Basler Team Challenge & Aerial Adventure Course

The Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course is a state of the art low and high ropes outdoor experience. The course offers a full range of adventurous activities including: ground-level team building initiatives; two ziplines; a giant swing; quick descent; and a three-level aerial challenge tower with elements ranging from easy to difficult and between 15 – 45 feet in the air.

Events at the Challenge Course - Fall 2023

To register for any trips please do so through the Campus Recreation Portal or visit the Outdoor Adventure Center during regular hours.

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Giant Swings and Giant Smoothies

Date: August 30, 2023 - Wednesday
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 4:30pm – 7:30pm
No Registration
Cost: FREE
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    You haven’t experienced true swinging until you’ve done it from 40 feet up! Join Outdoor Adventure at the Basler Challenge Course for an afternoon of giant smoothies and riding the Giant Swing. Led by trained OA staff, bring your roommates and friends for a giant adventure!

     

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1 - Easy Active

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Welcome Week Campout

Date: September 1-2, 2023 – Friday-Saturday
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:00pm – 10:00am
Registration Opens: Monday, Aug. 28
Registration Closes: Friday, Sept. 1 (4:00pm)
Cost: FREE
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    Finish your Welcome Week with a Camp Out presented by Outdoor Adventure! No experience needed to enjoy the stars and joy of sleeping outside at the Challenge Course. Outdoor Adventure will provide camping gear including tents, sleeping bags and pads, and headlamps as well as s’mores on Friday night and breakfast on Saturday morning. All are welcome but only those registered will be provided equipment and guaranteed breakfast!

     

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1 - Easy Active

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Zip N' Smores

Date: October 5, 2023 – Thursday
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Registration Opens: Thursday, Sept. 21
Registration Closes: Thursday, Oct. 5 (5:00pm)
Cost: FREE   
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    Experience flight with Outdoor Adventure and zip through the Fall Semester! Join us at the Basler Challenge Course for an evening of zipline races and acrobatics. Then enjoy the evening with a bonfire and S’mores. Early registration is preferred but walk-ins are welcome! Feel free to join simply for the fire and sweet treats!

     

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1 - Easy Active

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Halloween Howl

Date: October 31, 2023 – Tuesday
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Registration Opens: Tuesday, Oct. 17
Registration Closes: Tuesday, Oct. 31 (5:00pm)
Cost: FREE
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    Howl at the moon on All Hallows Eve with Outdoor Adventure! Scream down the Zip Line, get ghooly on the Aerial Course, and be spooked on the Quick Flight! The course will be lit up and the fire pit will be roaring with S’mores! Bring all your friends and enjoy this iconic evening at the course! 

     

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1-3 – Easy Active – Vigorous
  • Reservations
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    Reservations

    Reserved programs are available for all! The Challenge Course (similar to a giant obstacle course in the air!) offers the opportunity for participants to stretch their physical and mental limits and includes 21 unique climbing, zipping, walking, balancing, and swinging challenges as participants move from element to element. The Low Course offers more teambuilding and group focused activities on and close to the ground.
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    Perhaps your group is a newly formed club, medical team, community group, or school class. All can find challenge, teamwork, and ways to explore group dynamics through creative thinking and working together. Outdoor Adventure can tailor programs to suit your goals.
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    Group Types
    • ETSU Groups: Classes, activity groups, departments, sororities and fraternities can all reserve the challenge course and teambuilding services from Outdoor Adventure.
    • Non-Profit and ETSU Sponsored Groups: Local non-profit groups, schools, sports teams, and ETSU sponsored groups can experience the course and teambuilding elements with Outdoor Adventure.
    • Community Groups: Any group outside of ETSU is welcome to reserve the course or teambuilding event with ETSU Outdoor Adventure.
    Click HERE or below to begin your reservation!!

To make a reservation for the Challenge Course or a Teambuilding Event, please fill out the:

Challenge Course and Teambuilding Event Reservation Form

Explore The Course

 

 

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OPEN AERIAL ADVENTURE AND ZIP LINE

CLOSED for the SummerFREE TO STUDENTS/FACULTY/STAFFThe Aerial Adventure Course will be open to students/faculty/staff at ETSU. Come out, bring your friends and experience the fun and personal challenge of over 20 unique elements up in the air! Click here or visit the Campus Rec Portal to sign up!

 

For questions about the Challenge Course please visit the Outdoor Adventure Center during regular hours or email Outdoor Adventure.

 

Locations: The Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course is located on ETSU’s campus at 503 Go Bucs Trail. The Challenge Course Pavilion is located at 505 Go Bucs Trail. Parking is available in lot 22A across from the challenge course pavilion on Go Bucs Trail. 

Challenge Course Info and Documents

Groups must have a minimum of eight (8) participants or pay for a minimum of eight (8) participants.

If there are 6 or more people using a recreation space for an activity, excluding open/informal recreation, this is considered a group that must have an approved reservation to use the space.

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