Team Adventures

Ropes Course / Rock Climbing & Rappelling / Caving / Hiking / Corporate Campout

Ropes Course

The Ropes Course is an upbeat, success-oreinted program that's fun and suitable for all abilities. This non-competitive program offers fun, challenging activities -- all of which are voluntary. Team members are encouraged to perform to their potential, freely and without pressure.

Venture Up has a long-standing track record working with a world of diversity -- Fortune 100 firms involving staff from the president to the front line, to hundreds of culturally diverse sales staff meeting from around the world, to schools, small businesses and government agencies.

Two types of activities are involved in the Ropes Course, all requiring trust, effective communication and mutual support for success. High elements rise up to 30 feet above the ground; and low elements, also known as Strategic Games, are at ground level. Some may involve physical activity, while others focus mainly on creative thinking and problem-solving.

The Ropes Course is an upbeat, success-oreinted program that's fun and suitable for all abilities. This non-competitive program offers fun, challenging activities and all are voluntary. Each team member's decision to participate empowers them to perform to their potential, freely and with encouragement, out no pressure.

Venture Up has a long-standing track record working with a world of diversity -- multinational firms involving staff from the president to the front line, to hundreds of culturally diverse sales staff meeting from around the world, to schools, small businesses and government agencies.

Corporate leaders are drawn to our Ropes Course because of its long-term effectiveness in the workplace. Through the ropes course, the company has paved the way for executives to learn something new about themselves. After the program, all participants can expect to feel a new and profound sense of confidence. "In a matter of hours they discover the difference between what they think they can accomplish and what they can actually do -- individually and as team players.

Rock Climbing & Rappelling

Rock Climbing and Rappelling with Venture Up is fun and possible for all abilities. The Corporate Climbing program is designed to put a seemingly impossible experience within everyone's reach.

Whether climbing natural rock or ascending one of our custom climbing walls, novice climbers can feel the exhilaration of success within minutes of their first ascent

Our portable Corporate Climbing Towers, some stretching 45 feet high, may be set up almost anywhere, indoors or outdoors. Simulated rock footholds make climbing easier. Singles, partners and teams of three can ascend in safe, controlled conditions.

Venture Up's newest addition is a 25 foot, state-of-the-art fiberglass climbing tower. It looks and feels like real rock and has lifelike flora and fauna.

Venture Up guides and instructors are veterans of world class adventure sports, are well educated, and seasoned teachers in high adventure. As one of the first in the nation accredited by The American Mountain Guides Association, Venture Up has retained its high level safety record since 1983. The AMGA affirmed that Venture Up's safety practices exceed industry standards.

Caving

You won't find platforms and handrails caving Venture Up-style, but you will see spectacular cave formations and learn about caving preservation and conservation in a full-day adventure to remember for a lifetime. Suited for all abilities, the cave experience requires walking, climbing, and some crawling through small passages which open to large and small rooms -- many filled with geological formations.
Under expert direction, participants explore the cave using roping systems to gain access to the cave's roofs and pits. The year round temperature of the cave is about 78 degrees. The underground environment may alter your sense of time; we may be in the cave for 6 hours but it may seem less. The trip requires no prior experience, but this is no nature walk. Recommended only for the adventurous and environmentally aware.

Hiking

Phoenix Scottsdale Tucson

Classic wilderness hiking is minutes away from the cities of Scottsdale, Phoenix and Tucson. In a few hours, hikers of all levels experience a world of unusual plants and wildlife found only in the Sonoran Desert. Phoenix hosts the bulbous red rocks of Camelback Mountain, and South Mountain Park, the largest city park in the world. Scottsdale, known for its world class resorts and prime golf courses, breaks way to some of the most rugged terrain on earth. Tucson is famed for Saguaro National Park, and the Santa Catalina Mountains that stretch from the desert floor to the ponderosa pine, hosting plants representing 7 elevation zones.

Camelback Mountain

South Mountain

South Mountain Park is the largest city park in the world, rich in cultural history and an ideal place for hiking, llama trekking, horseback riding and mountain biking. Records show the area was first claimed for Spain by Father Marcos de Niza who traveled throughout the area in 1539. The Yaqui Indians once settled here in a village called Guadalupe, and Father Kino also passed the area. American settlers didn't come until 1838. This vast hilly desert also offers a chance to see petroglyphs carved into rock faces as early as 1,500 years ago. A fabulous 6-mile hike skirts the entire ridge of South Mountain. The mountains are 1,600 feet at the highest point and create the southern border of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The program lasts 3 hours.

Scottsdale Nature Hike

agged crags, canyon walls and centuries-old cacti mark the rugged terrain of North Scottsdale. Rich in cultural and natural history, the Sonoran Desert spreads over thousands of acres, providing a home for animals, plants and reptiles found no place else in the world. History shows more than 200,000 pre-Columbian Indians flourished here into the late 1600s, building elaborate canal systems, some of which are used today to bring water to the Valley of the Sun.

During this trip, hikers learn about desert plants and their uses in serving the area's birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects. Pre-Columbian and modern civilizations used many of these plants for medicine and therapy.

Suitable for all physical abilities, the area is ideal for those seeking more than a flat-land trek. The route ascends a moderate incline to the base of Tom's Thumb, where vast views of the Valley and desert wilderness await. The summit of Tom's Thumb -- a massive 150-foot granite spire rising 2,000 feet from the desert floor -- is accessible only by rope. The program lasts 3 hours.

Santa Catalina Mountains

The Santa Catalina Mountains bordering Tucson represent one of few sky islands in the U.S. Hikers have a rare opportunity to travel from the desert floor to ponderosa pine in a 6-mile trek. Few places on earth offer such a variety of fauna and flora in such proximity. The route is the Catalina Passage, part of the Arizona Trail -- an intricate system that the U.S. Forest Service is now establishing across Arizona, similar to the Appalachian Trail of the East. Hikers begin exploring the Sonoran Desert before trekking upward through terrain that hosts plants from 7 elevation zones. The route's uphill trekking varies from easy to difficult.

Out of the office and into the woods ... or to the canyon, riverside, desert or mountainside. Venture Up's Corporate Camp goes just about anywhere. We supply full scale corporate campout facilities so groups of up to 150 people can rough it in style. Facilities may be rented for your own private program, film shoots, or may be offered in combination with any of our overnight adventures.

Meeting Facilities:

• Large-scale meeting tents with lighting, flooring, and quality public address system
• Audio visual services
• Mobile telephones & radios
• Top quality music sound system

• Cabin-style tents, 120 square feet, 6 feet high at center
• Canopy tents, 200-300 square feet, 8 feet high at center
• Sleeping bags, pads & pillows
• Comfortable sleeping cots
• Battery-powered lanterns
• Chest of drawers
• Wilderness meal and dining facilities
  

International Expeditions

Venture Up provides incentive travel and training programs for corporate groups to classic alpine areas worldwide. See our section on International Expeditions.

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