If You Go Down To the Woods Today

Today we took a group mountain biking in the tiny mountains and trails of Haldon Forest just outside Exeter. Its an awesome location with something for everyone: wide open trails; single track with switchbacks, berms and whoops to a pretty serious downhill section for the brave/stupid! The scenery is jaw dropping with views over Exeter to the North and Dawlish to the South. The group had a fantastic time and left vowing to come back for some more mud spattered thrills.

We Love Big Dumps!

Went skiing on Dartmooor on Sunday......Awesome; there was so much snow that it could have been on top of Brieriach in the Cairngorms! We hiked in through knee deep drifts to the top of one of the tors then picked a line back down through the rocks for about a kilometre. We're now closely watching the forecast as its due to snow again and if it does we'll be there!

The Good Old Days

This weeks cold snap has plunged us deeper into the coldest winter we have had for over 30 years with the heaviest snowfall in the UK for over 2 decades. But it only seems so extreme because we are not used to it due to the effect on our climate from global warming. Weather like this used happen about once every 5 years but now only happens once every 20! Here at Four Points Adventure we love extreme weather so we will be doing everything we can to combat global warming to help our climate get back to the good old days of regular extreme weather instead of having to wait 20 years to be able to climb ice falls on Dartmoor or go skiing in Cornwall.

Snow Chasers

After watching the weather reports avidly for days we were at last rewarded with heavy snowfall over Cornwall and Devon. We set set off chasing the best snow at 6 am with our skis, snowboards and shovels, travelling through blizzard conditions to Dartmoor; but the snow here was too sparse so we chased the clouds South again finding 15 cm of snow in the South West's newest skiing Mecca: Milton Abbot. After several runs we moved on to the slopes of Launceston where we made fresh tracks before finding the best snow of the day in a field by the A30 on Bodmin Moor.