High Ropes Adventure Course
Description
Step outside your comfort zone and challenge yourself with the High Ropes Adventure Course at the Silver Bay YMCA! This exhilarating, elevated course features a series of thrilling obstacles designed to push your limits, build confidence, and enhance teamwork. From climbing vertical elements to balancing tightropes, each section offers a unique test of strength, coordination, and mental focus.

Benefits:

• Builds Confidence through personal achievement
• Enhances Teamwork with collaborative obstacles
• Improves Physical Fitness with full-body challenges
• Sharpen Mental Focus and decision-making skills
• Fun and Adventurous experience for all ages

Located in the Counsel Ring Area in the beautiful surroundings of the Silver Bay YMCA, the High Ropes Adventure Course provides an unforgettable outdoor experience that combines physical challenge, personal growth, and fun. Whether you're an individual seeking personal development or a group looking to bond, the course promises a rewarding and memorable adventure. Come see how high you can go!

Along with our Low Ropes Course, the High Ropes Course is perfect for individuals, teams, and groups, this course offers a unique opportunity for development and adventure. It’s ideal for schools seeking alternative programs and teams looking to strengthen their collaboration.

Customizable, accessible and great for private, group, and conference rentals!

High Elements Include:

Burma Bridge:
The Burma Bridge stands out as the easiest high element physically and mentally. It is constructed with a foot cable and a cable for each hand.

The Vertical Play Pen:
The Vertical Play Pen consists of a variety of challenges on the upwards climb. The challenge is for the partners to climb upwards over the obstacles to end sitting in the horizontal tire. The activity can be attempted by single participants.

The Dangle Duo:
The Dangle Duo consists of a vertically oriented timber ladder suspended from an overhead cable. The challenge for the single participant or pair is to climb the ladder using only the support of the logs and/or the other participant. Use of the side cables for climbing is discouraged.

Holy Cow Swing:
An exhilarating swing through the air that provides an “at height” experience for participants regardless of climbing ability.

Leadership Leap:
A leap to a suspended trapeze or target from a platform.

Voyager Crossing:
A series of disks hung from a single rope high in the trees. Each disk has four ropes that hang from bottom of the disk to the ground. These ropes are used to steady the disks for the climber.


Low Elements Include:

Mohawk Walk:
A Mohawk Walk is comprised of a series of low cable challenges strung between trees or poles that sequentially present a complex task for participants.

Full House:
Five lengths of utility pole or log form a simple horizontal house shape. (2 for the peaked roof, 2 for the sides and 1 for the base). Each length is raised and supported in brackets a few inches off the ground.

Triangle Tension Traverse:
This element is formed by a triangle of tightly strung cables approximately 2 to 2 1/2 feet above the ground. Three lengths of multi-line rope are attached to each of the three trees. These lines provide some support as participants attempt to walk along the cable.

A-Frame:
This is a unique initiative that requires the group to move a wooden A-frame from point A to point B with one participant standing in the A-frame. The A-frame constructed of 2 x 4 lumber is about 10’ high and has 4 ropes attached to various points of the apparatus.

Whale Watch:
The Whale Watch is generally built as an approximately 7’x14’ wooden platform balanced on a 6” x 6” fulcrum beam.


Wild Woosey:
Two tautly strung cables diverging from approximately the same point, connect with two distant anchors that are located about 14 feet apart. This creates a “V”. Cables are 1 to 2 feet above the ground to allow space for spotters as participants lean in during attempted traverse of this element.

Spider’s Web:
A prefabricated web strung between two trees, 10-14 feet apart, is comprised of approximately 15 to 17 open web sections. The web is constructed of multi-line rope and bungee cord.

Multi-vine Traverse:
A foot cable with a series of Multi-line ropes suspended from an overhead cable. Each Multi-line rope is purpose-fully positioned just beyond reach.

Nitro Crossing:
A swing rope with an attached optional prusik loop is suspended from a hanging cable. As this is an element that challenges a group to swing from Point A to Point B, boundary markers can be positioned horizontally at the beginning and end of the problem, usually about a foot off the ground.

The Maze:
The Maze is just that, a maze composed of a series of rope hand lines attached to trees. These lines form an intricate network from which there is only one exit. A group’s goal is to find their way out of the Maze. Generally, groups are led in blindfold fashion to the Maze area to preclude any visual scouting of the problem.

KyooB:
It’s a square, it’s a web, it’s KYooB! A spin on the classic Spider’s Web activity is designed with purpose and portability. We created a sturdy, group-friendly low element that can be assembled quickly and used in all settings from classrooms to camp forests.

Telephone Pole Shuffle:
A utility pole imbedded in the ground horizontally. Used by standing on and shuffling positions without touching the ground.
Location:
Silver Bay YMCA
Dates:
5/1/2025 9:00 AM - 11/1/2025 5:00 PM
Time:
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Ages:
Ages 6 and up
Cost:
$15.00
Availability:
Registration opens on 6/21/2025 at 12:00 AM