Criss Cross

Description: Four to eight people at a time can try to cross from one tree to another by walking on suspended cables to complete the mission.

Objectives: To discover team dependence and community. Also to have fun while setting goals and working through perceived impossibilities as a team.

Wild Woozy

Description: Two partners depend on each other to traverse as far as possible along two progressively widening cables.

Objectives: To explore and grow in physical, mental, and spiritual trust and dependence within a partnership. Learn that you cannot accomplish everything alone.

Hole in Space

Description: Pass each group member through a hanging tire to get them from one dimension to the other.

Objective: Achieve a higher level of support and trust from the group. Discover team characteristics that have not yet surfaced and heighten the sense of accomplishment.

Mine Shaft Elevator

Description: The entire group must board and balance a teetering platform in order to exit the mine shaft.

Objectives: Develop leadership, listening, and problem solving skills, while building spatial awareness and comfort in being a part of a team.

Trust Fall

Description: From 3 different levels, fall backward from a platform into the arms of your group.

Objectives: Develop a greater trust and sense of community within the group. Begin to deal with the effects of perceived risk and heighten motivation to move onto other challenges.

All Aboard

Description: Situate the whole group on a small platform without any body part touching the ground for a set amount of time.

Objective: Get to know each other and begin to feel comfortable with physical contact. Start to understand the group make-up.

Spider’s Web

Description: Move the whole group from one side of the spider’s web to the other without upsetting the giant sleeping spider.

Objectives: Review the group’s ability to plan and deal with potential success and failure. Allows for group problem solving, conflict management, and develops perseverance in a stress-filled situation.

Nitro Crossing

Description: Pass over an imaginary canyon transporting a container full of life saving serum.

Objectives: Group planning and collaboration and dealing with success and failure. Realize and account for individual differences. Examine effective communication skills.

Horizontal Beam

Description: Get the entire group over a suspended horizontal beam.

Objectives: Utilize individual differences and abilities to develop problem solving skills, group support, and a heightened sense of achievement.

Meat Grinder

Description: Last way out…send your group through the factory meat grinder to escape the burning building.

Objective: Utilize individual differences. Develop problem solving abilities and group support.

T.P. Shuffle

Description: Arrange the group in a sequential line without stepping off the pole.

Objective: Begin to laugh and relax. Feel comfortable with helping each other and accepting help from others.

Trolleys

Description: Move the group from point A to point B with the use of two long wooden planks and ropes for hand holds. The group must make it to point B safely without any body parts touching the ground.

Objective: Determine the natural group leadership and deal with the surfacing the surfacing of conflict. Develop the whole team in being a role player in the process of achievement.

A Frames

Description: Walk a giant wooden A from point A to point B.

Objective: Use team member’s strengths to develop communication and begin to problem solve together.