This adventure race is designed to bring your squad closer together and get you to explore the surrounding area while staying safe and healthy. Please follow the current CDC guidelines and your local authorities for the best ways to protect yourselves and those in your community.

Here Are The Rules

Read each challenge carefully and click on any provided links to view helpful pictures, videos, and requirements for each challenge.

Complete as many challenges as you can between 10am and 1pm. Challenges can be completed in any order. They are designed to bring you together through fun, meaningful, difficult, or embarrassing experiences, so complete whatever challenges you and your group are comfortable with. Just be sure to create some unforgettable moments and insta-worthy content that your group will cherish forever!

Some challenges may require a few basic supplies to complete them. Figuring out how to obtain these supplies somewhere in the area is part of the strategy so work together and use what you’ve got to get what you need.

Teams need to stay together throughout the adventure, however, if you are all at the same location and searching for an item you can spread out until it is found and then regroup to take the necessary picture/video.

Each challenge will require you to take either a picture or video and submit it to our live HQ throughout the race via the “Bonfyre” app. Our HQ will review every submission and either verify it or give you guidance on how to complete the challenge correctly.

Capture as many team members in your picture or video as possible. When out in the community, teams often ask a kind stranger to take their picture/video, or they set up their camera for a timed picture/video so that the entire team can get on film. If it's necessary to have someone on your own team film certain challenges be sure to rotate who that person is so that everyone is actively involved in completing challenges throughout the adventure.

If you have any questions or need any assistance you can contact HQ at any time through the Bonfyre app, via email at HQ@TeamBuildingAnywhere.com, or over the phone at 833-466-8836.

PHYSICAL

#1: May is Bike Month here in Tacoma! Get your team to the downtown bike shop called “Tacoma Bike” (3010 6th Ave). Once there, find a staff member and let them know you're with the Habitat adventure race. They will guide you to a demo bike with a flat tire. Fill up that tire using the provided pump to the PSI they designate. Take a video while doing it or a picture once approved by the staff. Then before you depart be sure to deflate the tire back down so that the next team has to work to fill it up.

#2: What does it mean to “live like the mountain is out”? Well, even on a cloudy day you should get out and experience this incredible place and live life to the fullest. Which is exactly what you’re doing by being a part of this adventure race, so go you! Although Rainer can be seen from lots of places around the county, get your team to any of the 3 Pierce County locations listed HERE (number 1, 4, or 5) which are some of the most “insta-worthy” places to show your gratitude for the majestic mountain. Each listing has a very specific GPS coordinate in the description that you can plug into your map program to be sure you’re at the correct viewpoint. Once there, take a video of your team all doing 10 “mountain climber” exercises with Rainer in the background, or at least where it is located. To learn how to do proper “mountain climbers” you can click HERE.

#3: The Tacoma Fire Department, which formed in 1881, is three years older than the city it serves. Back then many volunteer firefighters often had to spend their own money to feed the horses that pulled the hand-pumped water tanks. To honor the dedication all first responders have for this community both past and present, take a video of your team completing "Stop, Drop, and Roll" in front of ANY working fire station around the county. Be sure to yell each step of the fire safety technique as you do it and make sure the Fire Station is clearly visible and identifiable in the background.

#4: Get your team to the Proctor Street Trailhead within the Puget Creek Natural Area. The trailhead, and some parking, are located close to 3748 North 31st Street in Tacoma. Once there, hike the Proctor Street Trail down and back. This serene trek through the woods is only 0.16 of a mile each way but has a 140 foot elevation gain. To verify you’ve done the full trail submit a picture or video at each of the trail endpoints. So a team picture or video at the top of the trail near where you parked and one at the bottom of all the steps, where the trail connects to the Puget Creek Trail. To view a helpful guide for this challenge, including a trail map and a virtual walk through video click HERE.

SKILL

#5: Gray Lumber is presenting this year’s Beyond The Backyard event! Get to their retail location, at 3800 6th Ave in Tacoma. Once there, find their large outdoor storage rack located behind the four American flags. Along the top face of that rack is a long string of small yellow and green flags. As a team count every single yellow and green flag along the top of that rack. Once you believe you have an accurate count take a fun team picture with the Gray Lumber logo in the background and submit the number of flags you counted. The challenge here is that you only get 3 attempts to submit the correct number before this challenge becomes blocked for your team! As a kind gesture we’ll allow you to get within 5 flags plus or minus of the actual number. So take your time, work together, and get it right the first time so that you can move on quickly. To view a picture of the flags you need to count click HERE.

#6: Almost 100 years ago Tacomans, and a pilot named Harold Bromley, were obsessed with taking off from Tacoma to become the first solo flight across the Pacific. With his plane that he named the “City of Tacoma” he failed repeatedly and was never able to give this city the recognition it deserved. Redeem Harold and this city by taking a video of your team completing the "Paper Airplane Challenge". Basically send one team member to the 2nd level of any building or parking garage and have them toss a homemade paper airplane out into the air in front of them. The rest of your team should be on the sidewalk or grass below. Any one of your team members at ground level needs to catch the plane before it hits the ground, although all team members can be attempting to catch it. To watch a group complete this challenge successfully click HERE.

#7: Somewhere outdoors, take a video of any one team member balancing a large (16 ounces or so) open-top paper, plastic, or foam cup on their head filled with water. Then have them walk 10 paces ahead without touching the cup or having it fall off at any point during their walk. If you touch the cup or it drops, fill the cup back up with water, re-balance, and start again. All team members can attempt this challenge at the same time but only one needs to be successful. After they have taken the 10 paces successfully keep the recording going and have them grab the cup off their head and dump the water out so we can verify it was filled up.

#8: Take a video of any racer tossing an unwrapped slice of cheese onto the face of another racer from more than 8 feet away. The person “catching” the cheese can maneuver their head and body as long as they remain at least 8 feet from the thrower. The cheese will need to stick to their face to be accepted, so they can tilt their head back slightly to create a better landing area if needed. The challenge really comes down to the thrower being able to accurately toss cheese onto a small target, and the catcher being alright with dirty and sticky dairy products repeatedly smacking them in the face.

FIND

#9: May is the month where we get to celebrate not only the mothers in our lives but all women that have raised us, shaped us, and supported us along the way. Find any woman pushing a stroller around the area and take a video of your team members all air hugging or air high-fiving her while you give her words of encouragement such as "we believe in you", "you're awesome", "you're doing a great job", etc. Make sure your video shows the stroller at some point, although the child doesn’t need to be recorded.

#10: Get to the location where the two grumpy characters seen HERE can be found. Once you’ve found them, take a fun or silly team picture trying to cheer them up while those characters are visible in the background.

#11: This region has created some legendary music and bands over the years, and fans from this area never hesitate to get behind the groups they love. This challenge will have you “get behind” some more iconic artists, literally. Get to any local record store or browse your own albums at home and take a fun picture creating “SleeveFace” illusions with any album sleeves that are conducive for creating this effect. To learn what a SleeveFace illusion is and to see some examples click HERE.

#12: A critical component in creating meaningful change is advocacy. Find some construction hand tools or safety equipment and get dressed up in your best construction outfits. Then get to the current Habitat build site (1061 S 88th St Tacoma) and take a picture flexing your muscles and your tools with the build site in the background. Then download the TouchNote app on your mobile device and log in with an email address or social media credentials to create a new account. New accounts get a 14 day free trial and the ability to create 2 free postcards. Using one of those free postcards and the picture you took at the build site, create a postcard and send it to either Executive Dammeier or Governor Inslee and ask them to support affordable housing legislation. We have created a guide which you can view HERE that includes their addresses and example verbiage depending on which official you choose. Once completed, send a screenshot of the card to our HQ for verification.

FUN

#13: Anytime after 11am (when this checkpoint opens), grab a spoon for each team member and bring it to The Red Hot (2914 6th Ave, Tacoma). Just inside the front door their staff will have a bucket of hot sauce to-go packets for all adventure racers. Grab enough packets to create a spoonful of hot sauce per racer and head back outside to actually do the challenge. Take a video of your team members all consuming your separate spoonfuls of hot sauce while The Red Hot logo is visible somewhere in the background. When finished be sure to properly dispose of your packets or carry them out with you.

#14: Find a willing MALE team member, friend, or stranger and take a video of your team using any brand of hair removal strips to safely remove one strip of their chest, back, arm, or leg hair according to the instructions on the package. Choose one body location that they feel comfortable getting “waxed”, and has enough hair that it would show up on the strip after being removed. Just a warning that if you choose to do this to a friend you may want to treat them to dinner after the race, or else they might not be your friend much longer.

#15: Scotch Tape has been used for everything from wrapping gifts to protecting blimps. To celebrate one of the most ubiquitous and successful American products ever developed take a fun group picture after everyone uses Scotch tape to stretch and distort their faces. For some inspiration click HERE.

#16: May is Older Americans Month and Tacoma Habitat is marking it with their Aging In Place Program (you can learn more about it or support it HERE). Find someone in Pierce County over the age of 65 and either visit them in person or video chat them if that is safer for everyone. Once you are connected with them complete ONE of these options. Option 1 is have them get their favorite photo in their house, or at least one that is very meaningful to them and have them tell the story of it or why it's so special. Or Option 2 would be having them tell your team what their favorite song is and have someone on your team pull it up and play it on their device and everyone listens to the entire song together. Then have them tell you why they love the song, a memory it reminds them of, or if it's an upbeat song maybe even have your team all dance to the song (socially distanced of course). Once you’ve chosen which option you will complete take a video during a portion of your interaction with them and submit it to HQ.