Team Building

What We Offer

Summit Ropes has pioneered a new approach to team building that is perfect for today's organization.  We have created six unique activities and perfected their delivery to limit the cost and time required for preparation.  Each activity is then customized by the facilitator for each organizations needs.  We offer three activities on the ropes course and three activities on the ground.  Finally, by being indoors and conveniently located next to Dulles Airport your program is guaranteed to not be affected by weather.

Ropes Course Team Building 

Summit Ropes brings the outdoors inside, adding a special twist to traditional team building. Team building takes place on our 120-element course, providing participants a chance to perform challenging activities and support each other in a unique environment. Professional facilitators lead activities designed to engage teams and demand that they work together, under fear induced stress, to solve problems.

Ranger Warrior Challenge

Synergy   |   Teamwork   |   Camaraderie

Great For: Teams blaze their way through the toughest obstacles and must solve challenges to enable every team member to complete the mission.

Exercise:  Teams are led through some of the most difficult obstacles and every team member must successfully complete each obstacle.

Goal: Promotes empathy and awareness.  Requires the use of ingenuity and planning skills.

The Trifecta

Contend   |   Compete   |   Conquer

Great For:  Sales teams.

Exercise:  Teams compete in three timed events that incorporate both on and off course activities.

Goal: Instills the foundation of good teamwork by inspiring cooperation and creating social bonds.

Ground Team Building

Many businesses want a better understanding of the individuals that make up their team. These on-the-ground activities are specifically designed to meet the goals and objectives of your team. Our professional facilitators will assist team members in rekindling their appreciation for each other and in connecting to shared passion in the workplace.

Blind Tent Build

Organizational Empathy

Great For:  Reconnecting teams or bringing together new teams.

Exercise:  Assuming alternate roles, the team must construct a tent, while blindfolded under the pressure of being timed.

Goal:  Facilitate organizational empathy, communication, problem solving & team focus on a common goal.

Toxic Waste Removal

Innovative Time Management

Great For:  Teams that work in a high stress environment that rely on each other to be productive.

Exercise:  Use creative engineering to remove "toxic waste" from an area, however, no team member is allowed inside the toxic waste perimeter.

Goal:  Promotes communication, creativity, innovation & time management under stress

Cave Rescue

Ethical Decision Making

Great For:  Federal government and first responders.

Exercise:  By utilizing ethical criteria to decide which team members will survive.  Teammates are trapped in a flooding cave and you must decide the order in which they will be rescued.

Goal:  Ethical decision making while instilling collaboration & negotiation practices.