K-state challenge course
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Facilities
The K-State Challenge Course is officially open! The course has three components: a grassy field for group initiatives, low elements, and high elements. Please feel free to view layout map of the challenge course.
Field area
Your challenge course experience will begin with initiatives on our field. Initiatives are designed to warm up your group and to prepare you for the experience.
Low elements
Low elements involve ropes, cables, platforms, logs, and other pieces of equipment employed on the ground or just off the ground. The activities can be geared toward a group’s particular goals and reinforce specific learning aspects. These elements help participants to be creative in solving problems and help participants explore how to later apply the same skills to everyday situations. The primary safety mechanism used in low elements is group spotting.
Listing of Low elements:
- Whale Watch with wheel chair ramp
- Blind Maze
- TP Shuffle
- Wild Woosey
- Verticial/ horizontal Spider Web
- Log Jam
- Mountain Games
- Zig Zag
- Mohawk Walk
- Boson Swings
- 8ft. Beam
High elements
High elements involve a system of ropes, cables, platforms, logs, and pulleys 10 to 40 feet off the ground on poles. Personal assumptions and limitations are tested through perceived risk and overcoming limiting thoughts. Safety mechanisms for these elements include the use of belay ropes (safety-rope attachment systems), harnesses, and helmets.
Listing of high elements:
- Flying Squirrel
- Giant Swing
- Levitation Platform
- Multivine
- Multiple Event Element
- Power Poll with buoy ball