Portable Team Challenge - July 28th, 2007

July 28th, 2007

Today we put on another Portable Team Challenge with a group of international students. The kids had been working and traveling together for a couple of weeks already, and this was their recreational team building event. The students showed great enthusiasm, in spite of the heat and sun. A couple of highlights was the successful completion of the "gutterball," and the "magic boots" activities.

In "gutterball," the team had to move a rubber ball down a series of PVC pipes that were lined up like a gutter. The activity took great focus and communication, as well as a good bit of planning before beginning the action.

For "magic boots," the team had to traverse from one side of the "river" to the other side, using only one pair of "one-way" boots. In other words, the boots could only be worn once for each participant, and had to be used to transport 16 people across. Challenging!

Here's a couple of highlight shots to give you an idea of the challenges... Enjoy!

Whiting's Neck and Indian Cave Adventure...

July 7th, 2007

Caving at Whiting's Neck Cave, Martinsburg, WV.

Today we took a family caving at Indian and Whiting's Neck Cave, near Shepherdstown, WV. Great day for caving, the heat outside was 91, but the cool inside the cave was about 55! The two boys and their father had been caving before, but they thought this was the "best cave" they had ever been in...

We started at Indian Cave, then ate lunch and headed up to Whiting's Neck. The boys were 9 and 11 years-old, making them the youngest kids to go into the drop. They did a great job, pushing themselves through the tight squeezes and hauling themselves up the rope. This was Shana's first time into Whiting's Neck Cave, so she had to try everything. She was a trooper, and we snapped a shot of her coming through "Rebirth."

Website down, other new changes

Xtreme Adventures Butler Camp has started, the summer is in full swing, we're all muddy here at GO-Adventures...and we have a new name! We've changed our name to GO-Adventures from GO-Adventure Sports, because the old name had too many syllables and no one could remember it. Also, the new name is....snappier. Let us know what you think! The search engines are having a bit of a harder time finding our site now, so hopefully everything will work out...

In other news, we switched our hosting provider to Yahoo!, and we're still ironing out the kinks. The website was down over the weekend (curses!), but it's back up now. Soon we'll have all the links fixed up, and I'll get the photos back in to our blog. Things might be text-only for a little while. Hang with us!