We believe the greatest growth happens when people challenge themselves in extraordinary environments.
Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let’s create something meaningful together.
Challenge With Purpose.
Build stronger teams through shared experience.
Leadership development shouldn't happen only in a conference room.
Our retreats combine facilitated leadership sessions, time in the mountains and the signature 100-Mile Team Challenge to create an experience teams remember—and lessons they take back to work.
Why bring leadership development into the mountains?
A meaningful challenge changes the conversation. Away from meetings, inboxes, and familiar roles, teams have the opportunity to see how they communicate under pressure, how they make decisions, and how they support one another when the goal is bigger than any one person.
The goal is not to identify the “fittest” participant. The goal is to create a structured, inclusive experience where every person has a role in the team’s progress.
Build trust
Shared effort reveals dependability in action. Participants learn what it means to ask for help, offer support, and follow through for one another.
Strengthen communication
Teams practice clear expectations, timely feedback, pace-setting, and real-time problem-solving when conditions change.
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A new environment resets old habits and hierarchies.
Shared effort builds trust faster than any conference room.
Facilitated debriefs connect what happens on the trail to how your team works every day.
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Designed for executive teams, leadership groups, sales organizations, cross-functional teams, and organizations preparing for change, growth, or a new strategic chapter.
This experience is especially relevant when a team wants to:
Build stronger relationships across roles or functions
Improve communication and accountability
Reconnect around a shared purpose
Celebrate a milestone or begin a new operating rhythm
Create a more memorable alternative to a conventional off-site
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We believe some of the most valuable leadership insights emerge when people step outside their usual environment and face a meaningful challenge together.
The 100-Mile Team Challenge is designed around paired effort, team pacing, shared responsibility, and thoughtful participant preparation. It is not an individual competition—it is a shared team experience designed around what the group can accomplish together.
We work with each organization in advance to establish expectations, provide preparation guidance, and shape the experience around the team’s goals, abilities, and overall readiness.
Bring your team to Colorado with a purpose.
Create collective ownership
A shared goal shifts attention from individual performance to group progress, helping teams connect responsibility with a larger outcome.
Three days. One team. 100 miles.
A company-exclusive high-altitude leadership retreat built around one shared goal: complete 100 miles as a team, in pairs, on a scenic mountain loop. Over three program days, your team will arrive and align, prepare and strategize, and take on the challenge together. Alongside the outdoor experience, your company can integrate its own corporate agenda—such as strategy reviews, merger or acquisition discussions, sales recognition, leadership priorities, or team planning—creating space for both meaningful business conversations and a powerful shared challenge. Your team will leave with practical leadership lessons, stronger connections, and clear takeaways to bring back to the business.
Day 1 — Arrival, Check-In & Orientation
Arrive. Settle In. Begin the Journey.
Afternoon — Arrival in Vail or Breckenridge, hotel check-in, and private-room assignment.
Late afternoon — Welcome reception and retreat orientation.
Early evening — Program overview: the next three days, including Company objectives & the 100-Mile Team Challenge, set expectations, and altitude guidance.
Evening — Group dinner. (No alcohol is served to support hydration, rest, and healthy altitude adjustment.)
Day 2 — Leadership Content & Challenge Preparation
Learn. Align. Strategize.
7:30–8:30 AM — Breakfast.
9:00 AM–12:00 PM — Company-led leadership session. Your team’s own content, priorities, and desired outcomes.
12:00–1:00 PM — Performance lunch.
1:30–3:30 PM — 100-Mile Team Challenge preparation. Course orientation, rules, pacing, safety, transition logistics, and team roles.
3:30–4:30 PM — Explore team dynamics, communication, roles and decision-making. Prepare for the 100-Mile Team Challenge—developing your strategy, assigning roles and determining how your team will work together. The team determines how to approach the challenge. Participants contribute according to their individual strengths, abilities and strategy.Team strategy workshop. Who starts? How many people are on the loop at once? How will pairs rotate? Who manages pacing, encouragement, nutrition, and recovery? Final questions, gear check, hydration reminder,
5:00–6:30 PM — Early group dinner.
Purpose: Connect your leadership content to the challenge ahead. The strategy session becomes the first leadership test: making a collective plan before fatigue, pressure, and changing conditions arrive.
Day 3 — The 100-Mile Team Challenge
One Team. 100 Miles. Eight Hours.
6:30 AM — Breakfast.
7:30 AM — Event briefing. Final course review, weather and safety update, pair assignments, timing, and support-plan reminders.
8:00 AM — The 100-Mile Team Challenge begins.
8:00 AM–4:00 PM — The team works together toward one shared objective.
The 100-Mile Team Challenge is the signature field experience within a Traverse Colorado leadership experience. Over a defined challenge window, the team completes 100 cumulative miles through paired running or walking/hiking. Participants move in pairs on a supported loop-based course while the full team works toward one shared objective.
The experience uses a race-format operational design—including course loops, timing, transition points, and team progress tracking—but it is not a race. The emphasis is shared achievement, thoughtful pacing, communication, and team support.
Teams complete cumulative mileage in pairs on a 2.5- to 5-mile loop, depending on the Vail or Breckenridge course. The emphasis is shared achievement, thoughtful pacing, communication, and team support.
The objective isn't individual performance. It's what the team can accomplish together.
4:00 PM — Challenge concludes.
4:00–5:30 PM — Recovery and rest.
6:00–9:30 PM — Debrief, awards, celebration dinner, and lessons learned.
Evening — Closing reflection: what the team will take back to the business.
Purpose: Turn the day into a shared leadership experience—not simply an endurance event. The debrief helps participants communication, trust, role clarity, resilience, and collective decision-making into practical workplace behaviors.
Day 4 — Departure & Application
Reflect. Commit. Return Stronger.
7:30–8:30 AM — Breakfast.
9:00–10:00 AM — Optional company session. Commitments, next steps, and application of retreat lessons.
By 10:00 AM — Hotel check-out and departure.
Purpose: Close with clarity. The optional session gives leadership a structured moment to convert the retreat’s energy into specific commitments, behaviors, and business priorities.
Three days. One team. 100 miles.
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Leadership Retreat Experience - FAQ
Every retreat is customized around your company’s objectives. The constant is the 100-Mile Team Challenge: your team completes 100 cumulative miles in pairs over an eight-hour period on a scenic mountain loop.
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Yes. Each retreat is designed around your objectives, agenda, and desired outcomes. Your company can include its own leadership content, strategy session, sales recognition, merger or acquisition discussion, planning workshop, or other corporate priorities. This is a company-exclusive experience, not a mixed group of participants from different organizations.
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It is a shared team challenge, not a race. Participants complete 100 cumulative miles in pairs running or walking over a giving time on a loop course of approximately 2.5 to 5 miles, depending on the Vail or Breckenridge location.
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No. The challenge is designed around teamwork, pacing, and shared effort. Teams determine their own approach, including who walks, runs, rotates, rests, and supports others, within the event rules and safety guidelines.
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Safety comes first. Course details, timing, or activity plans may be adjusted based on weather, trail conditions, and local guidance. Your team will receive clear communication before and during the retreat.
The retreat is designed with altitude in mind. The arrival day emphasizes hydration, early rest, and a no-alcohol dinner to help participants adjust before the challenge.
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The minimum group size is eight participants. Larger companies may also bring multiple groups from the same organization.
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Absolutely. Your company provides and leads its own content. Common examples include strategy reviews, leadership development, sales recognition, annual planning, team alignment, and merger or acquisition discussions.
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Traverse Colorado designs and manages the overall retreat experience, including the challenge, logistics, orientation, and debrief. Your company leads its own corporate content, with facilitation support available if arranged in advance.
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Meal inclusions are customized by program and confirmed in your proposal. The standard itinerary includes group meals, with alcohol not served on arrival night to support altitude adjustment and rest. Participants receive private hotel rooms; room sharing is not required.
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Pricing is customized based on group size, dates, location, lodging, meeting-space needs, meals, program length, and the level of facilitation or support required.