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Low-Ropes Course

 Built in the spring of 2005, our new low-ropes teams and confidence course can accommodate up to 60 students simultaneously. Massive improvements in autumn 2006 made the course run more smoothly and accounted for additional safety precautions. The course’s minimal height allows participants to safely gain the confidence that comes from overcoming challenges. Furthermore, the course’s octagonal format requires planning on the team and whole-group level. The lengthy and varied course provides a challenge for elementary through university-age students, allowing for a full morning or afternoon activity. Still, for those who finish early, the course can be easily supplemented with a visit to the surrounding teams course .
Students from the Mead School were the first to try this new element.

Participants are often thrown off by the structural simplicity of this element, not as easy as it looks.
Nuring students from SUNY Plattsburgh exhibit true cohesion to get the rope.
Freshmen from Greens Farms Academy round the corner from traverse wall to "Elivis Walk."

The climbing wall helps students confidently learn traversing techniques only a few feet off the ground.
A sneaky middle-school student manages to snag the rope all by herself.

Each team must concoct a plan to retrieve the cable-walk support rope hanging in the middle of the gap between platforms.
Students from GFA enjoyed the lower height and closer together tires.

Figuring out how to work teamwork into the tires is particularly challenging because it can be done alone.
SUNY Plattsburgh nurses-in-training speed across the "broken bridge."

On the suspension bridge, stabalizing side-to-side swing takes precedence over back-and-forth balance.
Two freshmen from GFA use ingenuity and teamwork to conquer the "Wobbly Woozy."

When on the divergent cables, students quickly discover that they must work together to get to the other side.
This nursing student seems pretty happy despite that she's now done with the course.

Students begin or end the course by crawling through the dark “bear den.”