Manitou Springs Historical Scavenger Pursuit
Team Scavenger Hunt

What does the ‘Fruit Cake Toss’ and the ‘Emma Crawford Coffin Race’ have to do with the Manitou Springs Scavenger Pursuit?  These are just a few of the lively historical facts teams will learn as they navigate their way through the streets of the past in this gem of a town.  The health-giving waters of Manitou Springs first discovered in 1820 brought explorers from across the U.S. to the area creating a new history at the base of majestic Pikes Peak.  Your team will continue creating history while experiencing the Manitou Springs Scavenger Pursuit.

The Manitou Springs Scavenger Pursuit is a dynamic, competitive, strategic and intensely collaborative event.  Teams will be on the move as they navigate and solve a variety of challenges.  Highly collaborative, intensely competitive, and the complexity of managing multiple challenges simultaneously is the key to maximizing performance revenues during the designated time period.  The key to success is to recognize the strengths that all team members bring to the team; allocate expertise effectively; develop a big picture strategy; and manage a ‘multi-tasking’ challenge in a limited period of time.
Each team will receive their mission that includes a diversity of activities: 

1. Navigation: 

   Teams will be supplies with backpacks; supplies; maps and materials to accomplish a variety of challenges.  The entire time period will require team to travel to various points of interest in Manitou Springs where they may find additional team challenges that require quick thinking and effective teamwork.  It is up to the team on how they want to manage their time and what challenges they decide to pursue.
   
   

2. Strategic Adventure Activities:

   These are ‘short collaborative events’ that will require the team to think quickly!  Strategy and effective execution are the keys to success.  The objective is to locate and successfully complete each of these activities.
   
   

3. Clue Challenges:

   The team will be given a number of ‘Clues’ that will lead them to various points of interest in Manitou Springs.  Team members must solve the clue, determine where the clue answer is located, travel to the clue locations, and take a team photo at the site.
   
   

4. Photo Challenge:

   Each team will be given a digital camera with a list of required photo challenges.  The objective is to decipher what the challenge requires, be open to the ‘periphery’ to locate the photo challenge locations, and document their team at that location.  It will require the ability to balance a ‘big picture’ approach with ‘focused attention’ on other simultaneous activities.

Our commitment is to provide an experience for your team that tests the ability of team members to collaborate under the pressure of a fast paced competitive event. We are dedicated to integrating the specific team and leadership challenges and opportunities that your team currently faces into the overall event.  Teams will walk away with thought provoking learning and actionable steps that will increase individual and team performance.

The Manitou Springs Historical Scavenger Pursuit can range from 1 ½ hours to a half day event.  It can also be expanded to a full day by combining it with one of our many other Team Building Adventures.