subject: Grand Canyon Rafting Trips Are The Perfect Team-building Events To Improve Workplace Morale [print this page] Looking to schedule a company excursion to increase morale in the workplace? Want it to take place somewhere memorable and have it be a truly one-of-a-kind outdoor adventure experience? If so, then the answer is simple: take a Grand Canyon rafting trip down the great Colorado River. When people think about visiting the Grand Canyon, they think of family vacations or spring break trips with friends. However, it's also a fantastic working retreat for businesses who want to reward their devoted employees and have them take part in team-building exercises. Grand Canyon white water rafting trips are thrilling, enjoyable, and naturally, nothing short of extraordinary.
Grand Canyon river raft trips down a stretch of the Colorado River provide people the chance to experience otherwise hard-to-reach parts of the national park. Guided raft trips on the river are ideal for large groups of families, friends or, as it were, employees working on team-building exercises. Besides the real thrill of white water rafting one of the world's wildest rivers through the geological wonder that is the Grand Canyon, guided group trips with a commercial outfitter stand out for some other reasons as well:
Commercial outfitters handle every preliminary step, including obtaining all permits; and collecting all boat, safety, cooking, waste removal and sleeping gear. Additionally, they manage all the food and fresh water you'll need for your journey.
Every member in your group needs to bring just a couple things, including a small bag of personal items including essential clothing and toiletries, and other things like a digital camera, sun glasses, hat, medications, etc.
Their guides serve as raft navigators, chefs, historians, hike leaders, resident conservationists, and all-around river authorities
Your employees don't have to be expert river dogs to go on a Colorado River rafting trip. However, everyone needs to be in good health with no serious physical impairments, and should be able to handle extreme temperatures and be capable of backpacking over tough terrain.
Assuming a company team-building trip entails at least one overnight, here's what to expect from a typical day on the water:
Wake up, eat breakfast and break down the camp
Load up the rafts and head out for a few hours of incredible whitewater rafting; several mammoth rapids like Lava Falls and Crystal, await you!
A few stops along the way for a picturesque side hike a ways up the canyon
Stop for lunch (one of the hikes probably will happen at this time), and set out again
Venture to the next camping area before the sun sets, do the "duffel shuffle" (unloading the rafts), make camp, eat dinner, and be entertained by your guide's fabulous story-telling skills
Hit the hay, wake up, and do it all over again
If a trip like this sounds too good to pass up, companies shouldn't hesitate to contact a professional Colorado River whitewater rafting outfitter. Apart from the obvious benefits of hiring an outfitter as listed above, trying to obtain a private-use permit for Grand Canyon raft trips can be a disappointing experience, since it's based on a lottery system. Going it alone also means you'll have to put everything together yourself - permits, load-in and load-out transport, boats, food, water, sleeping gear, etc. Save yourself a lot of time, money and aggravation and employ a professional to do all this for your group, but be sure to plan well in advance because the spots fill up fast.
On a trip like this, your employees' intelligence, expertise and teamwork will be put to the ultimate test. The harsh, unbridled reality of Mother nature will expose any leaks in the boat, so to speak, and it will quickly become obvious that only via trust and teamwork will the experience be successful.
