Can your group make it across the "Acid River?" Or how about
the "Cable Walk?" These group activities are great for any physical
ability level. Get ready to strengthen your minds and your team
trust!
Low Course Elements & What to Expect
- All Aboard
- Log Challenge
- Cable Walk
- The Acid River
- Spider Web
- Tension Traverse
- Commitment Bridge
- Team Wall
All Aboard
A balancing act in every sense: this element will free the group
from any remaining self-conscious feelings about touching. 'The
closer, the better' is the rule here, as the group tries to fit as
many people as possible on the platform. A great element to start
the day and get a group going!
Log Challenge
The challenge is to NOT fall off the log. Your facilitator will
have you line up in varying orders and its up to you and your
teammates to line up by height, age, etc. while all remaining on
the log together.
Cable Walk
Using only two ropes suspended from the surrounding trees, each
team member must walk the cable walk triangle from beginning to
end. As many members may be on the element at once as needed, but
if one person steps off the cable before completing the triangle,
the group must start again. This challenge begins to combine
problem solving elements where success is only achieved by working
together as a team.
The Acid River
The participants start on a bank of an acid river. There are a
number of rocks sticking above the river's surface. The group has
several planks which they may use to cross the river. If any group
member falls off a plank or a rock while crossing the river, or
should any of the planks touch or fall into the river, the group
must start over again.
Spider Web
Is your group all tangled up? This element will let your group
combine challenge and imagination in achieving a team solution. The
object is to move the entire group through the Spider Web without
touching any of the threads. Each passage hole in the web may be
used only once since the hole closes up once used. The group cannot
go over or under the web, or use the trees in their effort. Of
course, if someone touches the web, the entire group must start
over until complete.
Tension Traverse
This initiative tests the ability of members of your group to
work as a team on balance as well as strategy. The object is to
move as a group from one safe area to another, traversing over a
series of tautly strung cables. One wrong move and the group will
fall victim to the engulfing body of the peanut butter slug! (In
other words, they have to start again (of course!).)
Commitment Bridge
You've discovered the secret to eternal youth! Periodically you
have to come to this place and, with a partner, walk out on these
special rejuvenating wires. The further out the two of you get on
the cable, the longer you will live! An excellent element to
experience the values of commitment, working together, and the
rewards that come from these.
Team Wall
You and your team must - using only each other - get every team
member up and over the 12 foot vertical wall. Great element for
concluding a day's session, and also our most challenging low
course element.