Ropes course

Squinting into the mid morning sunlight, Ashleigh saw the tangle of knots that made up the Pioneers Ropes Course at Spring Lake Camp, the course that she was expected to have completed by...today. It sure does look high, she thought, and they were, that is, if you considered fifty feet in the air to be high. No one’s fell...yet. “Ashleigh! Ashleigh, where are you?” Tom, Ashleigh’s ropes counselor called. “It’s your turn!” Ohh great, Ashleigh thought. “I’m coming, Tom! I’m right…

Tree Rings Tree Rings is located on horn island, which is a small island off the coast of Darwin. Horn island itself is very green and quite undisturbed by modern life. There are many trees and only a minute fraction of the island is used for hospitality. It is quite hot and humid but the occasional rain cools the island down. These factors make Horn Island a perfect location for a new suburb which is innovative and different. In Tree Rings there are no cars, because cars make massive amounts…

A rope. That was all it took for everything to happen. A rope that caused a life to be lost, tears to flow and most importantly, someone's beloved to disappear from this world. This is the story of how my beloved, Mary died because of a rope. In the humid air of England, those who resides there would tell you, many accidents have occured before and many more would, whether it be an accident or more. Although, I have to admit, there was not one case that was as strange as Mary's. You see, Mary…

project challenge class walked toward the tightrope course. Chatting with my friends David and Joey, none of us were aware of what was lurking in our futures. Coach Pug was describing the activity that we would be doing, his loud authoritative voice boomed into deaf ears(sound imagery). Only after he said that we would be walking across a tightrope course could I feel my heart race. He split us into groups and told us that we had to make it across the course by the end of class. I could feel the…

After many days of doing nothing at home I got a call from one of the places that I applied to. The job that I had got a interview was the last place I thought I was going to the hire at. From that day my first job started at Moody Gardens as a rope course and zip line operator. When I first went for my interview I did not know what I was getting myself into. I thought that it was going to be a interview like the wants that my teacher use to tell us…

onto the high ropes course, we did a quick team-building activity on the low ropes course. Between the 20 of us, we all had to fit on four small, square platforms that were about ten feet apart, with a rope-swing in the middle. The objective of this activity was to have everyone swing across to the platform on the opposite side. The rules were as followed: everyone is allowed two swings on the rope, we were allowed to touch the ground three times before we had to start over, and the rope was not…

What does the ropes course teach or reinforce? Give an example. In the video it showed that the ropes course presents a series of challenges designed to cultivate trust and teamwork within a group(Ropes Course, n.d.). When the group did the log initiative called, “I get by with a little help from my friends” the group needed to rearrange themselves on the log in birthday order(Ropes Course, n.d.). The primary leader, Leena emerged and help get the group moving in the right direction. The group…

at recess all the girls would leap for the bucket of jump ropes. We all loved to sing our nursery rhymes and see who could jump the longest and I was nowhere near the best. Of course jumping rope alone got boring so we started to use the big ropes and jump in groups. Eventually that became unappealing as well and we decided to try something completely new, jumping with two ropes. It was nearly impossible to do. How do you spin two ropes at once without having them get caught on each…

the relationship between our unconscious bias and our behavior. During Launch into Loras and the ropes course, some of these biases were present and affected the behavior of the group. For the most part, I only judged others based on their perceived abilities…

underneath me. I knew I had to do something, and I wasn’t about to make someone come up and get me. I closed my eyes and just started to walk forward. Step after step I thought to myself “what did I get myself into”. Finally, I was at the end of the rope. “Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid”- Invictus like in the poem Invictus, I was no longer afraid. I overcame my new found fear of heights and…