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Rock Climbing & Rappelling
Half Day Rappel
With improvements in climbing equipment and technique, rappelling has grown into a unique means of personal challenge. An ACE Guide constructs and manages the rope systems and fits you into your harnesses. After a lesson in rappelling technique, your guide ties you into an extra safety rope, puts you on belay and links you to the primary rappel ropes. Then, when all is ready, you lean back and begin your controlled descent. This does not teach you how to do this on your own, but provides a true rappelling experience. No previous experience is required.
Climbing Experience
Rock climbing is a sport that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities. The New River Gorge is lined with some of the best climbing in North America. Join us, this year, in the vertical world of West Virginia, for an introduction to this dynamic sport. Our professional guides are experienced climbers, as well as skilled teachers and will acquaint your group to rock climibng in West Virginia. In addition to a day of climbing, your group benefits from metaphors inherent in climbing, such as trust, communication and turning fear into a positive. All equipment rental, instruction, gourmet lunch and local transportation is included.
1/2 Day Climbing or Rappelling Sampler@ ACE.
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Min. Age: 8
Available Sunday through Friday in June, July and August
Full Day Climbing or Rappelling
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Min. Age: 8
Available Sunday through Friday
Kayak Instruction
All Day Rapid Experience
The New River and the Gauley River hold some of the finest kayaking opportunities in North America. In fact, the region supports perhaps the largest concentration of world class boaters in the country. If you are interested in kayaking, but want to try it before making an intensive instructional commitment, the one day kayaking sampler is for you. Your group begins on easy water, learning the basics. Then, in the afternoon, you apply the morning lessons to moving current in a suitable section of the New River. To master the sport takes time and dedication and our kayaking sampler is a great way to start. Includes all equipment, professional ACE kayaking instructor, local transportation and a delicious ACE lunch.
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Min. Age: 12
Available Sunday through Friday
Customized Kayak Instruction
Kayaking, like any adventure sport, requires time and dedication. Our kayak instructors understand this better than anyone. They remember what it was like to be a complete novice and know what it takes to rise to the cutting edge. Our Building Block Learning Method was designed by our kayak instructors to be personalized and tailored to enhance your learning curve by working with your own strengths and weaknesses. Whether a beginner learning to roll in our private lake, an intermediate ready to "break-through" to the next level, or an advanced kayaker ready to take on a little stunt boating, we have the experience to help open the world of kayaking to you and your group.
After many years of teaching kayaking, we find that it is best to take instruction in blocks of two days or more.The Customized Kayak Instruction includes all equipment, local transportation, and an ACE lunch.
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Min. Age: 12
Available Sunday through Friday
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Horseback Riding
Scenic Overlook & Sunset Rides
Finish your day of ACE activities with an easy horseback ride through the New River Gorge. The 1,400 acre ACE Adventure Center is the backdrop for this delightful morning or evening ride. You will enjoy a beautiful view of the meandering river, 800 feet below the canyon rim.
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Approx. Trip Time: 2 1/2 Hours
Min. Recommended Age: 8
Min. Recommended Height: 50 inches
Min. Recommended Weight: 60 pounds
Scenic Waterfall Ride
Brilliant waterfalls are fed by the numerous creeks that drop to the New River through the ACE Adventure Center. For about three hours, our horseback guides take you to these remote waterfalls sheltered in coves carved by thousands of years of flowing water.
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Approx. Trip Time: 3 1/2 Hours
Min. Recommended Age: 8
Min. Recommended Height: 50 inches
Min. Recommended Weight: 60 pounds
Half Day Ride To River
The half day ride leaves from ACE's own horse stables, tracing the trails of the New River Gorge. You descend through ACE's 1,400 acres to our private New River beach. For approximately four hours your group rides through the beauty and history of the New River Gorge on a sturdy ACE horse.
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Approx. Trip Time: 4 Hours
Min. Recommended Age: 10
Min. Recommended Height: 54 inches
Min. Recommended Weight: 80 pounds
ACE Mountain Biking
The ACE Mountain Bike Center
Our 1,400 acre ACE Mountain Bike Center is constantly evolving, year after year. This year, we have all new mountain bikes for our rental program and a new bike shop. Bordered on three sides by the New River Gorge National River, our extensive trail system links with all major National Park Service trails. Ride out from your campsite, and you are at a hub for hundreds of miles of fine trails and beautiful back roads. We invite you to bring your own mountain bike, or rent one of ours for a full day. Your group can even take a one day instructional clinic with a professional ACE mountain bike guide.
Full Day Guided Mountain Bike Trip
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Min. Age: 10
Available Sunday through Friday
Half Day Guided Mountain Bike Trip
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Min. Age: 8
Available Sunday through Friday
Full Day Rental
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Min. Age: 8
ACE offers: Regular Mt. Bikes, Front Suspension Mt. Bikes, and Full Suspension Mt. Bikes
Half Day Rental
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Min. Age: 8
Kids 8-11: $10
ACE offers: Regular Mt. Bikes, Front Suspension Mt. Bikes, and Full Suspension Mt. Bikes
Wild Cave Exploration
Caving in West Virginia's Mountains
West Virginia is rich with limestone cave systems. ACE caving guides will bring you inside the earth to explore caves that are not open to the regular public. Caves are a fragile ecosystem, requiring care and attention. Our ACE guides will take great care to see that your cave experience, while interesting and fun, will minimize impact to this fragile ecosystem. There is more to caving than just crawling through the underground chambers. Your group will learn about earth processes, geology, ecology, and the unique life that inhabits a natural cave. Trips meet at the ACE Adventure Center and travel to cave systems in eastern West Virginia. All equipment, local transportation, an ACE caving guide, and lunch are included.
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Min. Age: 8
Available Sunday through Friday
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This information is for Boy Scout Counselors who plan on bringing their troop to ACE Adventure Center to obtain a Whitewater Merit Badge. The main precursor to this Merit Badge is the Canoeing Merit Badge. Any scout who wishes to obtain a Whitewater Merit Badge MUST have a Canoeing Merit Badge and have proof of such. If a scout does not have the Canoe Merit Badge or does not have validation of such, he is more than welcome to participate in the activities but an ACE Counselor CAN NOT approve his Whitewater Merit Badge. Please do not ask us to do this or it will jeopardize our participation in this program. BE PREPARED.
Your troop must be ready to accomplish the following:
1. Show that they know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while working toward their Whitewater Merit Badge including, but not limited to; hypothermia, heatstroke, heat exhaustion, dehydration, sunburn, insect stings, tick bites, blisters, and hyperventilation. Being able to recognize each of these situations is a must. Scouts will be asking things like how to differentiate between heatstroke and heat exhaustion.
2. Be able to identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR and how conditions are recognized.*
3. Demonstrate proper technique for CPR using proper training device or fellow troop members. *
4. Demonstrate canoe-handling skills by completing the Scout Gate Test within two (2) minutes while paddling in tandem.
5. Compare Boy Scout Safety Afloat and the American Whitewater Affiliation Safety Code. Scouts must be able to demonstrate their understanding of this by answering questions from the ACE counselor. These items can be found at:
8. Be ready to explain how to "read" whitewater. Scouts will be asked to do this from shore.
9. Be ready to demonstrate the following paddling strokes and maneuvers:
Forward, backwards, eddy turns and peel-outs, high and low braces. We will use either "sport-yaks" (aka sit-on-top kayaks) or "fun-yaks" (aka duckies) or both.
10. Be ready to demonstrate:
Self and equipment rescue in moving water.
Self-rescue of others in moving water- throw bags, boat assist rescue.
Portaging.
* We can provide a CPR certification course for your scouts. It will take an additional five (5) hours to the two days that are designed for your group to earn their Whitewater Merit Badge. There will also be an additional cost involved that goes to the American Red Cross, for this class. Your scouts will, however, be certified as a CPR provider through the American Red Cross. If you plan on this option we need three (3) weeks lead time to schedule instructors.
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