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Wakeboarding weekend
16th – 18th August £90 (£65 MatesRates) We have found the most picturesque spot on the North Devon Coast with beautiful panoramic sea and countryside views along with amazing sunsets over a tiny island called Lundy.Sold!? We’re heading to Westacott Farm Campsite (about 10 minutes from Bideford). It’s a beautiful spot with fantastic facilities including a…
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Warwickshire Weekender
Lou is gonna run a trip next weekend, can you join her?! 29th & 30th June £60pp The plan: Saturday – Meet at Spot on Wake at 12:00pm, where we can take on water based activities from Wakeboarding, Paddleboarding, or try out the floating rope course in the Aqua Jungle. Don’t worry if you are…
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New for winter 23/24
One of the best things about our brilliant ski area, The Portes du Soleil is the continuing investment in the infrastructure. It seems almost every year there is a new lift somewhere in the area and this year is no exception! On the ‘Swiss side’ from the village of Morgins the slightly decrepit 40yr old…
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The Summer Party
1st July 2023, No Charge. Tamesis Dock Boat, London Fancy a cheeky half? It’s about time we had a party… that bloomin virus got in the way for a bit, but this year we’re up for a big one! It doesn’t matter if you have even ever been on one of our trips before –…
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Ski / Snowboard Packing List
If you have never been away on a ski / snowboard trip before – it’s quite understandable that you might be a little confused about what you should be taking with you. The whole thing can be a little overwhelming. The first thing you need to know is that (unless you’re going to some poncey…
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Wrist guard or no wrist guard?
We get asked this loads by beginner snowboarders. There is a debate out there and there is truth on both sides of the discussion but from our own experience the most common snowboard injury is a damaged wrist… People do say that if you wear a wrist guard then the injury sustained is more likely…
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Hallowe’en surf trip 2022
We had a blast. In the end there were 27 of us staying at Retorrick Mill. The weather was a real mixed bag. Saturday morning the waves were a bit sketchy and the current was insane, but a few of us went in in the afternoon also and found some good ones, while the others…
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Trip to the Steam Rally?!
It’s not normally top of our activity list – we try to do active, exciting and sometimes ‘extreme’ things… but, we went on one of our regular surf weekends to Mawgan Porth last weekend and it turns out THE thing going on locally was The Annual Mawgan Porth Steam Rally… we had to go. There…
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A weekend hot air ballooning?!
As an active kind of company we try and get involved in all kinds of things and will never turn up our nose at doing something a little out of the ordinary…. so when long time pal of the HOFNAR experience Laurence Wigfield asked us to help crew his hot air balloon – we leapt…