Where Does Challenge Course Technology Fit In?
A number of arguments can be made for treating Canopy Tour courses as yet another development of the challenge course industry. Zip lines have always been a powerful element in the repertoire of activities available to adventure educators. They form a part of many a challenge course and are usually guaranteed to provide the peak experience so prized by many programmers. Applicable installation techniques and operational practices are published in the current ACCT standards guide. Most other elements (bridges, transfer platforms, overhead belays, rappel stations) included in Canopy Tours and Zip Tours are already covered by those standards, as well. Thus an interconnected series of zip traverses, high bridges, andin the case of some recently constructed hybrid coursestraditional challenge course elements, is not a new kind of structure but a variation or extension of what is already quite familiar to ACCT members. At the heart of most challenge course programs are the concepts of the mu
