Newsletter Articles

Tower Talk is Alpine Tower International's quarterly newsletter. Our focus is to keep you informed on new technology, risk management issues, business development, and personal development.

We have provided downloadable newsletters from previous issues. In addition, you will find articles from the past 10 newsletters that relate to the following 3 areas:

• Programmatic
• Business/Staff Development
• Risk Management

Tower Talk Newsletters

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• Developing a Challenge Course Program on Your Campus!
    NIRSA Presentation April 12, 2002
• Risk Management for Collegiate Challenge Course Programs   (Presentation Outline April 23, 2002)

  Supporting Documents:

  1. Alpine Towers on Campus: a brief look at the use of challenge courses at colleges and universities (pdf)
  2. ATI's 10-year safety study (pdf)
  3. ATI - Risk Management (pdf)

Programmatic

• Exploring The Five Stages of Group Formation Using Adventure-Based Activities (pdf format) File size: 140 KB
• Do Your Spring Cleaning Now
• Reflections as President of Alpine Towers
• The Goal Line
• Alpine Towers on Campus:   A Brief Look at the use of Challenge Courses at Colleges and Universities (pdf format)
• Adventure-Based Learning Research, Literature, Resources, and Information (pdf format)
• Teamwork & Teamplay: 2B or KNOT 2B (pdf format)
• Secrets of tightening guy lines
• No boundaries
• Ideas for your tower
• An introduction to challenge by choice for adventure-based, educational programs
• Body part debrief
• Are you puzzled?
• Bombproof sheds
• Help! Ideas to debrief an Alpine Tower experience
• Trends in climbing walls and challenge courses
• Severe weather on the way?
• Warner Bros. Presents:   Woody Woodpecker takes on the Alpine Tower

Business/Staff Development

1. Going to the top to attract more participants
2. A guide to developing an effective brochure
3. Conducting quality photo shoots
4. Interviewing new employees for your program
5. Marketing your program is a gift to the world!
6. Staff training
7. "Why did we do that?"
8. Zapping Tolerations
9. Communication with Your Employees
10. 2001 Commitments

Risk Management

1. Two Alpine Tower Accident/Incident Reports (pdf format) File size: 52 KB
2. CCA in the news: What ACCT knows about the current CCA Wood Treatment Controversy (pdf format)
3. ATI Stance on CCA-Treated Wood Products (pdf format)
4. Preparing a Manual for your Challenge Course (pdf format)
5. ATI's 10-year safety study (pdf format)
6. ATI Position on climbing rope retirement and rope care
7. Strandvises^® and the challenge course industry
8. TWP
9. Medical screening
10. Management stretch
11. Back-ups!
12. Lightning safety and the ATI experience
13. Protecting outdoor educators and guides from bloodborne pathogens
14. Do I have to remove my jewelry?
15. Protect yourself
16. Preparing for our own annual inspection
17. Cable corrosion
18. Helmet-wise
19. Avoiding Fundamental Errors
20. More Help with Rope Retirement

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