Mountain Quest
If you’re looking for a great way to see The Boar's Head Resort Property — or a really fun way to get your heart pumping — come give Orienteering a try.
Known as “the thinking man’s running game,” Orienteering is a fast-paced and exciting challenge that tests your map and compass reading skills. Following a brief instruction period on either map and compass or GPS principles, teammates must work together to collaboratively navigate a preset course through the woods. Once you’ve reached a checkpoint marked on a detailed map, you punch your card with a distinct punch, available only at that checkpoint.
In order to succeed, teams must rely on the skills and knowledge of their teammates. Upon completion of the course, the facilitator has an opportunity to explore with the group, their leadership styles, the way they reacted to ambiguity, and their overall group decision making process.
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- Moderate
- 4 Hours
- 5-150
Firequest
Sparking energy through team synergy! Everyone knows the company with the greatest fire or passion is often the most successful. What is preventing your teams’ success? A common road block to success is inter-departmental competition. In today’s competitive business market, teams often forget the synergy that comes from collaboration and tend to automatically compete with their key associates. Fun, exhilarating and mentally demanding, FireQuest is designed to spotlight the importance of collaboration and demonstrate the natural tendency of most teams to unnecessarily compete. After an introduction to the program concepts, teams are introduced to many new challenges, all designed to promote inter-team collaboration. As teams learn the skills necessary to use a GPS unit, and then locate specific locations around the resort property, they experience the importance of utilizing the natural skills of each team member.
During FireQuest, team members must seek out a variety of checkpoints that are assigned different values determined by ease of access, distance and difficulty, while racing against the clock. Planning and communication are vital for success. While completing the GPS course, each team collects the tools necessary to build a small fire using flint and steel. In order to successfully start the fire, a team must utilize every piece retrieved. Much like the workplace team, if one element is under used or missing, success can be near impossible to achieve. After an extensive debrief, teams will understand the natural tendency to compete automatically, even when competition is unnecessary. As a reminder of the lessons learned, each team member takes home a custom designed fire kit to help reinforce the lessons learned.
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- Moderate
- 2.5 Hours
- 5-200
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race includes multi-sensory puzzlers, physical challenges, problem solving tasks, building challenges and kinetic game playing. By using the template of CBS’s The Amazing Race in conjunction with team dynamic training, the adventure has all the excitement of the TV show along with strong team growth components.
The experience begins with a fun brain tweaker that helps spread the teams departure times by a few minutes. Once the race starts, each team can use taxis, rental cars, scooters or whatever other mode of transportation they choose, to race around historic Charlottesville. For a shorter game, teams can be confined to The Boar's Head Resort property. One caveat: they must always stay together as a team. Teams navigate their way to check points utilizing their combined wits, acquired maps, clues and or their ability to obtain accurate directions.
After they complete the first checkpoint challenge or Detour, they move on to the next challenge. This process continues as they race across the city trying to become the first team to cross the finish line. At each checkpoint, the teams will need to complete a challenge or solve a creative problem. These include a variety of Roadblock or Detour style challenges.
CUSTOMIZATION
The challenges and clues are customized to reflect your unique location as well as emphasize the unique aspects of your corporate culture. You can select from a huge and exciting assortment of challenges that require a variety of personal and team skills. You may choose based on your company goals for this team builder or let us select for you. Either way, the challenge will be themed to the specific locale. Start wherever you wish, go wherever you like, and finish wherever you choose. Did we mention that we can design an Amazing Race in any city you choose? It is truly a versatile platform for a team dynamics program; completely adaptable to your needs, group size and location!
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- Easy-Difficult
- 2-6 Hours
- 10-200
Bridging the Gap
Increase your communication with this hands on activity!
Bridging the gap between a team and its success has never been more fun. In this challenging exercise, teams will actually build large-scale bridges using real lumber and supplies. The group is broken into teams and given the task to build a bridge meeting certain specifications and using only the materials given. The twist? Each team only builds half of the bridge. Another team builds the other half. For this to work communication is key.
Teams are separated and only allowed short communication windows where they must plan and design their two halves to meet perfectly in the middle. At the end the team’s complete bridge will span a minimum of an 8-foot gap and stand at least 3 feet tall.
With roadblocks and team challenges along the way, this is a fun, exhilarating and mentally demanding activity that is sure to get your group communicating and building together!
Give us a call at 434.214.4560 or shoot us an email for pricing and availability! - Easy
- 2 hours
- 5-150
Out of The Park
High power water rockets, secret clues, team building, and an afternoon of fun. This exciting afternoon starts with a quest to decode the secrets of The Boar's Head Resort. With our free app, your team will have to decipher the clues you will see many unique locations.
As you visit each location you will collect tokens which can be exchanged for the equipment necessary to build a high powered water rocket. Once you have all of your equipment, you must design the highest flying rocket! Pick your strongest team member to pressurize the rocket to the ideal pressure. Watch in amazement as the rockets you have constructed reach the 200 ft mark. This activity is one you will remember.
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- Easy
- 2.5 Hours
- 10-200
Caving Experience–Corporate
Explore the hidden depths of our local cave! Enjoy the natural wonders of this beautiful, historic landmark. Marvel at the grandeur of the undeveloped sections of the cave.
Be prepared to get dirty with this tour as we will be down low, crawling through small passageways lit only by your headlamp. Your group will enjoy this private caving excursion deep into one of this historic cavern.
Forget the well traveled paths most guests choose to travel. You and your group will be off the beaten path and deep in the caverns below the Albermarle Valley. This is a truly unforgettable experience.
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- Moderate
- 4 Hours
- 10-30
Happy Hour Archery and Sporting Arrows
Start your evening activity by experiencing the feel of traditional archery with our skilled instructors. With our beautiful, portable targets, we are able to provide this activity in most locations. You can come and go as you please! Grab some appetizers, watch your coworkers and friends hit a bullseye, then grab a bow and try it yourself!
Looking for something new and different? Give Sporting Arrows a try. Sporting Arrows is a new archery game to supplement the static archery target shooting that has been the norm for many years. Based upon the clay pigeon sport of Sporting Clays, Sporting Arrows uses the same principal of Sporting Clays -- Shoot a moving target.
Arrows is a new game appealing to the experienced archer, the newcomer to the sport and participants of all ages.
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- Easy
- 1.5 Hours
- 5-250