One of Scotland’s and the world’s longest established dry ski slopes, at the Loch Insh outdoor activity centre in the Cairngorms National Park, is reported to have surpassed its £45,000 crowdfunding goal required to resurface its slope. The Loch Insh dry slope was first installed in 1988 by the Freshwater family behind the outdoor activity centre. The family have been

Singapore will see a new complex offering skating, surfing, skiing and snowboarding at the end of October. It means that board sport enthusiasts will be able to attempt both winter and summer sports on the same day at the venue. The Ride Side, Trifecta will span over 4,609 sqm on Somerset Road in the island country and is set to

The 4-star Family Hotel Elldus at the small German ski resort of Oberwiesenthal has had a new hybrid ski and tubing slope created for it by Skitrax World. The hotel’s new ski and tubing centre is served by a 30 metre long conveyor lift which accesses about 600 m2 of Tubtrax / Slopetrax mats. Initially a two-lane tubing track will

Quebec’s Mont Tremblant’s, the most visited ski area in Eastern North America, has added a dry slope for summer skiing. Opening on August 18th, Tremblant will be offering the chance to learn to ski or snowboard and carve on a synthetic surface supplied by Italian firm, Neveplast. Two types of surfaces are available in the learning area: a long-fibre mat

For the third consecutive year the world’s elite of freestyle ski met on the roof of CopenHill. The remarkable waste-to-energy green power plant near Copenhagen in Denmark which has a remarkable dry ski slope, the material supplied by Italian firm Neveplast, descending its roof. The over 400 metres long slope ends with a snow park, the location for the now

A non-profit group based in BC, Canada, is the latest to create a year-round freestyle ski jump centre. Silver Star Freestyle, a non-profit organization aiming to promote freestyle skiing, has commissioned the slope. It’s located at the Silver Star ski area has created the 90 metre long jump on a 29-degree slope, with skiers and boarders landing their jump on

Work on a long-planned dry ski slope project at Par near St Austell in Cornwall which got the green light from local councillors with planning permission granted last autumn is currently being delayed from commencing while archaeological checks are carried out.  A spokesperson for the Altitude Snow Park explained, “When we achieved planning a number of pre-commencement conditions were required

Paralympian Anna Turney has taken part in the nationwide ‘Running out of Time’ relay, a 2,661km climate relay from Ben Nevis to Big Ben. Anna skied down  the dry slope at Ackers Adventure near Birmingham in the West Midlands with the baton as part of the first ever British ‘Running out of Time’ Climate Relay, which has seen thousands take

One of the UK’s largest and longest established dry ski slope centres, currently known as the Midlothian Snowsports Centre, has begun work to transform it into a multi-outdoor adventure centre. First established in the early 1960s as the Hillend ski slope, the announcement of a £13.8m transformation of the site to become Destination Hillend was first announced in 2019, with

Skitrax have created a special type of mat designed specifically for use under drag lifts. The company’s Lifttrax mats have been designed to provide a solution where snow cover below drag lifts melts due to exposure to strong sunlight, or high usage, or both. It is designed to work particularly well on steep slopes too, which often have issues holding