Basler Team Challenge & Aerial Adventure Course

Campus Recreation

The Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course is a state of the art low and high ropes outdoor experience. The course offers a full range of adventurous activities including: ground-level team building initiatives; two ziplines; a giant swing; quick descent; and a three-level aerial challenge tower with elements ranging from easy to difficult and between 15 – 45 feet in the air.

Events at the Challenge Course - Fall 2025

These events are FREE to current Students/Faculty/Staff of ETSU!

Register Here for Events at the Challenge Course

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Zip N' Sip (Smoothies) - Free

Date: Sept. 11 
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Registration Opens: Aug. 30
Registration Closes: Sept. 11 (5:00pm)
Cost: FREE
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    Make a personal smoothie on the smoothie bike and fly through the sky! Outdoor Adventure invites you to expereince a classic of ETSU! Come out and sail the zipline and make a sweet treat to enjoy in the heat! All ingredients provided by OA. Bike power provided bu YOU!

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1-3 - Easy Active to Vigorous

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Full Open Course - Free

Date: Sept. 24
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Registration Opens: Sept. 10
Registration Closes: Sept. 24 (5:00pm)
Cost: FREE
  • Details

    Join OA at the Challenge Course to experience all the course has to offer. Most if not all elements will be open possibly including the Aerial Course, the Giant Swing, the Rappel Wall, and the Zip Lines! Celebrate life through connecting with your inner challenge by seeing it from a new vantage point! Food (potentially), music, and fun will be onsite for all!

    Experience Level: No Experience 

    Fitness Level: Level 2-3 – Moderate to Vigorous

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Giant Swings and Giant S'Mores- Free


Date: Oct. 21

Location: Challenge Course

Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Registration Opens: Oct. 7
Registration Closes: Oct. 21 (5:00pm)

Cost: FREE
  • Details

    Make a personal s'more on the fire and swing through the sky! Outdoor Adventure invites you to expereince a classic of ETSU! Come out and expereince the giant swing and make a sweet treat to enjoy in the fall evening! All ingredients provided by OA. perfect crisp on a mallow provided by YOU!!

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1-3 - Easy Active to Vigorous

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Holiday Lights Full Open Course- Free

Date: Nov. 13
Location: Challenge Course
Time: 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Registration Opens: Oct. 30

Registration Closes: Nov. 13 (5:00pm)
Cost: FREE
  • Details

    Celebrate the night and the season out at the challenge course. Expereince the levels, the quick flight, and the zipline while taking in the lights! Glowing outfits are a must!

    Experience Level: No Experience

    Fitness Level: Level 1-3 - Easy Active to Vigorous

  • Reservations
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    Reservations

    Reserved programs are available for all! The Challenge Course (similar to a giant obstacle course in the air!) offers the opportunity for participants to stretch their physical and mental limits and includes 21 unique climbing, zipping, walking, balancing, and swinging challenges as participants move from element to element. The Low Course offers more teambuilding and group focused activities on and close to the ground.
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    Perhaps your group is a newly formed club, medical team, community group, or school class. All can find challenge, teamwork, and ways to explore group dynamics through creative thinking and working together. Outdoor Adventure can tailor programs to suit your goals.
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    Group Types
    • ETSU Groups: Classes, activity groups, departments, sororities and fraternities can all reserve the challenge course and teambuilding services from Outdoor Adventure.
    • Non-Profit and ETSU Sponsored Groups: Local non-profit groups, schools, sports teams, and ETSU sponsored groups can experience the course and teambuilding elements with Outdoor Adventure.
    • Community Groups: Any group outside of ETSU is welcome to reserve the course or teambuilding event with ETSU Outdoor Adventure.
    Click HERE or below to begin your reservation!!

To make a reservation for the Challenge Course or a Teambuilding Event, please fill out the:

Challenge Course and Teambuilding Event Reservation Form

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For questions about the Challenge Course please visit the Outdoor Adventure Center during regular hours or email Outdoor Adventure.

 

Locations: The Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course is located on ETSU’s campus at 503 Go Bucs Trail. The Challenge Course Pavilion is located at 505 Go Bucs Trail. Parking is available in lot 22A across from the challenge course pavilion on Go Bucs Trail. 

Challenge Course Info and Documents

Groups must have a minimum of eight (8) participants or pay for a minimum of eight (8) participants.

If there are 6 or more people using a recreation space for an activity, excluding open/informal recreation, this is considered a group that must have an approved reservation to use the space.

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