Our Team Building Philosophy
Experiential team building enhances confidence, trust, leadership, and problem-solving skills. Even short programs have a lasting impact, boosting self-efficacy for years after the event. Participants develop stronger communication, teamwork, decision-making, and leadership abilities through customized single or multi-day events. Research shows that the most valuable takeaways from our events are increased reports of teamwork, trust, and communication. Outdoor settings amplify these benefits by fostering openness, collaboration, and a mindset of achieving more together. We have designed more than 75 unique Corporate Team Building Events, ranging from one-hour excursions to multi-day adventures. Each one can be custom-tailored to meet your group's needs.
Benefits of Experiential Team Building
Learn & Grow
Research shows that team challenges change the way we understand our physical bodies, our relationships to others, and our own sense of self worth. Below are a few more benefits of experiential team building that has been supported by rigorous empirical research.
Make Your Time Count
Even shorter, four-hour low initiative programs appear to have a significant positive effect on self-efficacy (personal confidence). In addition, this increased confidence has been shown to remain over a six-week period.
Benefits For The Group
Enhance communication skills, improve critical thinking and problem solving skills, enhance trust, improve decision making skills, enhance teamwork, improve planning skills, enhance leadership, and enhance cooperation.
Individual Benefits
Overcoming personal limitations & prejudices, increase confidence & self-esteem, enhance coordination & agility, develop an understanding of and respect for individual differences, promote expression of authentic thought & feelings.
What is Most Valuable?
An analysis of ropes course outcomes indicated that working as a team was listed most frequently (by 16.6% of respondents), followed by developing trust (10.2%), communication (9.4%), awareness (becoming more aware of others or oneself) (6.1%), and leadership (5.9%).
Amazing Race
Race through a one-of-a-kind series of physical and mental challenges designed to improve communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. Compete against the clock (or focus on collaboration) as your team navigates checkpoints, solves riddles, and completes obstacles. Finish with a debrief and awards ceremony to reflect on key takeaways.
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Duration: 2.5 – 4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Challenges: 5-8 checkpoints with physical and mental tasks (e.g., Plank Walk, Wagon Build, Focus Ring)
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Support: Gear provided (e.g., bikes, props), structured briefing and debriefing
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Customization: Obstacles tailored to group goals.
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Eldorado Amazing Race: For over 15 years, we’ve held exclusive access to host Amazing Race events in the scenic Eldorado Canyon State Park. This one-of-a-kind experience takes place in a location unavailable to any other team-building provider—making it as unforgettable as it is unique.
Colorado Corporate Olympics
Inspired by the Olympic spirit, this multi-event leadership and team-building experience challenges participants to collaborate, compete, and celebrate their strengths. Teams of 4-6+ will represent a chosen country—real or fictional—and engage in a series of mini-Olympic events designed to promote teamwork and resilience.
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Duration: 2 – 4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Challenges: 4-10 stations
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Support: Gear provided (e.g., bikes, props), structured briefing and debriefing
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Customization: Obstacles tailored to group goals.
Game Zone
Compete in zany, high-energy games like Human Hungry Hippos, Ramblers Rodeo, and the Scooter Inertia Race. This fun-filled event blends field day excitement with teamwork challenges that boost creativity, communication, and problem-solving. Teams strategize, collaborate, and earn points while engaging in playful competition.​
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Duration: 3-5 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Activities: A mix of fast-paced, strategic, and skill-based games designed to challenge agility, memory, and teamwork
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Collaboration & Competition: Teams work together to complete challenges while competing for the highest score.
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Customization: Obstacles tailored to group dynamics and goal
Orienteering Quest
Navigate through historic mountain towns or scenic outdoor areas using GPS devices and teamwork. This experience strengthens communication, decision-making, and leadership as teams solve clues, locate hidden items, and complete cognitive challenges. Find creative photo ops and historical discoveries along the way.​
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Duration: 2-4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Collaboration & Strategy: Teams develop a game plan, adapt to new information, and work together to maximize their score while racing against the clock.
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Customization: Challenges can be tailored to include company-specific themes, historical facts, or personalized objectives.
You vs. Wild
Put your teamwork to the test in high-pressure, survival-based scenarios inspired by real-world wilderness challenges. Navigate dynamic outdoor environments, solve critical problems, and apply communication and leadership skills to successfully “rescue” your team. This immersive experience helps teams develop problem-solving techniques that transfer seamlessly to professional settings.​
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Duration: 2-4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Survival Scenarios: Teams face simulated wilderness emergencies, from locating missing teammates in rugged terrain to navigating unknown environments (e.g. zero visibility, lost teammate, glacier survival, communications lost, etc.)
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Challenge by Choice: All challenges are designed with safety in mind, ensuring everyone can participate at a level they’re comfortable with.
Interactive Scavenger Hunt
This program is designed to challenge teams with riddles and clues that lead them to hidden historical, cultural, and geographical treasures. As participants work together to navigate the course, they will strengthen collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills—while having a lot of fun along the way.​
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Duration 1-4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Dynamic Challenges: Each treasure found presents a mini team-building test focused on collaboration, decision-making, and creative thinking. (e.g., Wagon Build, Focus Ring, Maze)
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Customizable Experience: The hunt can be adapted to prioritize speed, teamwork, creativity, or problem-solving depending on your group’s objectives
Ice Sculpting
A unique hands-on experience where groups work together to carve original ice sculptures. Using only the tools provided—or negotiating trades with other teams—participants must design, sculpt, and present their masterpieces.​
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Duration: 1-3 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Team-Based Ice Carving: Groups receive a 60 lb crystal-clear ice block and must collaborate to design and carve their sculpture
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Creative Expression & Competition: Finished sculptures will be judged based on originality, complexity, and teamwork, with an optional awards ceremony.
Eco-Challenge
Modeled after classic expedition races, the rugged Eco Challenge is designed to strengthen team culture, trust, and creative thinking through dynamic outdoor activities. Guided by certified wilderness experts, teams engage in collaborative, on-the-spot problem solving and strategic tasks that emphasize safety, support, and communication. With challenges like hiking, rock climbing, archery, kayaking, slack lining, and paintball target shooting, participants are pushed beyond their comfort zones, fostering deeper bonds and stronger teamwork.
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Program Details:
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Duration: 2-4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Challenges: 5-8 checkpoints with physical and mental tasks (e.g.,hiking, rock climbing, archery, kayaking, slack lining, and paintball target shooting)
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Support: Gear provided (e.g., bikes, props), structured briefing and debriefing
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Customization: Obstacles tailored to group dynamics and goals
Experience The Journey
We design an event where use a combination of low ropes elements and countless team building games to foster a deeper understanding of each members role in the group and how to better work together. The elements and games are chosen based on your group’s goals and completing our goals assessment form.
Your mental and physical capacities will be challenged in working through the event at each element. Every element will include a test to assess, understand, implement, and evaluate how well your group collaborates and develops core team building principles.
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Duration 2-4 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Participants will participant in 3-5 team building elements or games.
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A final debrief and discussion to reflect on lessons learned and how the experience can be applied to work and life.
" We used Colorado Wilderness for a large corporate event. They offered a great selection of tours and everyone came back raving about how much fun they had and how great the guides were."
- US BUSINESS