Inner Quest

Inner Quest has been maintaining our low ropes course at are summer camp facility for as long as I can remember and they have always done a professional job. They insure that are obstacles are up to code and safe. They also train our Ropes Instructors each summer and they are very patient with our counselors and really take pride in making sure that everyone knows what they are doing.
Keep up the good work and we will see you this summer.
Camp Moss Hollow
Butch

Field Trip Fairy made me another offer I couldn’t refuse: a glorious fall day spent on the idyllic campus of Madeira School in Great Falls, ziplining down a hillside and watching 6^th graders try to figure out how to ring a tractor tire around a 15-​foot pole sticking straight up in the air? Yes, please. Sign me up.
Inner Quest is an awesome little adventure-​learning company based out of Purcellville, but with various sites and programs around the Virginia/​West Virginia/​Maryland area. Their challenge course at Madeira is huge and elaborate, encompassing several acres in the woods. Elements range from freakishly hard to anxiety-​inducing heights to deceptively simple team-​building.
This was my second time undertaking the Madeira challenge course with Inner Quest: the first was 17 years ago as a scared-​witless high school freshman. We’d moved from Texas that summer, and I was friendless since school hadn’t started yet. Ma O. thought an Inner Quest program would be a great way for me to make friends. A random group of 12 of us spent a day on the challenge course, and the next 5 days hiking the Appalachian Trail in VA and MD, schlepping our packs, pitching our tents, cooking our food, and digging our own latrines. Ma O. was right: Inner Quest *was* a great way to make friends. Nothing bonds you quicker than mole-​skinning blisters and burying your TP with strangers. I still remember our counselors, too — unkempt adventurers with the nicest, most soothing, and helpfully instructive demeanors.
Today’s counselors were equally patient and kind with our kiddos. Our guys enjoyed themselves tremendously at Inner Quest, as did the adults (hello, zipline, I feel like a kid again!). Teamwork, pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, taking calculated risks, trusting others — these are life lessons you just can’t teach in the classroom.