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On The Range Adventure Tours team building programs are unique,
challenging, fun and keep everyone involved. We can combine a selection
of events to create ½ days or whole days of activity. These activities
can of course be extended to incorporate as many ½ or whole days
as desired. And, we can divide your group into any number of teams that
will spend the day competing in, enjoying, and learning from an assortment
of events and challenges.
Many of our events can be completed in as little as 15 minutes, making them perfect for breakout sessions, though most of our exercises are somewhat longer. Groups can often complete 3 - 4 of our individual events within an hour to an hour and a half, and can comfortably complete 5 of our events within a three hour time frame. All of our activities are easily adaptable to group size and many can be conducted either indoors or outdoors.
Pricing will vary depending on the number of individuals participating in an event, on the length of the event, and on the particular team building event selected. Ask us for an exact price based on your group and your specific choice of activities.
Here are some exciting ideas as to how to spend ½ day with your team.
| "Survivor" in the Rockies" | ||
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| We've all seen the show, now try our own home grown mountain version! This challenge combines many of our existing activities with ones specially designed for this event and adds the classic "Survivor" elements of immunity challenges, bonus events, tribal councils, etc. It's up to you to decide which teams get voted off the island first! |
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| "The Amazing Race" | ||
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| Similar in many ways to the popular TV show this game combines the thrill of taking part in fun and challenging events, such as those outlined above, with the excitement of racing against other teams over an unknown course. This event is an exciting way to spend 1/2 day with your group. |
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The following activities are available to incorporate into your unique team building program. However, we would like for you to always keep in mind that customized company experiences are one of Home On The Range Adventure Tours specialties, so please, if you do not see exactly what you want, give us a call and we’ll work with you to make it happen.
| Animal Puzzler | Voyageur Canoe |
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| In front of you, are approximately 70 - 3 feet x 3 feet puzzle pieces. Each puzzle piece is part of an animal that is native to the Rockies. There are 7 different animals that can be constructed. Your team's task is to successfully complete one puzzle in the shortest time, and correctly identify the animal. | Imagine your voyageur canoe just went through some unexpected rapids and your crew has been thrown overboard. Now you need to get everyone back on board without capsizing the canoe. Once each crewmember is safely on board you congratulate yourselves by singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"! |
| Stranded! | Summit Flags |
| A storm has left your climbing party stranded on a narrow ledge. A path of stepping stones large enough for one person can lead you to a cave for shelter. As you leave the ledge you realize that you have left your locked survival boxes behind and the keys are around the necks of the people who left first. Now you need to get the people with keys back to the survival boxes to get the equipment. One wrong step could send you tumbling off the mountain! |
Be the team to pull the last flag off of the mountain "summit" and claim the mountain as your own. Using logic and cunning, your team competes against other teams to remove just the right number of flags from the cairn at the "summit" so that your team is the one to claim the last flag and the honour of being the ruler of the mountain! |
| Cardinal Points | Crazy Compass Points |
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| Using the compass, take a bearing on the four cardinal points (North, South, East, West) and follow it until you reach a target marker. On each target there are letters to record, from which a word can be created. Return to the start with the correct word, as soon as you are finished. | This event will require your team to get from Point A to Point B by using a variety of directional markers cut in 30, 60, 90, 135 and 180 degree angles, and lengths of rope. It is a logistical and planning challenge! The team completing the course in the shortest time is the winner. |
| Amazing Maze | |
| This game is similar to one you may have played as a kid. Remember the small box with the tilting table where you controlled the movement of a marble around a series of obstacles? Well this game is the same except... it's much, much bigger and your team of 4 will each control one corner of this large table. The object of the game is to effectively communicate among your team so that you can move a ball around an obstacle course without losing the ball through one of the pitfalls! |
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| Wildlife Madness | Pitch, Sand, or Putt | Giant Table Hockey |
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| Using non-regulation balls and sticks, participants have to complete a short croquet-style course in either a record time or with a minimum number of hits to the ball. However, the course is littered with wildlife and other natural and unnatural hazards causing you to "play through" a little differently. | A custom pitching green, 12 feet x 20 feet complete with rough, green, cup and pin. You have 4 chances to score points based on playing the "best ball" or on sinking that magical hole in one. Not as easy as it looks - the course has some subtle grades already built in. | This is another game modeled after a typical Canadian kid's game: Table Hockey. In this case though, the game is played on the ground and you are the players. Each player can only move along a set course, just like the table game. This is an exciting way to play hockey that is safe, fun, and can be played by anyone! |
| The Battle for Fort Whoop Up | Fur Trading Through the Rocky Mountains | Calf Roping |
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| Fort Whoop-up's been abandoned by the law and desperate varmints, such as yourselves, are trying to take control of the valuable whisky stored within. Two walls of the "fort" are set in an "open V" formation and your team is trying some target practice against images of historic figures set in the openings of the walls. The weapons you use are unusual to say the least! | It's the last fur trading run of the season and you've reached a point in the journey where you need to portage your canoe and trade goods across terrain to a land locked trading post. Your goal is to start with a boatload of supplies and be the first at each trading post along the way in order to earn the right to trade supplies for furs. At the end of the route it's a flat out race back to the start to earn the title of top trader! | Set in a western style donut tent, cowboys will need to rope up some stray 'doggies' that have escaped from the stock pens. Ropers from each team will be sitting on a "horse" located in one of four different corners of the playing area. Each roper will have a lasso and piggin string. On a signal, they attempt to lasso a moving "doggie". If they are successful, they get off their horse run to the calf and tie three of the calf's legs together. |
| "Huck, muck 'n Chucks" - Chuck Wagon Races" | Junkyard "Hitchin' Post" | "Break Camp, Not Wind" Backpacker's Race |
| And theeeeeyrrrrrrrr off". Harnessing the horsepower of thoroughbreds while balanced precariously on a short wooden seat atop a bouncing miniature chuckwagon, is not a sport for the weak or weary! And each team's "thoroughbreds" will be of the 2-legged kind! | Every cowboy needs a hitchin' post to tie his or her horse to… especially when visiting the saloon. In this case though, there's no post in sight. All you can see is a pile of odds and ends, so what else can you do but build your own. Use the materials on hand, some ingenuity and possibly a lot of duct tape, to build your hitchin' post. | The weather has turned nasty and your group of backpackers has to break camp in a hurry and find a more hospitable location Camp is still set up so it will have to be quickly disassembled, put into backpacks and then taken out and set up in another location. |
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To activate our Team Building module we pass teams of participants around a series of sites where the groups are asked to complete a task. Each task requires the group to work together to complete it within a specific time frame where they will need to draw on mental, physical (nothing difficult or strenuous), logistical, decision making and problem solving skills coupled with an ability to adapt and improvise in order to succeed.
Having completed a site task successfully, the group will be given a reward. The rewards from each site will help them in the final challenge where all the groups get together for a skills race that once again involves full team participation and some friendly competition between the teams.
A hiker has found the remains of an animal and it is up to you and your team to identify who the victim is and who did it! Full of ambiguities from the "witnesses" to the clues, your team must unravel the mystery before the competing teams do! This is a fast paced, fun filled logistical challenge where your team must use their best communication skills, resources and common sense to gather the clues, question the witnesses and piece it all together!
This is a tricky one and top secret! So to get the details on this one you'll have to chat with us. What we can tell you is the details on each of the challenge stands are what we call morphs, that is some detail changes after each group has been through. Sounds simple? Wait till you see what happens!! Each team will really have to pull together and work hard using all their creativity and smarts in order to ensure they are in for the win!
Each task can earn your team "tools" that will be needed in the final race. Construct and raise a tipi, get you and your team across a raging river to retrieve a tool and come back safely, a logic problem to cross a dangerous swamp where you can't touch the ground, another gaping chasm but this time given a unique set of tools to accomplish this (and you may only use these specific tools), construct a pack for carrying more tools, and … The final task: This is where it all comes together, with the pieces of equipment the teams have won at each task; they now have a race to complete the quest for fire.
Trail of the Metis Trapper, is just a small sample of our team building programs outlined below: Each of the tasks; if done successfully will earn your team "hides" or "pelts" that will be necessary for your final race. Be vigilant once you get them, you could potentially lose one of them at the next task!
Rescue your canoe, and then get your equipment & supplies across a gaping chasm. Care must be taken here, red herrings abound everywhere! This involves using an improvised winch system (learned on day 1) to retrieve the canoe which is full of equipment that is necessary to get the team and all equipment across a gaping chasm. The chasm is not easy to cross, since the equipment and supplies used must be put together in a specific way in order to fit across the gap; so logic and full team work is necessary.
Get your team stealthily through the forest without setting off the booby traps. Watch out for the spider web!!! Teams move through a strip of the forest laced with trip wires that (well we can't tell you now can we? Rest assured though, it is a game of cunning an fun!), there is also a "spider web" to get through in order to retrieve the "hides."
Get your team across the river, check your traps then get back using the equipment you've been given. Careful it's not as easy as it sounds! A similar challenge to Task 1, in which the teams have limited equipment to cross a notional river, they then need to find the trap to check what animal is in it and retrieve the pelt, then get back to the start. There is some other equipment that may or may not needed which the group must decide upon quickly and take what is needed, but there are consequences!
Rescue a lost pack from the mineshaft and get back safely! This requires some ingenious thinking; the teams must work out how to get across a series of fences that are rather high - no going under or around, and no touching them (mock electric fence), this is done to retrieve a lost pack which has the pelts in them. This is a logic problem that requires some physical effort.
You've worked very hard to earn your pelts, and you are on your way to the trading post to trade your ware; but now you are faced with killer bears. You must defend your hard work from those killer bears that smell your ware. This is a task that requires observation skills and physical dexterity. The teams must use primitive weapons to defend the cache, but first the team must find the hidden weapons (not so easy) using observation techniques.
You work for the Hudson's Bay Company, and have learned that two trappers from the North West Company have run into trouble and dropped their firs. As expert trackers you must use your skills (learned on day 1) to track these trappers to find their dropped firs so you can keep them. This task means you must also take care to leave no human tracks for them to follow you!!
This is where it all comes together, with your pelts you have to purchase the equipment needed for the final race (careful, tricks abound here!), those teams who don't have quite enough pelts, will be given the opportunity to use their observation skills to find the necessary equipment, but will be given a time penalty. This is a race where all teams compete against each other to determine who the ultimate trapping team is!! The tasks for the competition will challenge you in a whole new way!
Four Engineers and their truck went missing. They were later found on the side of the highway with an engine that had broken down. All four were found in the truck dead from hypothermia. They had cigarette lighters and 40 gallon drums of diesel on the back of the truck and they were surrounded by bush! Perhaps some basic knowledge would have saved their lives … This can happen to anyone!
The Oil and Gas companies that travel around the world and in particular the Northern parts of Canada, have the challenge of traversing wild terrain and extreme temperatures. These factors can make a working situation become hazardous, and having the skills to counteract the forces of nature can change the likelihood of a negative situation into a positive one. We are proud to offer a program focused on these skills:
This is oriented around everyday bush craft skills. The skills covered are:
Fires for cooking, warmth etc.
Please note, these programs are designed to be instructional, so for those who are looking for concrete skills sessions, the above itinerary is quite suitable. However, the above skills can also be implemented into a team building day to make for a fun and informative day out.
We are able to develop new programs to suit clients, so if there is a specific requirement the client has, it is likely that we can accommodate!
Don't see what you want? Tell us what you need and we'll help you create it! Our wealth of experience and your creativity can combine to produce the ultimate experience for your team, in the exact way you want it!
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our knowledgeable staff today to discuss making your western experience
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For the programs listed below you don’t need to be an athlete, as long as you can walk or garden you can participate in these activities.
For our Rafting and Pegging program we start the day with a series of FUN ground based activities that are interactive and encourage people to think outside the box and they don’t even know it from our Simply Serious Fun Program (more details below). After your magnificent pizza lunch, we will prepare you for our rafting/pegging program. The objective of this activity is to set out and collect pegs at designated places along the river. A map is provided clearly marking the places along the river. Each raft team is assigned a task for each designated place. The first raft must set out a peg, the next raft places a peg beside the first one, this layout of pegs continues until the last raft picks up the pegs and distributes them among the rafts before placing them at the next location. The tasks of ‘set out’ and ‘pick up’ rotate among the rafts. There are ten locations along the river, five on each bank. And so this program continues with demerit points, bonus points and so on. This is all done under the supervision of our professional guides.
Price includes: facilitated ground based programs, rafting, fabulous freshly made on site individual pizza lunch with gourmet salads, dessert and beverage, facilitators, guides, all equipment required, set up, maps, complimentary beverage and snack at the end of program.
For this program we illustrate key personal and group/team skills required working in a group and/or as a team and focusing on fun and awareness of how people interact in the workplace. The group or groups would be participating in activities such as: (please note the below listed activities are examples, we like to design specific activities based on the group’s dynamics) These activities can be done while we are rafting and we can pull off on the banks and facilitate them for a half day program.
Please note the activities listed are just an example, we use a vast number of activities that are appropriate for the group and what you want to accomplish from your day together.
The full day program would run similar to the rafting/pegging program (above) … the group will do the ground based activities in the morning, then have lunch and then raft in the afternoon.
Price includes: activities, rafting, facilitators, guides, all equipment required, set up, complimentary beverage and snack at the end of program.Contact
our knowledgeable staff today to discuss making your western experience
holiday a reality.
Remember
to ask the Home On The Range Adventure Tour staff to help
you design and build the perfect program for you. In the past we've developed
programs as varied as overnight road rally events, western themed and sports
themed game events, orienteering courses, in fact, all of the programs listed
above were at one time unique events in their own right.
You can also combine a team building event with a keynote presentation to build additional employee value into your event. Or you can include guided hikes, walks, snowshoe trips, slide presentations, and sightseeing tours, to create a complete Rocky Mountain package.
Our competent, knowledgeable, and experienced guides and facilitators are the foundation of our programs. They come from many different backgrounds, but choose to make the mountains their home because of their love of nature and the outdoors. They share a passion for the wilderness, wildlife and history of the region and they are eager to share that experience and knowledge with you!
Your custom designed program can be delivered at any time of the year.
Our network of Guides/Facilitators is available to offer programs in a broad
range of locations. No matter the location, we are committed to designing
and delivering a program that combines the best of people, place and product.
As all packages are customized to meet the specific request and needs of the client. Prices will vary depending on the number of individuals participating in an event, on the length of the event, and on the particular team building event selected. Ask us for an exact price based on your group and your specific choice of activities.
Can be arranged to all locations.
Can be arranged at local hotels, lodges and resorts.
Meals can be incorporated into the packages, if requested.
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