Outcomes
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Better decision-making processes
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Clearer communication under ambiguity
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Stronger collaboration and accountability
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Increased adaptability when plans change
Ideal For
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Leadership teams
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Strategy sessions
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Cross-functional groups
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Organizations navigating change
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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Program Details:
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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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Program Details:
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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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Program Details:
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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
Aviation Creation
A unique hands-on experience where groups work together to build an object that takes flight. Using only the tools provided—or negotiating trades with other teams—participants must design, build, and present their masterpieces.​
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Program Details:
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Duration: 1-3 hours, based on group size, goals, and time constraints
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Team-Based Aviation Creation: Groups receive various materials and must collaborate to design and build their flying object
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Creative Expression & Competition: Finished objects will be judged based on originality, complexity, and teamwork, with an optional awards ceremony.
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%).
" 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