Plan your Business Retreat in the Mountains of Idaho
This week a group of business owners from Arizona are enjoying a challenging and rigorous team-building retreat in the mountains near Garden Valley. Each year the group travels to a different state to experience team building combined with different outdoor activities. Last year it was Hawaii.
We have worked on this retreat for the last 11 months to create a unique and totally "Idaho" experience. Today the goup is enjoying ZipIdaho, the zip line at Horseshoe Bend. Tomorrow they will go whitewater rafting on the north fork of the Payette River. In addition to paddling their rafts, they will have to portage them in some areas. After they return to the starting point thoroughly exhausted, the rafting company will host a riverside barbeque.
The highlight activity occurs the day after tomorrow when the group, divided into teams and equipped with GPS instruments and riding ATVs, will have to find five geocaches hidden in the forest surrounding Garden Valley. Lunch will be the third geocache. The first team to arrive will find a gourmet meal served at linen-covered tables complete with china and crystal. The losing team will "enjoy" peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Twinkies on a blanket outside the yurt where the winners eat - close enough to hear what they are missing. That evening the group will attend the Starlight Mountain Theater, where the losing team at lunch will have to wear pig hats.
Spouses will join the group on Friday for a relaxed weekend of golf, swimming, and less strenuous activities.
This has been an interesting and challenging event to plan. I can't say enough good things about the merchants in Garden Valley who have rallied to the idea and who have contributed their expertise to make it happen, particularly Tammy and Brad with Idaho X-treme Sports, Ben and Dennis at Bear Valley River Company, and Eric with Zipidaho.
We have worked on this retreat for the last 11 months to create a unique and totally "Idaho" experience. Today the goup is enjoying ZipIdaho, the zip line at Horseshoe Bend. Tomorrow they will go whitewater rafting on the north fork of the Payette River. In addition to paddling their rafts, they will have to portage them in some areas. After they return to the starting point thoroughly exhausted, the rafting company will host a riverside barbeque.
The highlight activity occurs the day after tomorrow when the group, divided into teams and equipped with GPS instruments and riding ATVs, will have to find five geocaches hidden in the forest surrounding Garden Valley. Lunch will be the third geocache. The first team to arrive will find a gourmet meal served at linen-covered tables complete with china and crystal. The losing team will "enjoy" peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Twinkies on a blanket outside the yurt where the winners eat - close enough to hear what they are missing. That evening the group will attend the Starlight Mountain Theater, where the losing team at lunch will have to wear pig hats.
Spouses will join the group on Friday for a relaxed weekend of golf, swimming, and less strenuous activities.
This has been an interesting and challenging event to plan. I can't say enough good things about the merchants in Garden Valley who have rallied to the idea and who have contributed their expertise to make it happen, particularly Tammy and Brad with Idaho X-treme Sports, Ben and Dennis at Bear Valley River Company, and Eric with Zipidaho.
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