Adventures for beginners & families

Looking for something special, specific or slightly insane? Then you’re in the right place: Our speciality is high quality bespoke adventure, so get in touch to plan your bespoke adventure.

Explore the tabs just below for some ideas, click the explore more button below to see more details about our adventure, or get in touch to discuss your dream adventure!

Adrenaline, adventure and a beautiful river! Our beginners white water kayak trips are a customer favourite, and a fantastic day out. Suitable for complete beginners, we supply all the kit and teach you the basic skill to navigate this beginner friendly section of the river Dart. Our expert guides will ensure you have a blast whilst staying safe. Expect laughter, some challenge, a sense of achievement, maybe a little swim and some new skills that might have you hooked on white water!

Experience south devon from a completely different perspective; our estuary and coastal tours take you along beautiful tidal water and rugged coastlines, where you’ll glide past dramatic cliffs, peaceful inlets and wildlife rich blue spaces. It’s relaxed and scenic, perfect for first timers and those who just can’t stay away! We bring all the equipment, and provide you with a safety brief, the basic skills to make your paddling smooth and local knowledge. This unique experience is great for families, friends and anyone who loves being on the water! Choose between a canoe, kayak or paddleboard to tailor your trip.

Ready to scale Dartmoor’s rugged tors, the hard way? We offer a whole range of climbing, abseiling, weaselling and scrambling adventures. Suitable for beginners of all ages and those who’ve climbed before, a day on Dartmoor’s granite is a challenging and fun day out.

• Climbing, uses ropes to keep you safe as you ascend a near vertical route up a tor.
• Abseiling, starts at the top and you control your descent, feeling very much like a spy. Under expert supervision to keep you safe of course.
• Weaselling is a bit like caving above ground, you’ll explore a tor by squeezing through small holes and gaps, sidling through caves and climbing over stacked boulders. You’ll get a little grubby and discover there’s a lot more to Dartmoor’s tor than you thought.
• Scrambling is a kind of hybrid between walking and scrambling. More on that below.

We provide experienced and qualified instructors who will bring all the kit you need, set up before you get there and look after you all day, ensuring your safety and teaching you some new skills and knowledge along the way.

A taste of mountaineering on Dartmoor! Our beginner friendly ridge scramble challenge will test your head for heights and take you on a true adventure. Our experienced guides will show you the route across this exposed ridge and ensure you keep your footing. Scrambling sits somewhere between walking and climbing – some sections are walkable, some sections you’ll need your hands and some short sections will feel more like climbing. No previous experience is needed, but an adventurous spirit is a must!

Curious about paddlesports, but not sure if its for you? Not sure if the kids would like a chilled our journey? Our play-based taster sessions are perfect for younger kids and families, we can be based at a beach or riverbank for lots of fun, games and falling in. Perfect for a first try and paddling! We can provide, canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards as well as all the safety equipment to go with them.

Dartmoor mountain biking is some of the finest in the uk, and bikes are a fantastic way to explore south devon. For our guided mountain bike rides our expert coaches use their local knowledge to choose a route tailored to you and your aims. We offer mountain biking to riders of all levels, if you’ve got your own bike then we can go anywhere. But as we don’t yet hold a fleet of bikes, if you need a bike we can arrange hire for you at one of our local trail centres. Mountain biking is a great way to get some fresh air and exercise with a healthy dose of challenge and the buzz of achievement when its all over.

Not just a day trip, something more. Unplugged, wild and peaceful. Wild camping is the best way to reset and recover from the modern world! Combined with walking, paddling or mtbing a camp can turn a day trip into an epic expedition.