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ON THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT

 

HIKING ADVENTURES

Few forms of exercise provide greater enjoyment, more benefits or allow a more intimate means to explore old cultures and new environments than walking or hiking. 

 

You will never forget this once-in-a-lifetime experience of hiking right on the San Andreas Fault.  Whether you want a casual interpretive nature walk, a challenging hike, or competitive event, Desert Adventures offers exciting hiking for all abilities on our 1000-acre private desert preserve, with miles and miles of excellent, safe hiking trails.  Every hike is lead by an entertaining Desert Adventures Naturalist Guide, who will narrate every step of the way.

 

 

MOUNTAIN & E-BIKE ADVENTURES

Add an element of excitement by exploring the San Andreas Fault on bicycle.  The numerous hard packed dirt roads offer the perfect location for safe, undisturbed biking in nature.  Choose from top quality mountain bikes, or try our new e- bikes (electric bikes), that are provided by EV global motors, the first product introduced by lee Iacocca’s new Company That Is Focusing On Electric Based Transportation For The Future!

 

 

DESERT DISCOVERY

TEAMBUILDING PROGRAMS

Looking for fun, bonding activities to bring your team together in a memorable way?  Desert Adventures offers several programs that can be enjoyed as a single activity or we can incorporate your favorite activities into a multiple-activity program.   Just tell us what you like, and Desert Adventures will custom design a program just right for YOU!   Desert Adventures' Metate' Canyon Ranch is just what you are looking for!   We can accommodate hundreds of guests at one time, with motor coach access.

 

OPTION 1

JEEP RIDDLE RALLY- SCAVENGER HUNT ADVENTURE

ON THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT

 

 Experience the Real Desert” Your adventure begins the moment we pick you up at your resort on Desert Adventures’ big red jeeps!  (Note: all 3 and 4 hour adventures include hotel pick up.)  Desert Adventures’ naturalist guides (called America’s Best Guides by Conde’ Nast Traveler Magazine) will entertain and educate you every step of the way!  We’ll pass through some of the richest agricultural areas in the world.  Quickly, we’ll cross the All American Canal and turn off-road and enter the strange and eerie world of the “SAN ANDREAS FAULT”.  You’ll explore the San Andreas Fault’s unique geologic features, called the most tortured landscape on Earth. Your jeep will be dwarfed, as we wind through an intricate maze of steep walled canyons and ravines, testifying vividly to the power of the SAN ANDREAS FAULT and the geological evolution of millions of years.  This is the Real Desert!

 

But this is NO regular jeep adventure!  This is a super-adventure, adding an element of competition and challenge to make this a great teambuilding event without a lot of physical activity!  From the moment guests board their jeeps, they will be challenged with questions about the desert and their company.  Each jeep team must work together to solve the questions and take the most creative photos to win this game!  At the end of the rally their will be an awards ceremony, where the winning team will be given and certificate and bottle of champagne.   (Note: Desert Adventures offers logo shirts and caps and other gift ware as prizes).

 

CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE……

 

The INDIAN CULTURAL ADVENTURE visits an authentic archeological site right on the San Andreas Fault.  Tour a replica of a Cahuilla Indian village & learn how these Native Americans thrived in this region for over 2,000 years, living in a close relationship with the land & deriving all their needs from what Mother Nature had to offer.  Marvel at the contrast of a lush natural palm oasis & narrow dry-wash canyons carved by wind & water. FULL CATERING

 

The LOST LEGENDS OF THE WILD WEST ADVENTURE explores "Faultline, Californy," a replica of the Wild West mining camps that sprang up in the late 1800s.  Learn about mining techniques in a walk-through replica of an old mine. Enjoy the colorful local history and legends of a rowdy by-gone era when settlers came here in search of freedom and fortune. FULL CATERING

  

PHOTO RIDDLE RALLY

These brainteasers for the desert explorer are a perfect enhancement for any Desert Adventures jeep (or hiking) adventure.  Each team member must work together to answer riddles, (the clues are part of the guides narration).  From the moment each team begins, riddles like these challenge them:

 

“These tasty plants, a Bighorn’s treat,

Is the favorite snack of the desert sheep”?

 

Trivia questions can also be included that are personalized for your group, or we can add our own desert trivia.  Each team will be given a Polaroid camera, and will work together using their creative energies to create unique photos like:         

     

“Take a team picture with your company logo made out of desert materials”

“Take a picture of a desert animal in the wild”.

 

SCAVENGER HUNT

Keep your eyes peeled for the desert critters and old mining and Indian tools hidden in the cracks and crevices as you explore the desert.

 

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OPTION 2

SURVIVOR ON THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT

ECO-DYNAMICS

TEAMBUILDING ADVENTURES

Teambuilding adventures in the open desert offer the perfect opportunity for groups to play, bond and compete in a unique environment. Desert Adventures offers unique and exciting programs to challenge your group. This is a soft adventure utilizing team skills to the highest level.  Fast, pace action, risk-taking, cooperation, communication and trust in an arena of FUN.  Welcome TO challenge programming, where the heart of our spirit comes from the desire to play.  This allows from creativity, confidence, experience and humor which points again directly to FUN!

 A spontaneous learning experience is created when taking people of their standard frame of reference and engaging them in things new and different.  Programs are designed to seek out your adventure zone and help discover the wilderness potential inside you.

 

These programs build teamwork, challenge personal limits and investigate the nature of human relationships.  All activities can be scaled up or down to meet your group member’s physical requirements and customized to meet your company goals.

 

Teams work together to score the most points on each challenge!  Everyone wants to play in these fun-filled, low element challenges.   Tell us about your group and we will design a program that allows every participant to become important and necessary team members, regardless of physical or age limitations.  So listen carefully and…LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

 

High performance teams are a result of powerful relationship among all members.   These relationships that forge winning teams are supported by effective communication, common goals, and by the trust and excitement built from shared experience.

 

Below are a few sample initiatives.  Activities can be custom designed to fit group profile allowing for all physical abilities to participate.  All equipment and gear is provided.

 

   EXAMPLES OF GAME CHALLENGES AND DESCRIPTIONS

  

 

BALANCE CHALLENGE

After the earthquake, the only safe place is on a board balanced on the Fault.  The entire group (up to 20 participants) must get on the board without anyone touching the ground at any time.  Many variations can be used to make this challenge easier or harder.  This low element initiative is often the favorite with participants.

 

BLINDFOLD TRUST

Do your really trust your Tribe?  You will find out as you try to maneuver your way through a desert maze with just your teammates’ verbal instructions to guide you through.

 

TROLLEY RACES

You thought marching band was hard.  Try and get everyone moving in step on trolleys through a course.  Cooperation, balancing, laughing…Where’s the camera, you gotta see this!

 

LITTLE TITANIC

The unsinkable cruise ship is sinking. Not enough life rafts.  The Life jackets are missing!  And of course (bad news always seems to come in threes), somehow we must get the entire crew on the only remaining life raft.  How does it feel to give support?  Ask for it?  (***Often this is the groups’ favorite initiative).

 

THE SPIDER WEB

Transport the entire team through a large complicated web carrying a life saving serum before the spider returns.  Many variations, and very challenging!

 

MINEFIELD

A blindfolded journey through the unknown! Life has many pitfalls and setbacks, but can ultimately be completed with trust, communication and faith.

 

WALK ABOUT

A volcano must have erupted as there is a molten lava river running through town.  The group standing on top of a melting building finds them in a precarious position.  With only a few 4x4’s and PVC Pipes they must transport the entire group across this inferno before it is too late.  The catch is some of the equipment can withstand the lava and some cannot.  Quick problem solving skills and cohesive team readiness must take place to save yourself and each other. 

 

PARACHUTE THROW

Teamwork and timing is the key to get this parachute inflated above your heads!   There is a lot of fun and laughs in this exercise.

 

So listen carefully, and…LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

 

 

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EXCITING OPTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS

FOR YOUR TEAMBUILDING ADVENTURE

 

 

MOUNTAIN BIKES OR ELECTRIC BIKES

Add an element of excitement by exploring the San Andreas Fault on bicycle.  The numerous hard packed dirt roads offer the perfect location for safe, undisturbed biking in nature.  Choose from top quality mountain bikes, or try our new e- bikes (electric bikes), that are provided by EV global motors, the first product introduced by lee Iacocca’s new Company That Is Focusing On Electric Based Transportation For The Future!

 

ROCK CLIMBING WALL

Now your group can experience the rush and adrenaline of rock climbing right on the San Andreas Fault! Everything you need is provided for the ultimate Rock Climbing Experience!

Our safe but challenging climbing wall allows beginners to expert climbers to enjoy the thrill of the climb. 

 

carnival Games

Our carnival games are always a hit. Try your hand at some of our challenging games including Poker Darts, Softball Pitch, Boot Hill Ring Toss, and more. All of our games are housed in a unique false front game booth decorated to match the theme of your event, not the boring red & white canopies that are most commonly used. Each booth measures 10’ wide x 10’ tall x 10’ deep.

Just a few of our more popular games include

Horseshoe Pitch                                 Poker Darts                                  Ring the Sombrero

                Cow Chip Toss                                    Boot Hill Ring Toss                     Softball Pitch

                Bottle Tip-Up                                        Battle Darts                                   Milk Bottle Knock Down

                Coconut Bowling                                 Tug-A-War                                     Crab Sn

                Parrot Knock Down                             Ring-the-King                               More!!!

 

Hi-Striker

Test your strength at the Hi-Striker. Swing a mallet and attempt to ring the bell on this carnival favorite that includes one attendant.

 

Tomahawk Pitch

Guests will throw Indian tomahawks at a large wooden target with a painted bull’s eye trying to make it stick. This is not as easy as it sounds but always a crowd pleaser. For guests safety entire game area is corralled in split rail fencing. Includes all supplies and staff

 

Bow & Arrow Shooting

Guests will enter our Bow & Arrow Corral and actually have the opportunity to shoot a real bow and arrow. Different targets will be placed on a stack of straw bales. For guest safety the entire game area will be corralled in split rail fencing. Includes bows, arrows, fencing, straw bales for target backboard and staff

 

Indian tepee construction

Guests will actually see how teepees were moved and constructed 150 years ago. Our Indian crew will ride in on their horses while dragging an authentic tepee. They will then demonstrate the method that was used to construct the tepees a hundred years ago with no ladders or modern tools. This is sure to be an interesting and entertaining addition to your event

 

Golf Chipping challenge

Test your accuracy at our chipping challenge. Pitch a golf ball onto our Velcro course and see how close you can get to the pin. 

 

Golf pro driving range

You could be the next Tiger Woods. Test your driving skills in our inflatable golf driving range. This giant inflatable with its great golf graphics will be the perfect addition to your special event. Our special radar will measure speed and distance. 

 

                              

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CONTACT DEB HARDWICK
(760) 831-5545
Fax (760) 318-6793

mailto:Deborah@red-jeep.com

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