High Ropes Course

Swaying in the lodgepole pine trees of the Leadville Mountain Center, our High Ropes Course offers individual challenges to unlock the potential in each group member. The Ropes Course has an array of elements and many opportunities to return to the ground, allowing students to choose the right amount of challenge for them. Traveling through the tree 40 feet above the ground while wearing harnesses and safety gear, students rely on their crewmates for support as they navigate exciting obstacles like swinging bridges and rope nets. Instructors and group members are always close by to encourage and help one another and to ensure safe transfers from one element to the next.

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Photo: Anthony Capristo |📍Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) lands

Ground Initiatives

To develop skills in problem-solving and teamwork, your Instructors will progress your group through a series of fun and physically engaging outdoor activities. ​Students will be actively engaging with the physical environment and each other to achieve goals. You’ll discuss how different styles of leadership and communication lead to different outcomes. Instructors will match appropriate initiatives to your group’s needs. ​Group reflection will focus on core course components like belonging, courage, and transferring skills and lessons learned to life back home. You group will then take your newfound skills and insight to the low ropes course.​

Low Ropes

Together the group will navigate obstacles like logs, rope swings, and platforms just a few feet above the ground to practice leadership and problem-solving. ​Students gain confidence as they explore different leadership styles and learn the importance of listening and supporting one another. ​Reflection after each activity helps students connect their experiences to real-world scenarios, facilitating educational transference to the classroom and beyond.​ The Low Ropes course deepens the group’s ability to communicate and work cohesively.

Photo: Leslie Spinelli |📍Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) lands

Leadville Mountain Center, Colorado

Colorado Outward Bound’s 600-acre property at the base of Mount Massive. Our base camp encompasses mountain streams, wild plants, fields and forests. Lake Fork Creek (that runs into the headwaters of the Arkansas River) runs near the east of our property and the Colorado Trail borders us to the west. If the timing is right, colorful wildflowers will brighten the trails through the LMC. You might share camp with elk, deer, chipmunks and myriad other wildlife. This region is within the ancestral lands of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) nation.

 📍Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) lands

Rocky Mountains, CO

The Colorado Rockies is home to the most high peaks in the lower 48 states, with hundreds of iconic mountains standing over 13,000 and 14,000 feet tall. The region is characterized by dense pine forests and rocky alpine ecosystems. Students will enjoy clear blue glacial lakes, fields of wildflowers, waterfalls, and striking rock formations. If they are observant, students may spot wildlife like elk, mountain goats, moose, marmots, pikas and eagles. These regions are within the ancestral lands of of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Cheyenne, Arapaho, Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux), Eastern Shoshone, Jicarilla Apache, and Pueblos nations.

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