 14th OB school in the world, and first in western hemisphere initiated. By the end of June 1961 the Colorado Outward Bound School had filed its certificate of incorporation and held its first Board of Trustees meeting. The school had acquired 41 acres of land. Assisted by a volunteer force of about 20 students from Colorado Academy, Tapley had pioneered the access road to the Marble base camp and together they had surveyed, dug, and blasted sewer and water lines (yes, students did this!) Frolicher, the founding president of COBS still lives in Denver, and remembers the pioneering days with incredible accuracy and detail.
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