Wildfire Adventure Camp is thrilled to announce its first wave of adventure activities and challenges for this summer’s event.
This award-winning festival embodies the spirit of childhood summer camps, when everyone could enjoy team pursuits, challenge themselves mentally, learn a new skill or discover their dormant creative abilities.
Despite its affectionate nod to nostalgia, it is a festival most definitely suited to the contemporary participant. Tailor-made for adults only, it is the perfect weekend for those who wish to escape the stresses of everyday life but need new and more interesting stuff to do. There’s an incredible cornucopia of pursuits, some of which are just downright strange, others may be more familiar, but all are thoroughly absorbing. Not forgetting a programme of eclectic live music and djs every evening, with wild forest parties, curated by the award-winning LeeFest team.. All can be pre-booked with one single overall ticket price.
Top picks for 2017 include: Extreme Hill Zorbing, Hammer Horror Mud Run, Archery Battles, Hemp Ice Cream Making and Wild Game Cooking.
Our first array of announced activities starts here. Enjoy!
NEW FOR 2017:
Extreme Hill Rolling (Zorbing):
Ever wondered what it's like to be trapped inside a ball and flung at 30 miles an hour downhill? Well, now's the time to find out. This is old fashioned rolling on a hill.. taken to the extreme. Try to steer your sphere into the point-winning targets and avoid the obstacles, whilst making it down the wildfire slopes in a winning time. You can rack up even more points for your patrol by hill running ahead of your fellow adventurers when they are the ones doing the rolling and reaching the bottom without getting splatted.
Bow Battles:
Bow Battles: paintball, but with bows and arrows. Yes, you'll shoot someone. And yes, you'll get shot. In this intense and exciting combat sport you'll use foam-tipped arrows to shoot at your opponents, ducking behind obstacles and trying to avoid being eliminated. Our expert instructors will teach you some tricks and skills to get you through your battles, preparing you to duck and dodge, and even catch arrows as they whizz past your head.
Hemp Ice Cream Making:
Forget Mr Whippy, it's all about making your own ice cream from raw natural ingredients like hemp. You'll be taken through the whole process in this hour and a half workshop, walking away with your very own, hand whipped, home (well, woodland) made ice cream. Just make sure you find the Camp Chiefs and offer them a lick.
Wild Obstacle Course:
Including open ground, woodland, lakes and thick mud, this obstacle course will have you climbing, jumping, wading and crawling. Test your skill and strength or simply flail wildly through it in a fit of laughter. Either way, you're going to get to know the wildfire estate rather intimately (by this we mean end up with mud in places you can't reach).
Hammer Horror Mud Run:
Run for your lives through the wildfire woodland, ducking, dodging and screaming away from a horrifying array of beasts. Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula and scores of the undead will all be trying to grab the 3 tags you'll be wearing on a belt, representing your heart, lungs and brain. Make it through the gauntlet with all 3 intact and you'll be given a survivors welcome. Lose more than one, and you'll be joining the ranks of the undead in trying to catch those still living.
Wild Game Cooking:
Grill wild venison on our open campfire under the guidance of our survival experts whilst listening to some seriously extreme adventurers tell their treacherous tales of travel.
Plus: High Wire Rope Course, Leap of Faith, Bee Keeping, Scavenger Hunt, Archery, Extreme Water Slide, Stand-up Paddle Boarding, Sign Language, Wood Fired Hot Tubs, Survival Skills, Rifle & Pistol shooting, Swing Dancing, Jewellery Making, Meditation and Mindfulness, Pioneering, Aerial Circus, Macramé and Nipple Tassel Making! And much much more.
Published on 13 February 2017 by Ben Robinson
