Images: Outdoor Activity Events in the Lake District

Raft building tends to be another very popular activity in the Lake District, especially during team bonding events. This is a little peculiar as the activity almost inevitably ends in a light-hearted water-battle.

We divide your group into small sub-teams, give each a pile of barrels and poles and, with a little technical input on knots and lashings, you build yourselves a raft.

Once built, each team lines up their craft for a speed and manoeuvrability race. This one works quite well and may well be heading towards a bottle of pink bubbly!

Isn't the scenery stunning!

For those of you that aspire to reach higher places we provide guided rock climbing, scrambling or hillwalking on the Lake Districts classic routes.

Allow a full day for hillwalks and scrambles, whereas climbing depends on your aspirations, from short single pitch valley routes taking less than half a day to longer multi-pitch routes which end at sunset.

Caving is one of those activites that inspires and awes most people the first time they go underground. Many people believe the passages to be tight crawls but take a look at this; most passages that we use are large enough to walk through with the occasional squeeze for that additional challenge.

Squeezes have memorable names such as "The Letterbox", and the "Cheesepress". For some they are emotional challenges, for others they are more physical - it depends on how much you like your breakfast!

Caving and potholing are generic terms for an underground trip though a pot is usually a more vertical cave requiring advanced rigging of ropes and "single rope techniques" to climb back out.

01539 730890	Images: Outdoor Activity Events in the Lake District
01539 730890	Abseiling, canoeing, raft building, ghyll scrambling, gorge walking, archery, rock climbing, scrambling, orienteering caving
Key Adventures designs and delivers a wide range of bespoke outdoor activity events in the Lake District. Each event is made up of a variety of highly enjoyable and memorable activities and challenges. These images show just a small sample of our services. Please call us to discuss your requirements in more detail. Key Adventures is licensed by the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority and is insured with Jardine Lloyd Thompson. All instructors and technicians are professionally qualified and highly experienced. Our Event Coordinators are Accredited Practitioners of the Institute for Outdoor Learning. Our policies and documents can be viewed at www.keyadventures.co.uk/files/policies.htm
Abseiling is one of our most popular activities offering the thrill of the descent, plus support and encouragement from your team. Abseiling is an inclusive activity, i.e. all participants can be fully engaged regardless of their physical capabilities. Rather than taking you abseiling, we prefer to increase your involvement by belaying your peers. We train you to abseil and to manage the safety rope for your friends and colleagues so in effect you take yourselves abseiling under our watchful supervision. You don't necessarily have to keep the blindfold on but I don't think anyone told this abseiler! There's always a joker....
	Canoeing is a superb way to navigate between activities in the Lake District, We use open, or Canadian canoes as they're very stable, easy to paddle 2-up, and carry loads of kit so we don't have to rough it too much if we're lunching on a remote beach or island. The craft in this image is a canoe-raft. We pole two canoes together to form a Catamaran-type craft which is virtually impossible to turn over, very manoeuvrable and an excellent vehicle for paddling in teams especially in windy-weather .
Raft building tends to be another very popular activity in the Lake District, especially during team bonding events. This is a little peculiar as the activity almost inevitably ends in a light-hearted water-battle. We divide your group into small sub-teams, give each a pile of barrels and poles and, with a little technical input on knots and lashings, you build yourselves a raft. Once built, each team lines up their craft for a speed and manoeuvrability race. This one works quite well and may well be heading towards a bottle of pink bubbly! Isn't the scenery stunning!
	One of our most popular outdoor challenges is a ghyll scramble (gorge walk), requiring hand-to-hand support, a playful approach and good teamwork as you scramble amongst huge boulder, climbing waterfalls and wading through pools. This is our most popular inclusive activity - anyone can do it!
Another favourite is target archery. Typically we coach for 30 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of practice then run an inter-team or interpersonal competition. We use sighted composite take-down bows paired with carbon arrows allowing participants to feel real achievement as their accuracy and score improves.
	For those of you that aspire to reach higher places we provide guided rock climbing, scrambling or hillwalking on the Lake Districts classic routes. Allow a full day for hillwalks and scrambles, whereas climbing depends on your aspirations, from short single pitch valley routes taking less than half a day to longer multi-pitch routes which end at sunset.
Orienteering involves your sub-team in competition with others, navigating to locate orienteering markers with the help of a map and compass. Each marker scores according to it's distance from the start and difficulty of location. We offer Strategy Orienteering Events in which the whole team must pit themselves against their own "business" target, using four collection phases in which to visit markers. Any missed markers incur huge penalties, so picking the most appropriate strategy is your key to success: Know your true potential; are you playing safe or risking all?!
	Caving is one of those activites that inspires and awes most people the first time they go underground. Many people believe the passages to be tight crawls but take a look at this; most passages that we use are large enough to walk through with the occasional squeeze for that additional challenge. Squeezes have memorable names such as "The Letterbox", and the "Cheesepress". For some they are emotional challenges, for others they are more physical - it depends on how much you like your breakfast! Caving and potholing are generic terms for an underground trip though a pot is usually a more vertical cave requiring advanced rigging of ropes and "single rope techniques" to climb back out.

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