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Team Building:
Real life challenges transfer to our low ropes team development course activities, building trust, improving group dynamics and communication, and stimulating personal growth. Navigating our course, groups will be presented with challenges ranging from simple to complex. Experienced field staff facilitate group debriefs, highlighting relevant life lessons. Each group will also experience an individual high ropes adventure on our 300' long zip-line.
Additional Information:
Lodging & Accommodations:
Adventure Links has 4 bunkhouse cabins (Pine, Poplar, Hickory, and Oak) available for group overnights. Each cabin has two rooms with 12 beds in each room. A bath-house is centrally located for all the cabins, and features modern plumbing.
Environmental Education:
Watershed Studies
Watershed Studies is designed to help students learn that water systems are part of larger ecological cycle, define what a watershed is and how everything in a watershed affects water quality, Students engage in the scientific process of stream monitoring, to assess environmental quality of a body of water based on diversity of aquatic organisms.
Outdoor Living Skills
The basic needs of survival can be characterized by the “Rule of Threes”, outlining requirements for shelter, food and water. Learn basic to advanced skills to support outdoor living and survival, including bow drill fires, shelter constructions, tracking, plant identification, cordage and more. Combine survival skills with orienteering for an all-encompassing lesson in outdoor living.
Ecology & Town Hall
Ecology studies focuses students to the idea that explanations of nature are developed and tested by observation, experimentation, models, evidence, and systematic processes. Students will explore the flora and fauna of the Northern Virginia area, specifically white tail deer populations, specific trees in our area, and the effects both have on each other. Following the ecology lessons students will participate in a town hall discussion. The town hall allows students to engage in an active discussion about what actions to take to combat local issues dealing with forest management and vote on a solution.
Adventure Links in cooperation with NOVA PARKS.
Our site in Northern Virginia is located on 425-acres at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park in Clifton, VA. Hemlock Overlook is situated just minutes from Washington, DC, and is managed by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. Adventure Links has partnered with NOVA Parks and is the exclusive provider of team building at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park.