Beyond Basics: Advanced Challenge Course Skills
| Skill Level: Advanced Level | |
| Tuition: $545 | Course Length: 5 days (40 hrs) |
| Food: $215 | Graduate Credit: 3 (additional fee) |
| Lodging: $260 (Single: $380) | CEU: Available (additional fee) |
Course Description:
Beyond Basics is an advanced challenge course operations workshop.
It is designed to help practitioners reinforce and improve the requisite technical needed to effectively operate a low and high challenge course program. Emphasis will be on developing a deeper understanding of challenge course systems and cultivating a critical eye for risk management.
This workshop prepares challenge course practitioners for Level II Certification.
What you'll learn:
- Review of basic skills: knot tying, proper use and maintenance of equipment, belay skills
- Self belay techniques for challenge course access, set up and gear retrieval
- Risk management
- Emergency action plans
- Accident prevention and basic rescue procedures
- Specialty element operations such as Flying Squirrel, Pamper Pole/Plank, Zip Line, Rappel, Giant Swing.
