The long awaited redevelopment of Sheffield Ski Village, one of Europe and the UK’s former leading dry ski centres, is still due to go ahead according to its developer. Alastair Gosling, of Extreme, told the Sheffield Star newspaper that the company now hoped to open the £25m project on the former Ski Village site in two years’ time in 2023.

A new centre which allows visitors to try skiing and surfing at the same location, side by side, is set to open this May in Oklahoma City. The existing Riversport complex which already offers Olympic and Paralympic standard white water rafting and rowing as well as an artificial wave pool for surfers is to install a SkiMachine from Alpine Engineering

Austria’s Schladming ski area is set to unveil a new ‘startpark’ this spring at the resort’s Reiteralm ski area, already a favoured destination among ski and snowboard cross specialists who come from all over the world to train at the existing Cross Park there. The new startpark will have an added dimension that other training facilities do not however –