What is the Rancho La Scherpa Ropes Course Challenge?
The combination of Low and High Ropes Courses enable our guests to participate in both team and individual events.
The Low Ropes Course focuses on collaboration and problem solving. The challenges call upon every member of the team to participate, and they present unending opportunities for self-discovery and team growth.
The low ropes elements are close to the ground so the perceived risk is low,
but still challenging to complete. Participants walk tightropes, negotiate obstacles, climb walls, and pass teammates through a giant web.
The High Ropes Course emphasizes risk-taking, trust, and coaching. The challenges allow participants to expand their comfort zones—sometimes dramatically—and recognize fears that may block personal achievement.
Using harnesses, helmets, cables, ropes and wooden beams strung 20 to 50 feet high among trees or poles, teams explore risk-taking, trust and coaching. Each moment is rich with discoveries, whether you’re climbing, simply encouraging others or on belay.
Participants interact with their teammates in a very different and powerful way. Rancho La Scherpa instructors establish the context for each activity, supervise participant’s safety and help team members recognize valuable insights throughout the events.
The High Ropes Elements are up in the trees . . . the perceived risk is high, but actual risk is low. Our guests conquer personal fears and develop new self confidence as they walk across cable bridges, negotiate giant ladders, traverse a narrow balance beam, ride zip lines, and jump through the air to grab a dangling trapeze in the Leap of Faith.
Our ropes courses are designed by experienced industry experts to maximize the excitement and minimize the risk. A certified technician inspects all of our carabiners, belay devices, harnesses, and helmets each year, along with all components of low and high elements. Additionally, we replace all of our belay ropes each year.
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"On Belay"
One outstanding feature about
Rancho La Scherpa's Ropes Course Challenge is that we teach the high ropes course participants to belay for
each other. Belaying is the process of managing the safety line to protect
the climber. The belayer takes in
the slack as the climber ascends the element, gives slack when the
climber needs it, arrests the fall of the climber in the event of a slip,
and lowers the climber safely to the ground.
A Rancho La Scherpa Ropes Instructor teaches proper belay techniques and safety, and closely supervises the belaying throughout the day.
All belayers must pass the belay test.
Before climbing begins, an instructor checks the participant's harness, carabiner, knot, and belay device, and insures the helmet properly secured.
New for 2010 is "The Edge."
This precarious rock is located at an
elevation of 2400 feet.
Participants are strapped into a
full body safety harness, secured by safety ropes and then lean out over the dropoff which opens into the valley beow
and a panaromic view of the
Pacific Ocean and the California Channel lslands. Leaning out into the unknow
is harder than it sounds. Most groups use the lean over The Edge to symbolize decisions and comittments by participants.
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