Latest News & Stuff
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Covid and us…
That bloody virus ruining all our fun. Ha! We shall prevail!! Sounds dramatic doesn’t it, but we shall and this is our current little plan for our summer weekend trips coming up. Firstly – if we have to cancel a trip due to Covid restrictions you’ll get all your money back, no quibbles. If you…
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Ski pass fire sale!
Bonjour team! I can’t believe this whole virus thing is still going on – it’s not funny anymore… we need stuff to look forward to. And so we are pressing ahead with our planning for next winter – but this email isn’t entirely about that. Friday 29th May (This coming Friday!) at 7am they are selling…
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Boardmasters weekend
OMG – Boardmasters is a cool festival. Perched on the clifftop above Watergate Bay this has to be one of the most beautiful, dramatic, epic settings for a music festival. And we are going to be there (7th Aug 2020). Well, at least the Saturday. Which (in my opinion) has the BEST lineup; Kings of…
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Where’s your head at?!
Life can be an arse. Fact. The drudgery of the 9-5, family pressures, a complicated partner, money worries, health worries… LIFE! It’s weird – you can be perfectly fine, everything is going great… but somehow you can just feel MISERABLE! And your head can be your own worst enemy – it’ll blow everything out of…
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All I want for Christmas..
Dear Father Christmas. There are SO many toys I want… obvs I want a new set of skis, a snowboard (one for the park, one for the pow and a split board). I could do with my own surf board (it’s gonna have to be massive because I’m rubbish)… now a bike… don’t get me…
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Ski or board, which is easier to learn?
Ah. The million dollar question. If you speak to keen skiers or snowboarders their answer will almost definitely be biased towards their way of sliding. There still is a (mostly gentle) banter that goes on between skiers and boarders, but frankly as long as you are sliding down a mountain with a smile on your…
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Ready to go off piste? Five top tips…
What’s off piste? I suppose that’s the first question. In short it’s anything that’s not a groomed run. It can be just the little bit off the side or between runs, but it can be the desolate empty beautiful wilderness away from the crowds. It can be wind swept, icy and hard work or it…
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The five most annoying things when travelling.
Travelling (and mostly I’m talking about flying) should be smooth, calm, relaxing, enjoyable… but it’s weird how seemingly little things can end up being the most annoying thing in the world. I’m sure we all have different things that annoy the hell out of us (please do add them in the comments below), but here…
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Your mates are RUBBISH!
Well, they are a bit aren’t they? At uni we all had a big squad of pals through lectures or through sports teams and other clubs. Everyone was always up for doing stuff; going out, going away, living life to the max. I get loads of people saying they wish they could go away and…