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Example of a high ropes course at night Rope climbing at the Alpine Center Bottrop, built by insight-out, Germany. A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity which usually consists of high elements, low elements, or some combination of the two. Low elements take place on the ground or above the ground.
After seeing challenge courses such as the Dalajamb World Jamboree International Encampment in Sweden, which offered a woodland pioneering course complete with zip lines and bridges, the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America was interested in offering similar programs nationwide. [12] The first Project COPE took place in 1980. [11]
New as of Summer 2016, the Ropes Course is located just past Wanish and Promise Lake. It consists of a shaded picnic area as well as several structures related to each challenge in the course. The Ropes Course at Camp Scherman is a low-ropes course. The elements are focused mostly on teamwork rather than heights.
It offers a range of activities including climbing, high ropes, trails and courses, zip line and target activities. [107] The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, affected the site badly and in October 2020 the Scout Association announced that Downe was being closed and sold off with the site closing entirely in January 2021.
Target activities offered include archery, tomahawk throwing and air rifle shooting. Water activities are limited to raft building and kayaking due to the relative small size of the pond on site. Other notable instructor-led activity sessions include backwoods cooking, shelter building, low ropes, pedal go-karts and zorbing. [29]
Facilities include a 75-acre (300,000 m 2) private lake, indoor and outdoor hockey rinks, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m 2) gymnastics room, indoor, and outdoor basketball courts, two heated pools, a 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) art center, a high ropes adventure course, a low ropes team building circuit, a 40-foot (12 m) high rock wall, horse ...
Camp Orkila's main property is situated on the northwest shoulder of Orcas Island, and is approximately 280 acres in size. This property includes many cabins for campers to sleep in, as well as two lodges, though only one is currently being used for eating, two campfire pits, low and high ropes team building courses, a junior-Olympic sized pool, a Marine Salmon Center (often called the MSC), a ...
The campus is also home to a high and low ropes course, a solar field, a meditation grove, a mile of trails, two athletic fields, and two playgrounds. The early childhood program is housed in a newly renovated 18th-century farmhouse, lending the program the informal name "The Farmhouse."